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FAA should tidy up its own back yard
Sir - When the US Federal Aviation Administration began its programme of declaring foreign airworthiness authorities as unfit, and prevented airlines under its jurisdiction from expanding services to the USA, I regarded this as tantamount to air piracy. As recent events, surrounding the ValuJet crash investigations have revealed, ...
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Analogue systems are still worthwhile
Sir - Unlike aircraft, VHF radio systems, which use a single-unit "transceiver", air-traffic-control (ATC) ground/air radio systems use a semi-duplex arrangement. With semi-duplex, the transmitter and receiver are independent items, which, ideally (in the case of ATC), are physically separated. The rationale behind this independence and separation is ...
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Northrop
Lloyd Carpenter has been named vice-president for international operations for Los Angeles, California-based Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and Systems division. He was most recently vice-president for technical services, logistics and capital resources. Source: Flight International
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Hughes
George Lewis has been named Indonesia country director for Los Angeles, California-based Hughes International. He was most recently senior technical advisor to Dr Bacharuddin Habibie, Indonesia's minister for research and technology. Lewis will report to Hughes International South East Asia vice-president Jim Gebhard. ...
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DTI
John Mather has started a two-year appointment at the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as export promoter for the north-east Asian aviation market. Mather, who has been been seconded from UK aerospace, electronics and control specialist Meggitt, was formerly business director for Asia at British Aerospace. ...
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GTE
US telecommunications company GTE, of Stamford, Connecticut, has named Horace Lindsay vice-president for technology marketing, based in Washington DC. He was president of GTE's Airfone unit, of Oak Brook, Illinois where he will be succeeded by Katherine Harless. Source: Flight International
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Morten Beyer
David Hansen has joined US aviation consultancy Morten Beyer, of McLean, Virginia, as director of research and development. He was formerly with Fokker Aircraft USA for 20 years and, before that, was a senior engineer/scientist for Douglas Aircraft working on DC-9s and DC-10s. Source: Flight International
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MDC
McDonnell Douglas (MDC), of Huntington Beach, California, has appointed Dr Rodney Linford vice-president and general manager for space flight programmes. He succeeds George Kersels, who has left the company. Linford will report to Bill Olson, senior vice-president at MDC Space and Defense Systems. Source: Flight International
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CHC helicopter
CHC Helicopter of Canada, parent company of UK helicopter company British International, has appointed Paul Conway managing director of the UK company. He was formerly commercial and deputy managing director of British International. David Wood has left the UK company. Source: Flight International
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London Luton
Frank Pullman has been appointed chief executive at London Luton Airport of the UK, with effect from 1 August. Pullman, former airport director, was previously with British Airways, where he held several senior management positions. Source: Flight International
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Cebu Pacific Air eyes Asian and transpacific expansion
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON CEBU PACIFIC Air is planning to launch a series of South-East-Asian regional and transpacific services following its successful start earlier this year operating domestic routes in the Philippines. Applications have already been filed for international services to Guam, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, ...
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Robinson makes surprise move to Dornier
JIM ROBINSON, the former president of AlliedSignal Engines, who recently took over at Learjet, has surprised the aerospace world by becoming president of Dornier. Robinson will be based at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen headquarters, near Munich, to oversee the integration of the company with Fairchild Aircraft, which bought the majority ...
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MTU restructuring
The Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) engine subsidiary MTU Munich is to reorganise its activities into some 20 process-oriented centres in a further move to cut costs and return to profit in 1998. The company turned over DM1.4 billion ($916 million) in 1995, but declines to reveal the size of its loss. ...
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DLR cancels Strato 2C contract
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), has terminated its contract with Burkhart Grob Aerospace for the development of the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft. The cancellation comes after the German Government refused to release DM47 million ($31.3 million) for the completion of the ...
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Lockheed Martin wins X-33 contract with VentureStar
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA HAS selected Lockheed Martin to design, build and test the X-33, a half-scale model of a proposed Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) to replace the Space Shuttle fleet. A full-scale vehicle could be operational by 2005. The fully re-useable Lockheed Martin VentureStar will ...
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Fakel moves into AAM market
RUSSIAN SURFACE-to-air missile (SAM) design house Fakel is attempting to break into new markets by offering two air-to-air versions of secret SAM development projects. Both weapons are being offered for the Sukhoi Su-27M (Su-35) Flanker. Fakel is working on an active-radar-guided medium-range missile (box right in picture) ...