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Honeywell
Don Schwanz is to become president of Honeywell's Phoenix-based Space and Aviation Control business. He succeeds John Dewant who plans to retire on 31 December. Schwanz, now vice- president and general manager of Air Transport Systems joined Honeywell in 1979 and has held several management positions in the commercial and ...
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Recommendations for improved safety
THE HUMAN-FACTORS TEAM makes a large number of recommendations for action by the FAA and other agencies. There are eight main headings, but some basic demands, like the need for better information-exchange on incidents, is repeated in varying forms under several of them. The principle recommendations for each heading include: ...
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Roger Green
Professor Roger Green BSc, FRAeS, AFBPsS, died on 25 September, 1996, following a long illness, aged 48. As head of the UK Defence Research Agency's Centre for Human Sciences, he had been a world leader in bringing aircrew human-factors (HF) awareness to the civil and military front-line, including making HF ...
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Re-site the wings on the A3XX
Sir - I support Noel Falconer's plea (Flight International, 18 - 24 September, P49) for a revised wing location for the new Airbus A3XX proposal. I have given lectures to branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society, in which I presented a design for a shoulder-wing, 600-1,000 seat Global ...
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Recorder retrieval: technology exists
Sir - In response to the letter "Make recorders easier to recover" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P60), I would point out that there have been automatically deployable flight-data/cockpit-voice recorders on the market for more than 25 years. They have been fitted to every type of airframe - from ...
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Hong Kong's CAA is independent
Sir - While acknowledging the past help and advice received over the years from the UK Civil Aviation Authority, I should like to make it absolutely clear that the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department is by no means an offshoot of the UK CAA as reported (Flight International, 11-17 September). ...
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Experience in Indonesia is well worth while
Sir - In his letter "Looking at the priorities" (Flight International, 14-20 August, P40) Frans Verheijen aired his opinion on the Indonesian N250 project. It appears that Mr Verheijen now has a well-paid job in his native country (the Netherlands), thanks to invaluable experience gained in Indonesia, but ...
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ASTAAS closes down
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has shut down ASTA Aircraft Services (ASTAAS) after failing to find a buyer for the loss-making maintenance operation. ASTAAS, which employed around 450 people, was one of two units left over after the 1995 privatisation of the ASTA aerospace business in 1995. The other unit, ...
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Loral acquires AT&T Skynet Services
LORAL SPACE & Communications has agreed to buy AT&T's Skynet Satellite Services business for $712.5 million (£475 million) in cash. The deal includes AT&T's network of Telstar C- and Ku-band communications-satellites, and is Loral's first acquisition since the company disposed of its aerospace and defence businesses to Lockheed ...
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Hawaiian offer
Hawaiian Airlines reports that its August share offer has been fully taken up by investors, raising more than $39 million. President Bruce Noble says that the infusion of new cash is "the last element needed to complete the rebirth" of the 67-year-old airline. Source: Flight International
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Sabre sale
American Airlines parent AMR has set terms for the flotation of a stake in its Sabre computer-reservation-system subsidiary, which prices the sale at up to around $460 million. The public offering has been tentatively scheduled for October. Source: Flight International
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Daimler shuffle
The Daimler-Benz group is expected to announce a corporate reorganisation which could see control of subsidiaries centralised at its Stuttgart headquarters in Germany. Under such a scheme Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) would lose its independent board. According to unconfirmed reports in the press, another option would be to shift all responsibilities ...
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Airport growth
World airport passenger traffic grew 6.6% over the first half of the year, helped by the booming North American market, where numbers grew by more than 7%. Atlanta Hartsfield, boosted by the Georgia city's hosting of the Olympic Games in the summer, was the fastest- growing of all the major ...
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Aviall
Aviall has completed the divestment of non-core operations with the sale of its fastener-distribution business to Maple Leaf Aerospace. Aviall has progressively sold off its engine overhaul businesses to focus on parts distribution and inventory locator services. The unit is expected to become part of Maple Leaf's Tri-Star Aerospace manufacturing ...
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Samsung moves slowly over Fokker relaunch
Samsung Aerospace says that it needs to clear several major hurdles before it will be in position to reach an agreement with the receivers of Fokker and relaunch the bankrupt Dutch aircraft manufacturer. According to officials close to the negotiations, the continuing talks centre on reaching a series ...
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South African Airways puts 777 order on hold and considers options
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS (SAA) says that it has put its Boeing 777 contract on hold and is reviewing the order, which could see it reduced in size or switched to a lease rather than a purchase. SAA placed orders in December 1995 for four 777-200s and one Boeing ...
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Lufthansa airmotive
Lufthansa Technik is considering taking a majority stake in Airmotive Ireland, the Aer Lingus-owned engine-overhaul plant near Dublin. Aer Lingus admits that the transaction is "under review", but says that the deal requires boardroom approval from both companies. Source: Flight International
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Northrop Grumman gets E-8C approval
PRODUCTION OF 19 Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack RadarSystem (JSTARS) aircraft has been approved by the US Department of Defense (DoD), despite a last-minute bid by the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) to block full-rate production. Defence undersecretary Paul Kaminski approved production on 26 September, despite ...
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Shorts wins GKN order
Shorts has won a £10 million order from GKN Westland to supply the engine nacelle, stub wing and horizontal stabilator for the British Army Air Corps' 67 WAH-64 Apache helicopters. Shorts is also to team with Lockheed Martin to produce Hellfire II and Longbow Hellfire missiles for the WAH-64. ...
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Orbital
US space and information systems company Orbital Sciences, of Dulles, Virginia, has appointed Rob Strain executive vice-president and general manager of the electronics and sensor-system division. He was most recently a group vice-president for finance and manufacturing. Source: Flight International