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UNC
Engine and component company UNC, of Annapolis, Maryland, has named Patricia Hart director of materials for all UNC Accessory Services sites, which provide overhaul and repair for airlines and fixed-base operators. She was formerly with BellSouth Mobility in Atlanta, Georgia and also spent 14 years with General Electric. Weldon Walshe ...
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Cessna
Bill Buckles has been appointed vice-president and general manager of Cessna Aircraft's McCauley Accessory division, of Vandalia, Ohio. Buckles, who has been with McCauley since 1947, has been general manager of the propeller and accessory-manufacturing company since July 1990. Source: Flight International
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American
American Airlines, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Michael Smith managing director of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, based at London Heathrow Airport, UK. Smith, who is now managing director of western-division sales, replaces Peter Bowler, who is to return to Fort Worth as managing director of ...
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Serco
UK airport and air-traffic-control management company Serco IAL, of Southall, Middlesex, has appointed Edward Montgomery deputy managing director. Montgomery, president and chief executive of Serco Aviation Services, the company's Canadian arm, will be temporarily based in the UK. Steven Kavanagh becomes general manager of recently established Serco Aviation Services in ...
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ASF
Najeeb Halaby has been appointed chairman of the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air Safety Foundation (ASF) Board of Visitors. He is a former Administrator of the US Federal Aviation Administration as well as an ex-chief executive of Pan American World Airways. Source: Flight International
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GASCO
John Campbell, an avionics chartered engineer and a director of Three Point Flying, has been appointed chief executive of the General Aviation Safety Council (GASCO) of Rochester, Kent, UK. He replaces Ron Gadd, who has retired. John Stewart-Smith becomes editor of GASCo's Flight Safety Bulletin, taking over from John Ward ...
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Technology aids are a comfort
Technology aids are a comfort Sir - I am perplexed as to the state of flight in, which Capt. Bill Pike achieves "full back stick" on his Boeing (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 November, P64). Perhaps the captain is an exponent of the "snatch" rotation technique on ...
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Pilot fatigue: no simple answers
Sir - The editorial "Regulatory fatigue" (Flight International, 1-7 November), augmented by pilots' views on P8, permits the reader only two possible conclusions. The first is that pilots in different parts of the world have different physiological characteristics as indicated by the fatigue levels ascribed to them by ...
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Alcatel satellites
US company WorldSpace has raised $650 million capital to purchase three communications satellites from Alcatel Espace, to provide worldwide digital radio programming. The satellites, called the AfriStar, CaribStar and AsiaStar, will be launched in 1998-9. Source: Flight International
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Iridium offer
After it's aborted $300 million debt offering, Motorola's Iridium world wide, hand-held mobile telephone, satellite-system organisation has invited individual countries to take a direct ownership stake in the venture. Source: Flight International
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Australian bid
The Australian Space Council has proposed to its Government an A$94.6 million ($68 million), four-year space plan, including the development of a commercial spaceport. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Martin wins
Lockheed Martin is to upgrade the visual systems on simulators used to train US Air Force special-operations crews. The upgrades are part of the US company's new five-year, $146 million, Mission Training Support System (MTSS) contract for the special-forces training centre at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. Four Lockheed Martin Compu-Scene ...
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Gripen decision
Saab has selected Silicon Graphics (SGI) and SEOS Displays to supply the visual system for an engineering simulator to be used in development of advanced and export versions of the JAS39 Gripen lightweight fighter. UK company SEOS will supply a 3m-diameter dome display, while Saab has selected SGI's "next-generation" image ...
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Chinese training
McDonnell Douglas has signed a letter of intent with China Northern Airlines (CNA) for assistance in setting-up and operation of a new 3,000m3 flight-crew-training centre in the city of Dalian in northeast China. Source: Flight International
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Horizon presentation
Senior NATO representatives have attended a flight demonstration of Eurocopter's Horizon battlefield surveillance system, based on the AS.532 Cougar helicopter at Marignana, near Marseilles. NATO is considering purchasing such a system. The first of two Horizon systems is due to be delivered to the French army early in 1996. ...
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Hawkeyed decision
The French National Assembly's defence committee has defeated a finance committee proposal to cancel a planned Fr1.8 billion purchase of two Northrop Grumman E-C2 Hawkeye early-warning aircraft for use by the French navy. The finance committee had recommended the purchase of an additional one or two Boeing E-3F Sentry airborne ...
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X-31 crash
A NASA mishap-investigation board has concluded that an accumulation of ice in or on the unheated pilot-static system was the root cause of the crash of its X-31 experimental aircraft at Edwards AFB, California, on 19 January. The NASA board says that the build-up of ice blocked the small tube ...
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Shuttle docking
The Space Shuttle Atlantis, making its 15th flight on mission STS 74, docked successfully with the Russian space station, the Mir 1 on 15 November, three days after its launch from the Kennedy Space Centre. Source: Flight International