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Isn't it time to clean up space?
Sir - Continued space activity has necessitated the establishment of a catalogue of known space debris, which should be heeded by trajectory and spaceflight planners. Even a fleck of paint colliding with, for example, a spacewalking astronaut would, we are told, be fatal. Mass times velocity says it all. ...
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Bond Helicopters
Bond Helicopters has formed a new division, a marketing and customer-services department. Peter Bond (centre), who has been commercial director of Bond's Australian sister company, Lloyd Helicopters for the past 30 months, is to head the new venture. Roger Stent (right), Bond's sales and marketing manager for three years, returns ...
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Ghana Airways
Ghana Airways has appointed Kofi Esson regional manager for the UK and Ireland. Esson, who joined the carrier in 1986 from Pan American Airways, was formerly sales manager, based in capital Accra. Source: Flight International
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Texas
David Welp has been promoted to president of Dallas, Texas-based defence-systems supplier Texas Instruments' Systems Group. Welp, with Texas Instruments since 1978, was formerly executive vice-president and deputy at the Systems Group and manager of the Advanced Programs division. Source: Flight International
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Air France
National carrier Air France has appointed Anne Veyssi, cargo general manager for the UK and Ireland. Veyssi,, who has been with Air France Cargo since 1988, succeeds Bernard Frattini, who becomes cargo general manager for North America, based in New York. Source: Flight International
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Leica
Neil Vancans has been appointed president of the newly created global-positioning-system unit of Technology group Leica of Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Vancans was most recently director of sales and marketing for northern Europe and before that, was managing director Leica UK. Source: Flight International
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AAR Aicraft
AAR Aircraft Sales & Leasing has named Wain Barber vice-president of operations. He was formerly vice-president of operations for AAR Engine Sales & Leasing. Source: Flight International
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P&W
Jean-Louis Berrendonner has been appointed senior vice-president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East at the Large Commercial Engine unit of East Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. Berrendonner was most recently vice-president of strategic development for Intertechnique of France, an equipment manufacturer associated with Dassault, and ...
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Flying Colours
Following the appointment of Terry Soult as managing director and Carolyn Quintaba as commercial-services director, newly launched Flying Colours Airline, of Manchester, UK, has announced four more appointments. Terry Michaels becomes flight-operations director. He joins from Air 2000, where he was fleet captain for the Airbus Industrie A320 fleet, as ...
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IATA
The safety committee of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has appointed Lufthansa Capt Thomas Baberg as its new chairman. Baberg, deputy chairman since 1994, takes over from Finnair's Seppo Kirjonen. Baberg, a Boeing 747-400 pilot, is responsible for flight safety within the Lufthansa group and manages and monitors the ...
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Earning its upkeep
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THE BOEING 777 WAS launched into revenue operations on 7 June, 1995, with United Airlines, when the US airline began to operate its first Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered aircraft between London Heathrow and Washington DC. For several months United was the sole 777 ...
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Hammer blows
IAI's upgrade of the F-4 is satisfying its initial customer. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE UNOFFICIAL DEBATE in the Israeli air force is whether the upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-4 2000 will still be in service in 2005 or in 2020. This debate stops at the gate of ...
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Second decade
Eumetsat has ordered a fleet of spacecraft for polar orbits. Tim Furniss/LONDON EUMETSAT, EUROPE'S weather-satellite organisation, has marked its tenth year of operations by authorising the development of a new $2.3 billion satellite system to send into polar orbits. The satellites will be used to improve weather ...
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Boeing
James Morris has been named vice-president and general manager of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Boeing Defense & Space Group's Helicopters division, succeeding Denton Hanford. Morris was formerly the division's assistant general manager and Hanford has taken responsibility for transition activities following the purchase by Boeing of Rockwell International's aerospace and defence units, ...
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Grob mounts Thai G115T sales campaign
GERMAN manufacturer Burkhart Grob is pushing to sell its G115TA to the Thai air force and navy. The South-East Asian country needs 48 basic trainers. Grob declines to confirm that it is bidding in Thailand, but says that the aircraft has attracted interest in Australia, South America ...
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AGAT unveils dual-mode seeker for AA-X-13 AAM
RUSSIAN MISSILE-seeker designer AGAT has revealed its dual-mode active/ semi-active radar seeker initially designed for the R-37 (AA-X-13) long-range air-to-air missile, successor to the Vympel R-33 (AA-9 Amos). The design bureau says that it started work on the seeker in the mid-1980s, with a first air-launched test in ...
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Inefficiency with US directives
Sir - I recently tried to renew our subscription to US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directives bi-weekly supplements, and noticed that the FAA has farmed this service out to the US Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents. After submitting the order, with the required payment, the bi-weekly supplements ...
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Fast data
More and more airlines are taking advantage of quick-access recorders. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The MAJOR QUALITY-CONTROL and cost-savings benefits delivered by quick-access flight-data recorders (QARs) are beyond debate, and most leading non-US carriers are already enjoying these benefits. Although some airlines have been surprisingly slow to adopt ...
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Canada 3000 signs up for A330-200s
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CANADA 3000 AIRLINES has signed a lease agreement for up to four Airbus A330-200s, and is set to become the launch customer for the high-capacity twin in North America, and the first operator worldwide of the -200 version. The Toronto, Canada-based charter airline has ...