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ACTIVE F-15 ready for first flight
NASA's thrust-vectoring-equipped McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15 is expected to have its first flight at Edwards AFB, California, around 1 February, following the successful completion of "hot-load" tests on the engines and vectoring nozzles. The modified F-15 will be used to evaluate the performance benefits of thrust-vectoring under phase one ...
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Air India pauses as Airbus renews offer
Air India has postponed a decision on the acquisition of up to 24 long-range aircraft while it considers a revised offer from Airbus Industrie. The national carrier was due to announce a decision following a board meeting in new Delhi on 23 January. The issue slipped off the agenda ...
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The psychology of selection process
Sir - I note the interesting juxtaposition of letters ("Psychologists analyse thyselves" and "Is there an anti-poaching scheme?", Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995, P93). I am not a psychologist, but I have worked in recruitment and selection, and I think that both letters miss some crucial points. ...
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Defining IATA's role in Russia
Sir - Your leader "Air traffic mismanagement" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995) states: "The fear is that Russia will adopt a series of isolated, unco-ordinated, primarily vendor-driven ATM systems", which, in itself, is not unjustified. The conclusions of the analysis are wrong, however. The International Air Transport Association's ...
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Messier-Dowty
Geoff Smith has been appointed managing director of TI/Snecma joint-venture landing-gear manufacturer Messier-Dowty of Abingdon, Oxford, UK. Smith, who joined the Dowty Group in 1968, joined Lucas for 12 years, before returning to Dowty Fuel Systems in 1987, where he became director and general manager and managing director of joint ...
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Meggitt
Mike Farge has been named director of marketing at UK engineering-technology company Meggitt, of Wimborne, Dorset. He was formerly managing director of Coltax Aerospace, a Meggitt subsidiary. He was formerly with the Westland Group, senior vice-president for customer support at British Aerospace and managing director of FLS Aerospace. ...
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Independence
Roy Hagerty has become president and chief executive officer of start-up airline Independence Air, of Atlanta, Georgia. Hagerty, who replaces Barry Harris, was most recently president of Airline Development Group, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based consultancy. Source: Flight International
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Dynair tech
Steve Townes has become president of DynAir Tech, a commercial-aircraft modifications and heavy-services company based at Phoenix, Arizona. Source: Flight International
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Air Canada
Chris Nassenstein has been appointed vice-president for technical operations at Air Canada, with effect from 1 February. He was most recently vice-president for maintenance and engineering at Canadian Airlines and has also held senior positions at Nordair, Austin Airways and Quebecair. He replaces John Dickie. Source: ...
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Pemco
Henrik Blaabjerg has been promoted to general manager for maintainer and modifier Precision Standard's Pemco Air Support Services subsidiary's Copenhagen, Denmark, operation. Blaabjerg, who joined Pemco in 1994, was in the Danish air force and then held positions with Maersk and Scandinavian Airlines System. Source: Flight ...
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STAe
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe), the Aerospace arm of the Singapore Technologies Group, has appointed Wee Siew Kim senior vice-president (operations) for its commercial-business group. Oci Ling Heong becomes senior vice-president (marketing). Tang Kok Fai has resigned as executive vice-president of the commercial-business group. Source: Flight International
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Message
Aviation and travel-related corporate-communications consultancy Message Management of Hong Kong has appointed John Bailey as general manager of its head office in Hong Kong. Bailey, most recently an account director with the company, was previously Asian editor for Flight International. Source: Flight International
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NASA's admission
By 1990, Ali AbuTaha made the dynamic-overshoot error known in the USA and abroad in lectures, courses and official documents. NASA and others began to take notice. Bob Sieck, Shuttle launch director, commenting on an earlier scrubbed launch at the STS45/Atlantis post-launch press conference on 24 March, 1992, said: "We ...
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Windshield test
Fort Worth, Texas-based Perkins Aircraft Services has successfully completed birdstrike testing on its replacement Learjet windshield. The 300kt (550km/h) test of a 1.8kg bird was conducted in Canada. Source: Flight International
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Astra approval
Astra Jet will begin deliveries of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Astra SPX by the end of January, following US certification of the Mach 0.82 business jet on 8 January. IAI marketing arm Astra Jet expects to deliver 14 aircraft in 1996 after delivering only six SPs in 1995. IAI ...
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Fastener purchase
Banner Aerospace is negotiating the acquisition of Fairchild's Harco division, an El Segundo, California-based distributor of aerospace fasteners. Under the proposed share-exchange deal, Fairchild would become the majority shareholder in Washington, DC-based Banner Aerospace. Source: Flight International