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Precision Profits
Maintenance Specialist Precision Standard, nearly doubled profits, to $11 million in 1994, despite a 12% slip in sales to below $149 million. The company blames the lower revenues on lower volumes and delays in military-aircraft maintenance and the slower-than-expected start-up of its Danish airliner centre. Source: Flight International
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Florida Authority
The US Air Force has formally handed over its launch pad 46 at Cape Canaveral to Spaceport Florida Authority (SFA) for use by commercial-launcher companies, including Orbital Sciences and Lockheed. The USAF awarded SFA a payment of $2.74 million, while additional funding will come from the space industry and the ...
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USAF Head Killed
Investigators are probing the 17 April crash of a US Air Force Learjet C-21A executive jet which killed all eight people aboard, including Clark Fiester, the USAF's assistant secretary for acquisition. The aircraft was flown from Andrews AFB outside Washington and was bound for Randolph AFB in San Antonio, Texas. ...
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Belarus Topols To Go
Russia is set to withdraw its remaining RS-12M Topol (SS-25 Sickle) mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles from Belarus by 25 July, according to East European press reports. The reports quote Col. Vladimir Krivomazov, a spokesman for Russia's strategic missile forces, as saying that there are 18 of the single-warhead missiles based ...
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Samsung Goes Dutch
Samsung Aerospace has won a $5 million contract from the Dutch navy to repair and overhaul 20 Allison T56 turboprop engines fitted to its Lockheed P-3C anti-submarine aircraft. The South Korean Company won the three-year contract after competing against Aviall, Hunting and Sochata. Source: Flight International
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Helicopter GPS Evaluation
Systems Management of Maryland has installed an AWOS 3500 automated surface-observing system at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, in support of the Federal Aviation Administration's global-positioning-system helicopter non-precision approach programme. The Madison-based University's heliport is the third to evaluate GPS approaches under the FAA rotorcraft programme. ...
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HUD Support
AlliedSignal General Aviation Avionics has signed an agreement with head-up-display (HUD) manufacturer Flight Visions to repair, overhaul and provide 24h spares support for the Illinois based company's HUD. Source: Flight International
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Spar Contract
Spar Aerospace has won a series of contracts worth over C$5 million ($3.6 million) from McDonnell Douglas to supply deployable flight-incident recorder sets for the US Navy's fleet of F-18 fighters. Source: Flight International
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Emery
International Freight Company Emery Worldwide has appointed Frederic Schnitzler to the newly created position of logistics manager for Europe, based at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France. Schnitzler, who most recently ran a logistics consultancy, was formerly logistics development manager at Schenkers' UK division. Meanwhile, Randy Clark has been appointed ...
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Intertrade
Kerry Koch has been appointed controller at aerospace after-market supplier Intertrade, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Koch, who will be responsible for all financial and administrative affairs, was most recently corporate controller for National Propane and AMGAS. ...
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Inmarsat
Satellite-communications organisation Inmarsat, of London, UK, has appointed Noel Isotta as an interim director-general. Isotta, who recently retired as deputy director-general, takes over from Olof Lundberg, who resigned in March, to become chief executive of affiliate company, Inmarsat-P. Isotta, who joined Inmarsat in 1980, was previously with the European Space ...
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JAL
Akiro Kondo, Japan Airlines' (JAL) senior managing director responsible for corporate planning, will be JAL's next president, subject to shareholder approval at the annual general meeting to be held on 29 June. He will succeed Matsuo Toshimitsu, who will remain on the board as an advisor. Akio Kohno, managing director ...
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America West Pact
America West Airlines has reached a tentative five-year labor pact with pilots represented by the Airline Pilots Association. Details of the agreement will not be released until the pact is approved by the carrier's 1,000 pilots and by the board. Source: Flight International
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GPS commitment is impossible
Sir - US President Bill Clinton has stated that the USA is committed to provide global-positioning-system (GPS) signals to the international civil-aviation community (Flight International, 5-11 April, P9). While one does not doubt his sincerity, he cannot commit his successors. Unless controlled and financed by an international organisation ...
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FTL proposals are 30 years old
Sir - I have followed the controversy over the European Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA) proposed flight-time limitations (FTLs). The proposals are almost an exact copy of those which existed in 1964. The JAA must answer the questions: how can it justify introducing 30-year-old FTLs? What medical ...
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Mixing types is not the answer
Sir - After reading the article "SAS defects to Boeing from MDC" (Flight International, 22-28 March, P5), I felt I had to make some comments from an aircrew point of view. It may seem to SAS fleet-development vice-president Ulf Abrahamsson and his board that the correct course of ...
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BAE Airbus
British Aerospace Airbus, of Bristol, UK, has restructured some senior management responsibilities. Ray Wilson becomes director of product operations, reporting to BAe Airbus managing director Chris Geoghegan. Wilson will be supported by Jeff Jupp, director of engineering, and David Waring, director of manufacturing, who was formerly with Dowty Aerospace Landing ...