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1991
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PEOPLE Sydney Gillibrand UK NEW YEAR'S HONOURS LIST The chairman of British Aero space, along with several other figures in the British aviation industry, is the recipient of an honour in this year's UK New Year Honours list. Sydney Gillibrand has been awarded a CBE, while Robert Jackson, the director of forward planning and strategy at British Aerospace Dynamics becomes an OBE. Ron Howard, the chair man of GEC Avionics, becomes a CBE. Dennis Buchanan MBE, Chairman of Papua New Guinea's Talair, has received a knighthood for services to Papua New Guinea aviation. Other new Orders of the Brit ish Empire include S Grier, the managing director of Loganair; D B Nisbet, deputy managing director, GEC-Ferranti Defence Systems; J M Rainbow, manag ing director of Monarch Aircraft Engineering; John Taylor, edi tor emeritus fane's All the World's Aircraft; F Hand, pro gramme manager at Lucas Aero space; and P I Pavey, senior field service engineer at Martin Baker. Martin T Peters, the director of the Royal Aerospace Estab lishment, Farnborough, has been awarded a CBE. ALLIED-SIGNAL AEROSPACE George Gartner has been ap pointed president of the Bendix Guidance Systems division of Allied-Signal Aerospace. He re places Bernard O'Connor, who is retiring. Gartner was previ ously general manager of the division's Cheshire, Connecti cut, operation. BEECHCRAFT Robert Welton has been named vice-president at Beech Aircraft and senior vice-president — finance and administration for Beech Holdings, a wholly- owned Beech Aircraft subsidiary managing the company's fixed- base operations.He joined Beech in 1984, after working as chief financial officer for Hangar One. ANSETT Capt Mike Terrell, formerly Ansett's assistant general man ager — operations, has been appointed joint deputy general manager alongside the existing holder of the post, Alan Yates. Terrell will focus on operational aspects of the carrier. Yates' responsibilities include the sprawling ?regional network and oversight of Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services. FORUM FOR AIR CARGO Robert Arendal, the senior vice- president of sales, marketing and cargo services for Cargolux, has been elected chairman of the International Forum for Air Cargo. Danish-born Arendal is the first non-American foreign- based airline executive to be elected to the position of chair man of the airfreight industry authority. Peter McHugh PAN AMERICAN Peter McHugh has been elected chief operating officer of Pan Am. Formerly vice-president, marketing and sales for the company, McHugh continues as executive vice-president, in the office of the chairman at the parent company Pan Am Corpo ration. Also reporting to McHugh are subsidiary opera tions Pan Am Shuttle and Pan Am Express. FLIGHTSAFETY Bruno Challe has been ap pointed to the new position of general manager at FlightSafety's Le Bourget Learn ing Centre. For the last five years he has been vice-president of Air France's flight operations. Before that he was in charge of the carrier's Boeing 747 training centre. ITT GILFILLAN Patrick Pollock is to take up the new post of vice-president and director of civilian air traffic control programmes at ITT Gil- fillan. The appointment is part of a move to break into the civilian air traffic control mar ket. Pollock was formerly vice- president and director of busi ness development. That position has been assumed by Nick Riley. He was formerly vice- president and director of Gilfil- lan's integrated systems busi ness area. QANTAS The Australian Governmnet has upgraded the position of Qantas chairman Bill Dix, to that of executive chairman. Dix has been non-executive, part-time chairman since December, 1989. He retired recently as chairman of Ford's Australian manufacturing and sales corpo rations. The expanded role would, in part, cover activities related to the planned partial privatisation of Qantas. KELLY JOHNSON Clarence L (Kelly) Johnson died on 21 December, aged 80, following a long illness. During his career at Lockheed he headed a design team that produced some of the world's most advanced aircraft, ranging from America's first production jet fighter, the XP-80, to the SR-71 Blackbird (pictured above). The son of Swedish immigrants, Johnson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1933.~-After joining Lockheed he became chief research engineer in 1938. For 30 years he headed Lockheed's Advanced Development Company, better known as the Skunk Works, playing a pivotal role in the design of more than 40 aircraft. The U-2, one of his earlier designs, was the first aircraft capable of sustained flight above 60,000 ft while the F-104 Starfighter was the first production aircraft to fly at twice the speed of sound. A close colleague of Johnson, Brig Gen Leo Geary, said that Kelly "...never stopped trying. To him, the biggest failure iniffe was the failure to try. He was willing to stick his neck out and risk his reputation to do things others said couldn't be done." He received three Presidential citations, including the Medal of Freedom, the highest civil honour the President of the United States can bestow. Johnson retired as a corporate senior vice-president in 1975. He left the Lockheed Board in 1980. At the time of his death Johnson was still a senior adviser to Lockheed corporate management. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 9 - 15 January, 1991 23
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