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Keeping promises
Emma Kelly/London The in-flight-entertainment (IFE) industry has undergone a radical change this year, with the leading hardware providers finally conceding that they are guilty of over-promising and under-delivering to their airline customers. After years of trying to meet airline requests for ever-more ambitious IFE applications, the makers have ...
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A 'super jumbo' by any other name could fit the bill
Sir - I read with interest the article "MDC flies new concept demonstrator" (Flight International, 13-19 August, P26), about the 6%-scale model of a blended-wing-body aircraft (which should be capable of carrying up to 800 passengers) designed, built and flown for McDonnell Douglas (MDC) by Stanford University, California. ...
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EU Single-engine operations
Sir - I believe that your readers, the industry and the European Commission (EC) should be made aware that the Executive Committee of the UK Civil Aviation Authority intends to propose an amendment to the Air Navigation Order (ANO) (No2). This is in clear breach of EC Regulations, according to ...
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Missing the bandwagon?
The Jospin Government is to reveal its strategy for French aerospace which will also determine the fate of Europe Julian Moxon/PARIS At the end of this month, Lionel Jospin's new socialist Government is scheduled to reveal its plans for the re-organisation of France's still largely state-owned aerospace ...
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Hughes Arabia
Hughes Arabia, based in Riyadah, Saudi Arabia, an affiliate of Hughes Middle East Operations, which is a business area of Hughes Information Systems, has appointed retired US Air Force Lt Gen James (Jim) Record president. He was with the USAF for 35 years before joining Hughes this year, where he ...
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British International
Seen here (centre) is Neil Calvert, engineering manager of helicopter repair and overhaul company British International, of Aberdeen, Scotland, with the successful applicants for the Helicopter Engineering Apprenticeship Training Scheme initiated by British International and Air Service Training (Engineering). Seen with him at a recent "open evening" (left to right) ...
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Second Boeing Delta launches ACE
NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) on 26 August, using a Delta 2 rocket. On 21 August, the first Delta 2 launch by Boeing since its acquisition of McDonnell Douglas placed five craft into orbit. The first of the two Delta 7960 two-stage models was launched from ...
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EOS array arrives at Lockheed Martin
TRW has delivered to Lockheed Martin the solar array for NASA's Mission to Planet Earth spacecraft, the Earth Observing System, EOS AM-1 is planned for launch in June 1998. The 5,400kg craft will carry five synergistic instruments to study the Earth's clouds, water vapour, aerosol particles, trace gases and other ...
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Abu Dhabi signs Hughes for $1.2 billion Thuraya deal
Hughes Space and Communications has won a $1.2 billion contract to build and launch a communications-satellite system, including the ground segment of the installation, for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications of Abu Dhabi. One ground spare will also be constructed. The satellite, to be launched in 2000, will extend mobile-communications ...
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PanAmSat PAS 5 is put in orbit
Tim Furniss/LONDON A Russian Proton K booster, operated by ILS International Launch Services, placed PanAmSat's PAS 5 communications satellite into orbit on 28 August after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch brings to 16 the number of PanAmSat communications satellites in orbit. The constellation also ...
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Insurance consortium
China has established its first space-insurance consortium consisting of nine insurance companies, including People's Insurance of China, China Pacific Insurance and Pingan Insurance. It will complement its commercial-launcher service, which received a boost on 20 August with the successful launch of the Long March 3B, China's most powerful geostationary-orbit launcher. ...
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It's not only the young who suffer
Sir - I would like to sympathise with Christopher Stone and the difficulties he is encountering (Letters, Flight International, 20-26 August, P51), but I would like to put the older viewpoint. I am a 37-year-old professional person, wanting to fly commercially. Being driven, committed, enthusiastic and mature, I ...
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AIAA
E C "Pete" Aldridge has become the new president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He was president of the electronic-systems division of McDonnell Douglas until 1992 and has since been president of The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit-making organisation dedicated to science and technology transfer. ...
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Meggitt
UK aerospace and electronics group Meggitt, of Wimborne, Dorset, has appointed Mike Farge managing director of its new subsidiary, Meggitt Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. He was formerly group director of marketing. Richard Needham, a former Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, is named a special ...
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Lufthansa
Dieter Heinen has been named senior vice-president for Northern and Eastern Europe at the Lufthansa Passenger Airline business unit, based in London, UK. He was previously senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Claus Tilgner has become managing director of Lufthansa Shannon Turbine Technologies, the Irish subsidiary of ...
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Barnes
Cedric Beckett has been appointed president of Bristol, Connecticut-based components manufacturer Barnes Aerospace OEM and Advanced Fabrications. Before joining the Barnes Group in 1994, Barnes was with Hamilton Standard for eight years. Marian Acker-Quinn has been named group controller. She was formerly corporate manager of accounting. ...
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AIAA
John Bernard has been appointed vice-president of sales, eastern region, and Ted Malys vice-president of sales, central region, at US carrier American Trans Air (ATA). Bernard was previously director of transportation at Boston, Massachusetts-based TNT Vacations. Malys joined ATA in 1982 as regional sales manager. Source: ...