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Singapore Airlines SIA has released the first publicly-available video clip of Airbus s A380 evacuation trial that took place atits Finkenwerder facility outside Hamburg, Germany on 26 March.The two minute video sequence below , appeared on the SIA sA380 microsite overnight. The clip shows preparation for the test, in which 853 volunteer passengers and 20 crew members left the aircraft within 78s, as well as exclusive infra-red footage from the monitor cameras inside the hangar. The tests were carried out to meet European and US certiufication requirements. Flightgroup editor Kieran Daly was the only journalist onboard the trial. Read his first hand blog account here. adidas samba og Airbus originally showed the video clip at internal air max 1 meetings last month, but declined requests to make it public. flightglobal filed requests under European Union access to information regulations w yeezy mx ith the European Aviation Safety Agency EASA , for whom the video sequence was made, to bring the video sequence into the public domain. It is not clear whether this prompted the manufacturer to release the clip. 漏 Airbus S.A.S. 2006Source: Flight InternationalTopicsAirframersOps safety Related articles News Boeing trims Q1 loss to $31m amid more aircraft deliveries Sudm Lisa Cholodenko named LAFF guest director
As Screen Internationals Cannes critics jury grid approaches its 40th year, Nikki Baughan looks back on its origins and impact for filmmakers, industry and the festival.Starting life in 1984, decades before the phenomenon of social media-fuelled hot takes, Screen Internationals Cannes critics jury grid could be considered ahead of its time. It was the first and remains the only English-language daily trade to collate critical opinion by an assembled jury of international film critics who watch and rate every single film screening in that years Competition section. The resulting grid continues to provide festival颅goers 鈥?and, more specifically, industry readers 鈥?with an immediate overview of professional reactions to key films.While the grid has since evolved into a trusted resource, first reactions were not quite so positive. Initially I recall there being mixed feelings about it, certainly among critics, recalls Terry Ilott, Screen Internationals editor in 1984. Who wants their considered and carefully weighted judgments reduced to just one, two or three stars And who wants to bump into an irate filmmaker on the Croisette There were also misgivings in the creativ owala website e community, he continues, not just because all their hard work was to be extolled or dismissed in so rudimentary a fashion but because it amplified the spirit of competition, which was owala website bad enough already. The festival authorities werent pl owala website eased; there was the small matter of the influence it might exert ov