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PEOPLE Ian Tunnacliffe • SPEEDWING Ian Tunnacliffe has been appointed business manager of airline services for Speedwing. He will be responsible for the new passenger line of business. Tunnacliffe joins Speedwing from Madrid-based CRS Amadeus, where he was manager, airlines sales and service. • RED ARROWS The new leader of the Royal Air Force Red Arrows aerobatics team is Sqn Ldr Simon Meade. He flew gliders with die Air Training Corps' (ATC) 618 Volunteer Gliding School before joining die RAF in 1979. Meade takes over from Sqn Ldr John Rands, anoth er former ATC Cadet. • RoSEC David Anthony will become director and general manager of Rolls Smiths Engine Controls (RoSEC) in January, replacingj V Hill, who becomes director of business improvement for the Industrial Power Group. Anthony returns from a four-year attach ment to BMW Rolls-Royce Aero Engines where he led engine-con trol-systems design and develop ment for the BR700 series. • RAA David Lotterer has joined the US Regional Airline Association, of Washington DC, as vice-president FLIGHT DIRECTORIES The Aviation Reference Books Flight International Directories answer alt your questions concerning aviation and air transport in Europe. Flight Directory UK 199S/96 AVAILABLE NOW Flight Directory Europe 1995/96 AVAILABLE NOW Flight Directory UK 1997/98 AVAILABLE MARCH Postage included for UK. Add £6 for Europe and £12 rest of World Fax or post your order to: Flight International Directories PO Box 1315, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 IPU Tel: +44 (0) 1707 665151 Fax: +44 (0) 1707 660330 Cheques please on UK Bank orVisa/Barclay/Mastercard/Amex £48 £60 £64 of technical services. He previous ly served for 12 years as director of airworthiness and technical stan dards at the Air Transport As sociation in Washington. • LOCKHEED Robert Trice has been appointed vice-president for international business development at Lockheed Martin, based in Bethesda, Maryland. He succeeds Michael Smith who has been named presi dent of Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems. • DUNCAN Karl Detweiler has been appointed to the newly created position of accessory product-development and technical-service representative for Duncan Aviation, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He will provide technical support to customers and assist in new product/service development. • OXLEY AVIONICS Brian Thomson has been appointed international sales man ager for night-vision-systems sup plier Oxley Avionics, of Cumbria, UK. Formerly with Ferranti and then GEC Marconi Avionics, he will play a key role in developing Oxley's world-wide business. • GAMA The US General Aviation Manu facturers Association (GAMA) has elected Edward Bolen as its new president. Bolen has been GAMAs Nigel Atkinson • DELOITTE Nigel Atkinson, a partner at Deloitte & Touche, has moved to the Crawley office. He will lead the firm's aviation practice in theUK. Atkinson is leading the Deloitte & Touche team advis ing Alitalia on its planned recap italisation and approval by the European Commission. senior vice-president and general counsel. GAMA also elected Fred Bredenbackas the 1997 chairman. • PROS US airline-management-system supplier PROS Strategic Solut ions, of Houston, Texas, has ap pointed Sam Coats president and chief executive. He was most recently a senior vice-president at Continental Airlines. • CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL Air Commodore Gavin Mackay (above right) has taken over from Commodore Simon Bostock (above left) as commandant of the Central Flying School at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. In 1982, as executive officer of No 1 (F) Squadron, McKay led the second wave of RAF British Aerospace Harriers to the Falkland Islands, short ly before the Argentinean surrender. Hehasalsoledthe RAF Germany Harrier Force on Red Flag exercises and on field deployments. 50 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 27 November - 3 December 1996
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