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Pemco
John Driver has become vice-president for product support at Pemco World Air Services of Birmingham, Alabama, a subsidiary of maintenance company Precision Standard. Driver, who will be based at Denver Colorado, was most recently vice-president for customer support at UK helicopter company Westland. Source: Flight International
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Pace
Pace Airline Services has appointed Rachael Harrison UK operations director and Allan Burck UK sales director. Harrison, with Pace for nine years, was formerly operations manager. Burck, with the company for six years, will be responsible for all UK sales efforts. Both will be based at the Birmingham International Airport ...
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Northwest
Ruthie McKee has been named senior vice-president for customer service and line maintenance at Northwest Airlines, of St Paul, Minneapolis. She was formerly vice-president for customer service, ground operations. Frank Jauregui becomes vice-president for line maintenance. He was previously managing director of international line maintenance. Marilyn Rogers is named vice-president ...
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Thomson UAE Order
The United Arab Emirates' seven Eurocopter AS.565 Panther anti-surface-ship-warfare helicopters now on order are to be fitted with the Thomson-CSF helicopter self-protection system (HSPS). The HSPS incorporates wide-band-signals reception, instantaneous frequency measurement and system control. According to Patrick Henin, assistant director of Thomson's Radar and Countermeasures division, this ...
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Nose to nose
The Paris show is the first major event for over a decade to feature aircraft from both Boeing and Airbus Industrie Kieran Daly/LONDON The significance of symbolic moments should not be exaggerated, but Paris '95 serves as well as any event to mark the start of ...
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Business returns
That there are more than 30 business aircraft on display at Paris suggests a new found sales optimism Forbes Mutch/LONDON After several years of stagnation, even of decline, the corporate-aircraft market, hardest hit of all aerospace sectors during the recession, has at last shown signs of movement. ...
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Empty Space
Just when we've really got something to talk about, we can't go," says Debbie Rahn of NASA's public affairs office for international affairs, explaining that the US space agency has pulled out of this year's Paris air show, for reasons of economic expediency. The timing is unfortunate because ...
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Tunnel vision?
Are Europe's airlines underestimating the impact of high-speed rail services? Andrew Chuter/LONDON If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world's busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands. ...
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Transatlantic tussle
The US defence industry will be putting on a show of strength at Le Bourget Douglas Barrie/London Against the dark background of an aggressive US military marketing push, the debut of the Eurofighter 2000 combat aircraft at Le Bourget still hangs in the balance. The decision is ...
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Rotary rumble
Military machines may dominate at Le Bourget, with the imminent UK attack-helicopter decision occupying the thoughts of many Kieran Daly and Douglas Barrie/london The battle for the Netherlands is over - the battle for England is about to begin. Well, not quite - the battle for the ...
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Columbus in dock
ESA's future as an important influence on the world of space flight could be in jeopardy. Tim Furniss/LONDON The European Space Agency's (ESA) Columbus space-station programme is over 11 years old, but no flight hardware has yet been built. The political and bureaucratic wranglings among ...
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Debuts and decisions
The chief element of missile weaponry is surprise, and there may be a few at Le Bourget. Douglas Barrie/LONDON Python Four and Super-Darter are likely to be the names most spoken about by those visitors who are interested in missiles at the Paris air show this year. ...
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Asian aspirations
Japan is anxious to expand its interests in civil aviation. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Honest communications and mutual respect, are cited by one major airframe manufacturer, as fundamental policies when negotiating international collaborative ventures. There is, unfortunately, little evidence of either in the long running and increasingly convoluted negotiations ...
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Bite of the underdog
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will be competing in some vital sales contests in the near future Kieran Daly/LONDON The next few months will see the outcomes of some of the most significant aircraft sales contests in the history of the aviation business. Purchase decisions to ...
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Record Run
Cessna is claiming two speed records for the Citation X business jet after its 11 May "bicoastal" run. The aircraft was flown from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Van Nuys, California, in 4h 49min, an average true-airspeed of 448kt (694km/h); and from Van Nuys to White Plains, New York, in 4h ...
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Exhausting issues
Aviation is coming under fresh attack from environmental lobbyists. Andrzej Jeziorski/Berlin There was an air of apologetic embarrassment about environmentalist Karl Schallabock as he gave his presentation on air transport and the environment at the Berlin Climate Summit in March. The audience at ...
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Worth its stripes
The Eurocopter Tiger has been designed with versatility as a key asset. Julian Moxon/PARIS The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 meant that, almost overnight, instant obsolescence rather than Russian armed might became the threat to Western weapons systems. No longer, for example, will anti-tank helicopters ...