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Hughes
Los Angeles-based Hughes Electronics has named Merrill Spiegel as director of government affairs, telecommunications and space policy. She will be based in the company's Washington office. Before this, she served as special assistant to Reed Hundt, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission. Source: Flight International
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KLM cargo
KLM Cargo, based at Schiphol Airport, in The Netherlands, has promoted Sjaak Hofstra, previously regional director sales for Benelux, the UK and Ireland, to operations and marketing director, Cargo Service Centre Holdings. Monique Gerrits succeeds Hofstra in his former job. She was previously regional director sales covering Sweden, Norway, Finland, ...
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Jet Aviation
Following the acquisition of DHP Aviation, a maintenance fixed-base operator at Seletar Airport in Singapore, Jet Aviation of Zurich has appointed Ruedi Kraft to head the operation. Kraft joined Jet Aviation Zurich as general manager in 1989. Before that he was with Global-Wulfsberg Systems. Source: Flight International
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Lucas
Frank Turner is to stand down as managing director of Lucas Aerospace, after three years of guiding a major restructuring programme in the division. His successor has been named as Ken Maciver, who previously headed the Lucas group's automotive braking division. Source: Flight International
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Ashes to ashes
The US Celestis organisation in Houston, which, in 1985, offered a service to place cremated human remains into space aboard the former Space Services Conestoga booster, has now approached Orbital Sciences with a view to use the Pegasus and Taurus boosters to provide a similar commercial service, starting in 1996. ...
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Failure explained
Orbital Sciences says that the most likely cause of the Pegasus XL launch failure on 22 June is that one of three nozzle guides on the second stage, which help to guide the inter-stage structure off the vehicle during first/second stage separation, was installed improperly. The inter-stage remained on the ...
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Jovian hurdles
The Galileo's six-year voyage to Jupiter is nearly over, but it still has hurdles to overcome. Tim Furniss/London NASA's $1.4 BILLION Galileo interplanetary spacecraft ploughed through the most intense dust storm ever measured as it homed in on the planet Jupiter, aiming for a ...
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Ukraine International on course to make first profit
Forbes Mutch/KIEV UKRAINE International Airlines (UIA) believes that it is on course to post its first profit since starting trading at the end of 1992. The carrier also says that it is looking for investment from an airline partner. UIA deputy president Dick Creagh estimates that ...
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Expansion piece by peace
As peace settles in Lebanon, British Mediterranean Airways continues to carve out a niche service to Beirut - and beyond. Alan George/LONDON BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways (BMA) managing director Des Hetherington sums up his airline's underlying philosophy by saying: "If it is better than our opposition and ...
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Repairing the damage
Despite having its fleet scattered or destroyed during the Gulf War, Kuwait Airways has resumed successful operations. Alan George/LONDON AS KUWAIT AIRWAYS continues to expand its route network with new services to Chicago, Copenhagen and Malaga, using new Airbus Industrie and Boeing aircraft, it is hard ...
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Orenda aims at King Air re-engineing
THE FIRST FLIGHT of two aircraft types re-fitted with Orenda 600 piston engines made by Hawker Siddeley Canada will take place by the end of 1995, says Orenda. Orenda plans to deliver two development engines in November to Merlin Products, which will be working on a Beech King ...
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Bell/Allison team tests helicopter safety devices
BELL HELICOPTER and Allison Engine have started flight-tests on an AlliedSignal device which reduces rotor droop in helicopters. Rotor droop is similar to power hesitation in a car, which can occur after the accelerator is quickly depressed. It occurs when the available torque of a helicopter's rotor blades ...
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Ogling profits, not design
Sir - Good luck to Ogle Design ("Visions of splendour", Flight International, 13-19 September, P33). Whatever success it may achieve is likely to be pretty evanescent, given the greed of airlines and the penny-pinching attitude of so many passengers. Who can forget the fanfare which accompanied ...
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Dubai air show '95 preview
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON WITH THE MIDDLE EAST celebrating its position as one of the fastest-growing markets in the aviation industry, it is not surprising that the fourth Dubai International Aerospace Exhibition, which opens on 12 November, is set to surpass all expectations. According to show organiser Fairs ...
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Making a comeback
Beirut International Airport is upgrading to meet the return of passenger traffic. Chris Yates/MANCHESTER BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is benefiting from its first substantial facelift for nearly two decades, following the cessation of hostilities and the ravages of the Lebanese civil war in 1991. Up to $590 ...
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Embraer signs S-92 gear deal
EMBRAER DIVISAO EQUIPAMENTOS (EDE) has signed a $110 million contract with Sikorsky to develop the landing gear for the S-92 19- to 22-passenger helicopter. Sikorsky plans to fly the first of five prototypes in 1998 and certificate the S-92 in 2000. The helicopter is being developed jointly by Sikorsky, EDE, ...
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Uprated S-76C+ on course for November approval
THE IMPROVED Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter is on schedule for certification in November. A test-bed aircraft is being flown by Turbomeca with the up-rated, digitally controlled Arriel 2S1 engines planned for the C+ helicopter. It underwent a 150h endurance test in August. Certification flight-testing is to begin ...
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Latvian airlines plot new courses
THE NEW LATVIAN flag carrier, Air Baltic, started operations on 1 October, coinciding with the withdrawal of all scheduled-service licences from the Government-owned Latavio. Air Baltic, a joint-venture between the Latvian Government, Baltic International USA, Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Swedish and Danish investment funds (Flight International, 6-12 ...
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Air New Zealand to start Sydney-Bangkok service
AIR NEW ZEALAND (ANZ) is to begin once-weekly Boeing 767-300 flights between Sydney and Bangkok from 8 November, under rights awarded before the Australian Government's freeze earlier this year on the granting of additional fifth-freedom rights to the New Zealand carrier. The new service follows the carrier's entry ...
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Lucas 'learns lesson' over US defence contracts
LUCAS INDUSTRIES admits that it has "learned its lessons" from doing business in the US defence market, following the heavy penalties imposed on its Western Geared Systems division (GSD) for failure to carry out proper test procedures on a US Navy contract. Reporting its 1994/5 annual results to ...