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MDC will hire more staff
McDONNELL Douglas (MDC) is immediately "ramping up its resources" as a result of the ValuJet order and will add up to 450 design and development staff by mid-1996, says MD-95 deputy programme manager, Jerry Callaghan. A further 1,500 assembly line jobs will also be created, starting in 1996 ...
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Smoothing the flow
The approach of stricter noise-control legislation means good business for engine hushkitters. Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE CONCEPT OF hushkitting has been around for almost as long as the civil jet-engine itself. Recent legislation, however, has forced airlines to reconsider this relatively primitive approach to reducing the noise emitted by ...
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A dying breed
VALUJET EFFECTIVELY (and finally) launched the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 on 19 October, with an order for 50. The deal will be seen by some as the launch of the last of the old-style regional jets, but its pricing appears to be all too modern. Either way, ValuJet's order will ...
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Heading goes in here in here
Sir - In the article "Raytheon's first" (Flight International, 4-10 October, P42), your writer comments that the Premier I is "not a Beech nor a Hawker" and quotes Roy Norris as saying that "...the cabin cross-section is...close to that of a Hawker 800". The very clear Hawker (or, ...
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CL-44: putting the record straight
Sir - In your Aging Airliner Census (Flight International, 4-10 October, P49), you do not mention the Canadair CL-44 turboprop freighter. There are still five in active service in the USA, one with Buffalo and four with Tradewinds (formerly Bluebell), now trading under US Federal Aviation Regulations Part 121. We ...
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Indirect routing should be cheaper
Sir - Mr Jeandrain's letter (Flight International, 4-10 October, P69) leaves me confused. He tells us that ticket prices are on the decline, then he says that it is cheaper to fly indirectly to one's destination. Finally, he concludes that it is all happening because of government subsidies. ...
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FAA
Steven Brown senior vice-president for Government and technical affairs at the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has been appointed vice-chairman of the US Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee. He will hold the position for 1995-6 and will become chairman for 1996-7, succeeding Sarah MacLeod of the Aeronautical ...
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Jet Aviation
Jack Brooks, has become sales manager for maintenance and modifications, at service company Jet Aviation of West Palm Beach, Florida. He was most recently manager of corporate sales for aircraft maintenance and modifications at Page Avjet. Source: Flight International
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AOPA
Stacy Hamm has been named regional representative for Arizona, Utah and Nevada by the US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), of Frederick, Maryland. Hamm, who replaces Carl Smith, was formerly an aviation-insurance agent and is a member of the Arizona Aviation Safety Advisory Group. ...
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Air Jamaica
National carrier Air Jamaica has appointed Tony Cowles general manager for the UK and Europe. He was most recently general manager for the UK and Europe with Caribbean carrier BWIA International. Source: Flight International
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Mesaba
Carl Pohlad becomes chairman of Mesaba Holdings, parent of Northwest Airlink carrier Mesaba Airlines; Bryan Bedford is named president and chief executive; John Fredericksen is appointed vice-president for finance and general counsel; and William Dolan becomes secretary. Newly elected to the Mesaba Holdings board are Northwest Airlines managers Richard Hirst, ...
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Scholarship
Martyn Steele has won the 1995 Flight International Barnett and Piercey Flying Scholarship. Steele, in his second year at the University of Plymouth, Devon, won a Royal Air Force Flying Scholarship in 1994 and has some 21h of powered-flying experience. He hopes to fly with the RAF after he has ...
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MDC
John Steurer has been appointed vice-president and general manager of the Joint Advanced Technology programme at McDonnell Douglas (MDC) of St Louis, Missouri, succeeding Donald McGovern, who is to retire at the end of the year. Steurer, with MDC for 25 years, including being vice-president for integrated product definition, was ...
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Embraer
Brazilian airframe manufacturer Embraer has appointed Mauricio Botelho president and chief executive. He replaces Juarez Wanderley, who was the interim president during the transition period, which followed the carrier's privatisation. Wanderley becomes vice-president of industry under a new management structure. Botelho has held management positions in engineering, telecommunications, automation systems ...
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Rockwell
Newly appointed managing director of Rockwell Systems Australia (RSA) is David Grey, formerly managing director of GEC-Marconi Australia. Grey will be responsible for RSA's defence business, replacing Donald Boyce, who will return to the USA after more than five years in Australia. Source: Flight ...
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BAe Australia
Robin Southwell, managing director of British Aerospace Asset Management Organisation (AMO), is to become group chief executive at BAe Australia. Tony Rice is appointed to the new position of chief executive at AMO, with responsibility both for AMO and JSX Capital operations. Source: Flight International
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Loral FLIR for LAMPS
Loral will begin providing the Sikorsky Aircraft SH-60B LAMPS anti-submarine and airborne surveillance helicopter with forward-looking infra-red (FLIR) systems under US Navy contracts totaling $35 million. Source: Flight International