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Firefly delivery
Northrop Grumman has delivered the last of 113 T-3A (Slingsby Firefly) enhanced flight-screener aircraft to the US Air Force. The UK-built aircraft were assembled at Hondo, Texas, beginning in February 1994. Source: Flight International
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Loral Apache deal
Loral has received a $16.2 million US Army contract to supply APR-48A radar-frequency-interferometer passive emitter-detection and identification systems for the McDonnell Douglas AH-64D Longbow Apache fire-control-radar system. Source: Flight International
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MIDS progresses
The US Air Force has issued a request for proposal for the multi-function information distribution system (MIDS), Link 16, fighter datalink, and plans to award multiple contracts to qualify MIDS terminals, followed by a 500-unit production contract to equip McDonnell Douglas F-15s. Source: Flight International
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MSAS
Airfreight forwarder MSAS (UK) Cargo International, of Feltham, Middlesex, has appointed Paul Rayson sales and marketing director, the first such appointment for three years. Rayson, most recently with the Securicor Group, has also been sales manager of avionics marketing at British Aerospace and director of airline sales and marketing at ...
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Mediterranean
British Mediterranean Airways, based in London, UK, has named Ed Manning general manager of sales. Manning, previously sales manager joined the airline just before its October 1994 launch, having previously worked, with Airpic USA and Airpic UK. Source: Flight International
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AOPA
David Ogilvy has been named executive chairman at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of the UK (AOPA UK), following the death of Ron Campbell. He has been vice-chairman for the past five years. Jack Wells, president of the Civil Service Aviation Association, becomes vice-chairman of AOPA UK's executive committee. ...
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International
VIP-aircraft-completions company, International Aviation Services of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Brian Ward vice-president of sales. He has held sales management positions, with Page AvJet and Atlantic Aviation. Source: Flight International
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DynCorp
Information-technology company Dyncorp of Reston, Virginia, has named Robert Alleger, president of its Aerospace Technology unit, based in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a former vice-president of systems-support services for Lockheed Martin, based at Colorado Springs in Colorado. Source: Flight International
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easyJet
Ray Webster, formerly general manager of strategic planning at Air New Zealand, has been appointed to the new position of managing director at start-up UK scheduled airline EasyJet, of London Luton Airport. The appointment releases chairman Stelios Haji-Ioannou, to whom Webster will report, to concentrate on strategy and growth. ...
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Don't judge one by the majority
Sir - You were right to give the US Federal Aviation Administration finalist status in the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards 1996 Safety Section, but the illustration of a LanChile freighter shows the problem behind the FAA's policy. Firstly, Chile is among the safe countries on the International ...
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The military metamorphosis
Sir - Derek Colborne demands that military pilots be exempt from the demanding tests and licensing examinations which must be passed by all UK airline pilots (Flight International, 21-27 February, P42). The former Soviet Union and China are parts of the world with a much higher accident rate ...
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...but it's basically an easy job
Sir - I observe with rising incredulity that section of the commercial-pilot fraternity, which believes that the world owes them a living. Flying a transport aircraft is not a difficult task. It is one, which with suitable training could be competently accomplished by the vast majority of the ...
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Teledyne rejection
Teledyne has rejected a $1.8 billion take-over bid from WHX, New York-based parent of steel maker Wheeling-Pittsburgh. WHX, which had previously offered $1.2 billion, says that it will work to get a Teledyne board appointed which is committed to selling the company to the highest bidder. ...
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Space hazard ahead
Man-made space debris is more hazardous to spacecraft operating in Earth orbits below 2,000km than are meteoroids, says a report issued by the US White House National Science and technology Council. Source: Flight International
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Death toll rises
The crash of China's first Long March 3B and its Intelsat 708 payload on 14 February, T+22s after launch from Xichang, caused six deaths and injuries to 57 on the ground, China Great Wall Industry has revealed. US officials have been invited to participate in an inquiry into the disaster, ...