Flying high in style : Sabena technics & Ora-Ïto unveil Aero System

Le Bour­get, France, June 2011 — ORA-ÏTO and SABE­NA TECH­NICS
Af­ter over a year of prod­uct de­vel­op­ment, Sabe­na tech­nics, a key play­er in the air­craft main­te­nance sec­tor, and ORA-ÏTO, pre­sent at Le Bour­get ‘Aero Sys­tem’, a new con­cept that brings to the air­craft de­sign in­dus­try a new ex­pe­ri­ence of lux­u­ry.

For Sabe­na tech­nics, Ora-Ito imagined an in­no­va­tive and con­cep­tu­al ap­proach for air­craft in­te­ri­or de­sign. ‘‘Line fol­lows func­tion‘‘. The con­cept, based on ORA-ÏTO’s prin­ci­ple of ‘‘Sim­plex­i­ty’’, or the artis­tic abil­i­ty to give an ob­ject with com­plex func­tions a sim­ple ap­pear­ance, con­sists of lines and strips where the flow leads you na­t­u­ral­ly to ded­i­cat­ed func­tions. This ef­fect cre­ates a dy­nam­ic and el­e­gant lay­ered land­s­cape. Func­tio­n­al lines in­clude seat­ings, lights, win­dows, ta­bles – lines that all have log­i­cal ma­te­rial choic­es. In this par­tic­u­lar case the de­sign is pre­sent­ed in an A319 CJ, how­ev­er it can be adapt­ed to all air­craft types, de­pend­ing on cus­tomers’ in­di­vi­d­u­al needs. The in­n­er-body of the air­craft, one unique fluid de­sign, gives a com­plete feel­ing of open­ness across the air­craft and through­out its lounge, meet­ing and rest ar­eas. In line with his time­less and uni­ver­sal style, ORA-ÏTO has de­vel­oped the air­craft’s en­tire struc­ture with an ar­chi­tec­tu­ral feel us­ing mo­d­ules, which in­te­grate with per­fect har­mony. The de­sign­er imagined, along­side Sabe­na tech­nics’ en­gi­neers to en­sure a per­fect fit, in line with the avi­a­tion in­dus­try’s ri­g­or­ous re­quire­ments, a refined and un­c­lut­tered en­vi­ron­ment com­bined with com­fort. Us­ing few­er el­e­ments in an op­ti­mised man­u­fac­tur­ing in­fras­truc­ture, the en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact will be less im­por­tant than con­ven­tio­n­al air­craft in­te­ri­or com­ple­tion. This is the vi­sion of ra­tio­n­alised lux­u­ry by Ora-Ito ap­plied to air­craft in­te­ri­or de­sign.

Found­ed in 1968, Sabe­na tech­nics is a lead­ing in­de­pen­dent provider of main­te­nance ser­vices to civ­il and mil­i­tary air­craft op­er­a­tors. With over 3000 per­sons across 17 sites world­wide, the group op­er­ates un­der the brands Sabe­na tech­nics, Sabe­na tech­nics train­ing, and Bar­field in the USA. Ful­ly aware of how im­por­tant re­li­a­bil­i­ty and punc­tu­al­i­ty are to op­er­a­tors, Sabe­na tech­nics’ high­ly qual­i­fied work­force of­fers you a broad spec­trum of per­so­n­al­ized sup­port. Our ser­vices are or­ganized in­to five ma­jor ac­tiv­i­ties : Air­frame ser­vices, which in­cludes the ac­tiv­i­ty VIP com­ple­tion, by Sabe­na tech­nics, Com­po­nent ser­vices, In­te­grat­ed ser­vices, Mil­i­tary ser­vices and Train­ing ser­vices.
Ded­i­cat­ed fa­cil­i­ties
In-House De­sign Of­fice En­gi­neer­ing (STC) • Cabin In­te­ri­or Work­shops • Elec­tri­cal Kits and Struc­tu­ral Fitt­ings Back­shops.