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1978
1978 - 0003.PDF
7 fLIGHT International, 7 January (978 Sensor New York will have daily British Airways Concorde services by January 31. The daily Washington service has been reduced to two <i week. Air France is planniwg twice-dailies to New York from Paris within eight months. British Airways plans to do twice-dailies to New York ultimately, but is hoping to introduce the Braniff inter change to Texas from Washington next spring. Compensation for aircraft modifica tions is turning more on whether an aircraft type certificate is actually withdrawn bi/ the authori ties, and mot just on whether the aircraft is grounded for mods. Warranties are heavily qualified in all contracts, covering repairs in tftfr first or second years; the cost after that WtBy be shared pro rata up to 20,000hr. Some contracts pro vide for labour, but no contract yet signed provides for lost airline revenue. The International Air Transport Association is reviewing its glossary of standard ATC communications terms. The Icao glossary is now years out of date, having been written "before radar." Many of Europe's 28 airworthy North American Harvards will take part in a two-day meet at RAF Bassingbourne next May. The next Greenhorn Common Air Tattoo (June 23-24, 1979) will mark a quarter-century of Lockheed Hercules service. It is hoped that participating C-130 operators will be able to bring aircraft from their national museums. There will be a Hercules operators' symposium at RAF Lyneham to coincide with the tattoo. The airworthiness and safety divi sions of the UK Civil Aviation AutKority are becoming in creasingly concerned about the heavy overheads of CAA airports, air traffic control, economic regula tion and other activities which con tribute little or nothing to air worthiness. Visits by senior CAA safety professionals to industry are now charged at up to £30 an hour, and the tendency of industry is to decline the personal contacts which, in the old ARB days, made the real contributions to safety. There is a strong feeling that the safety side should be "hived off" from, the CAA before morale and standards decline. British Aerospace: the new order ON nationalisation last April, British Aerospace was ordered to present to the government within six months a new commercial organisation. This was duly done during October, and on January 1 the new dispositions took effect, as detailed here and overleaf. Those inclined to nostalgia will be sad to see the final disappearance of the names British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Avia tion from official use in any part of British Aerospace, though customers can continue to contact broadly the same people and offices as before. Those keen on slick organisation will be disturbed to note that the combina tion of central control and maximum decentralisation demanded by the government has led to complete boards appointed for the Groups and for all the eight divisions. This re organisation probably marks the end of the long process of concentration begun with the first aircraft-company mergers early in the 1960s. The reorganisation is accompanied by the legal and commercial actions necessary to conduct business formally in the names of the new divisions and groups. Subsidiary companies in Australia and the USA (see story opposite) have already been re-formed British Aerospace to match the new organisation. Others can be expected to follow. Main board Chairman, Lord Beswick; deputy chair man (marketing strategy), A. Green wood; director of corporate strategy and planning, Sir Peter Fletcher; finan cial director, B. E. Friend; technical director, J. T. Stamper. Board members, L. W. Buck (industrial relations policy), F. W. Page (chairman and chief execu tive, Aircraft Group), E. G. Rubython (deputy chief executive, Aircraft Group). Part-time board members, D. O. Gladwin, Dr A. W. Pearce. Group organisation charts and divisional boards overleaf Corporation Board Chairman .Secretary and legal adviser Corporate strategy and planning Deputy chairman | Marketing strategy Industrial relations Chief executive aircraft group Deputy chief executive aircraft group Weybridge- Bristol division Group board I Scottish division Hatfield- Chester division Kingston- Brough division I Warton division Aircraft Group Manchester division Chief executive dynamics group "f- Group board Hatfield- Lostock division Stevenage- Bristol division Dynamics Group
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