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Simon Aviation
Debra Guinand has become sales manager, North America, at de-icing specialist Simon Aviation Ground Equipment of Olathe, Kansas. Guinand was in sales and marketing with AMR Services. Source: Flight International
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Aviall
Frank Leftwich has been named president of newly created marketing company Aviall Asia, based in Hong Kong. He was previously executive vice-president of marketing for engine overhauler Aviall, of Dallas, Texas. Dan Komnenovich becomes senior vice-president of marketing for engine overhauler Aviall at Dallas. He was formerly senior vice-president for ...
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UK CAA
The UK Civil Aviation Authority has just presented its first Safety Award for general aviation to Stephen Linstead (right), a student pilot who suffered an engine failure on his first solo flight. Presenting the award, CAA managing director Tom Murphy said that Linstead "…conducted himself in a laudable manner and ...
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Loral success
Space Systems/Loral has been awarded a $102 million contract from the Japanese transport ministry, to build an air-traffic-control satellite which will be launched in 1999. The company beat a bid by NEC. Source: Flight International
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Heat rejection
Loral Vought Systems has been awarded a $13.3 million contract extension to redesign six heat-rejection-system radiators for the International Space Station. The 1,050kg, 3m-long, radiators will be capable of releasing 11kW of excess heat, using a pumped liquid-ammonia heat-transfer system. Source: Flight International
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Kodak in space
Eastman Kodak has joined the Space Imaging company formed by Lockheed to operate a commercial remote-sensing satellite system, starting in 1997. The satellites will generate 1m-resolution digital images for the production of data products for a market which is forecast to be worth $5 billion in 2000. Japan's Mitsubishi has ...
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CAE buy complete
Canada's CAE has sold its US defence-simulation business, CAE-Link, to GM Hughes Electronics. The $155 million proceeds will be used to clear CAE's debt. The new Link division of Hughes Training had revenues of $345 million to 31 March 1994. Source: Flight International
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Litton chance
Litton stands to sell more than 2,000 embedded (EGI) LN-100G global-positioning/inertial-navigation systems, worth $275 million, to equip US Navy McDonnell Douglas F-18s and Northrop Grumman EA-6Bs, after being selected for an initial integration programme. The first contract, awarded through the US Air Force, is worth $5.4 million and covers the ...
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China sells Eaglets
China's Xian Aircraft says that it has sold the first three Eaglet 100 light aircraft to Shantou Aviation Club in the south of the country. The Eaglet is described as a low-cost two-seat aircraft, selling for around 110,000 yuan ($13,000). The Xian-designed aircraft is 5.5m long, with a 9.8m span, ...
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Archangelsk Il-114s
Archangelsk Airlines is to receive two Ilyushin Il-114 airliners this month for evaluation in the Russian polar north. Airline general director Victor Antropov says that the 5 billion roubles ($1.1 million, market-rate conversion) required to pay the Tashkent Aircraft Production Plant in Uzbekistan has been "practically approved" by the Government. ...
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Garuda A300 plans
Garuda has cancelled plans to sell nine Airbus A300-B4s, following its failure to find a cash buyer for the aircraft. Under the original plan, the Indonesian flag carrier sought a buyer which would refurbish them and then lease them back to Garuda. Now the airline says that it will update ...
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Belfast Air starts
A new airline, connecting Belfast with London-Stansted, started on 1 March, linking the two airports five times daily in each direction. Air Belfast is flying two BAC One-Elevens in a low-cost operation which aims to undercut fares charged by rivals British Airways and British Midland. Source: Flight International
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Malaysia/Indonesia deal
Indonesia will supply Malaysia with six IPTN CN-235 military transport aircraft, while receiving 20 SME Aerospace MD3-160 basic trainer aircraft from its trading partner as part of a $224 million industrial collaboration package. The deal was originally signalled by the two countries in the second quarter of 1994, although its ...
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Shuttle marathon
The Space Shuttle Endeavour, with a crew of seven, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2 March beginning the Astro 2/STS 67 astronomy mission which is planned to last a record 16 days (Flight International, 1-7 March). The Ariane V71 launch, the first since the loss of ...
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TWA gets ex-BAe boss
British Aerospace's former chairman John Cahill has been appointed chairman of Trans World Airlines (TWA). The US carrier is in the midst of trying to put together a financial restructuring package. Cahill joined TWA in September 1994 as a non-executive director. Source: Flight International
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Better business
Business improved for corporate-aircraft makers in 1994 and the upswing is expected to continue. Howard Gethin and Jennifer Pite/LONDON Last year saw the highest number of business-jet shipments by US manufacturers for 12 years and the best turbine-aircraft orders backlogs since the early 1980s. Those key ...
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Falcon feat
Dassault's extended-range Falcon 900 may have arrived at just the right moment. Julian Moxon/PARIS With long-range business travel apparently on the increase as the world recession eases, Dassault chose a good moment to introduce the extended-range Falcon 900EX at the October 1994 US National ...
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Ukraine International looks for European equity share
UKRAINE International Airlines (UIA) is in advanced talks with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and three foreign airlines over the possible sale of up to one-quarter of the carrier. Deputy president Dick Creagh says that the airline, 11.3%-owned by lessor GPA, with the rest held ...
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'Clean Wing' systems on test
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES NORTHWEST AIRLINES has begun operational tests of an experimental broad-area wing-contamination detection system on a McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-82. The test is aimed at the eventual development and certification of a production-standard system which will provide crews with automated, real-time, aircraft surface-contamination information. ...
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Providing the answers
The causes of accidents are often not found because of inadequate flight-data recorders. Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES The United Airlines Boeing 737-200 which rolled on its back and crashed for no apparent reason on the approach to Colorado Springs in March 1991 carried a six-parameter ...