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PEMCO
Precision Standard of Birmingham, Alabama has appointed Cleveland Howie as director of marketing for the company's Pemco Nacelle Services Unit. Howie was most recently senior sales and marketing representative for AAR Engine Component Systems. The company has also appointed Lars Kirchhoff as regional marketing manager for its Pemco World Air ...
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FlightSafety
Britt Hoskins has been promoted to director of Government business, a new position at FlightSafety International. Hoskins has been the company's manager for its Daleville-Dothan Learning Centers, which primarily train military aircrews, for the past 11 years. Source: Flight International
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America West
America West Airlines has appointed Barbara Newman as vice-president, compensation and benefits, and Stephen Johnson as vice-president, legal. Newman comes from Avon Products, New York, and Johnson was formerly senior vice-president and general counsel for GE Capital Aviation Services in Shannon, Ireland. Source: Flight International
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GKN
David Wright has been appointed to the board of GKN, and will succeed Alan Jones as managing director for the company's Aerospace and Special Vehicles, with responsibility for the Westland Group and GKN's Special Vehicles Division. Wright has been chief executive of the Division since 1989, which he joined after ...
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FAA
The US Federal Aviation Administration has appointed Christopher Hart to a new post of assistant administrator for system safety. Hart will have overall responsibility for the FAA's safety programmes. Hart was formerly deputy administrator at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Source: Flight International
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Preston for Continental
Software developer The Preston Group of Australia has added Continental Airlines to the list of users for its advanced airspace simulation software, Total Airspace & Airport Modeller (TAAM). Continental will use TAAM to solve airspace and airport congestion problems and to analyse proposed schedules. Source: Flight ...
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Solid Ramjet Test
A French research and industry group has succeeded in flying what it claims is the first solid-fuelled ramjet to be tested in Europe. The "Rustique" missile (so called because it promises much lower purchase cost than current liquid-fuelled ramjets) was flown at the Centre d'Essais des Landes. The programme is ...
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Touch and go
Time is becoming a critical factor in air traffic control. Harry Hopkins/BOSCOMBE DOWN Research and planning for more efficient European air traffic control (ATC) in the next century emphasises the precise use of the fourth dimension: time. The UK Defence Research Agency (DRA) at Boscombe Down, in ...
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VEGA delivers Harrier cockpit trainer
A TRAINING SYSTEM enabling Royal Navy maintenance technicians to become familiar with the cockpit layout of the British Aerospace Sea Harrier F/A2 has been delivered to the Royal Navy Air School at Yeovilton by VEGA, the UK-based software and systems engineering group. The cockpit orientation trainer, built by subcontractor Ogle ...
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Samsung considers joining four-seat Skycar project
SOUTH KOREA'S Samsung Aerospace, has agreed to study the feasibility, of jointly developing a four-seat vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with US designer, Moller International. Davis, California-based Moller, has been developing the ducted-fan Skycar since 1983 and has invested $35 million in the programme to date. ...
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Shaky partnership
Despite the Discovery's triumph, joint US/CIS missions face an uncertain future. Tim Furniss/LONDON As James Weatherbee, commander of the US Space Shuttle Discovery, brought his orbiter close to the Russian Mir 1 space station on 6 February, he told the station's commander Alexander Viktorenko that he ...
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Piaggio anxiety increases
CONCERN OVER the future of Piaggio is growing as attempts to find a new owner fail to progress. The troubled, Italian Aerospace Company has been run for the past three months by administrators, appointed by, the Italian Bankruptcy Courts. Switzerland's Pilatus group has withdrawn from the bidding, leaving ...
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Jetstream aims for J41 backlog
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON JETSTREAM AIRCRAFT aims to build a three-year backlog for its J41 30-seat turboprop to take into the alliance with ATR when the merger is completed by the end of this year. Marketing director Nick Godwin estimates that orders for the J41 earned it ...
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Flemings doubts add to Bravia problems
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON NEW CRACKS have appeared in the Bravia consortium, set up to sell Rolls-Royce re-engine Tupolev Tu-204 twinjets, with the Flemings banking group expected to make a final decision, over its involvement in the programme within weeks. The problems, centre on disputes over funding ...
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UK may force Starstreak competition
IN AN ALMOST unprecedented move, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) may force missile manufacturer Shorts to compete for follow-on orders of its much-delayed Starstreak very-short-range air-defence system. Belfast-based Shorts is now completing the first tranche of deliveries to the MoD, with the programme running almost five years ...
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Riding the Tiger
Flight International flight-tests Eurocopter's candidate for the UK attack-helicopter requirement. Peter Gray/MUNICH Everything about the Eurocopter Tiger is modern - the design, materials, the technology and even the way it is operated and managed. The rotor head has no hinges to lubricate and is made of composite ...
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Aer Lingus close to finalising deal to lease three BAe 146-300s
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AER LINGUS IS close to completing a deal to lease three British Aerospace 146-300 regional-jets to allow it to compete on routes between Ireland and UK regional airports. The aircraft are being made ready for leasing by BAe's Assett Management Organisation, although Aer Lingus ...
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UK prepares to impose TCAS II
David Learmount/LONDON THE UK IS TO BE the first European country to demand the use of traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS) in its own airspace. The UK Civil Aviation Authority says that it expects to give the go-ahead "within a matter of weeks". The CAA ...
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Cessna spells out plans for single-engine revival
CESSNA AIRCRAFT has revealed new details of its plan to re-enter the single-engine piston aircraft market. Cessna chairman Russ Meyer says that his firm will build 2,000 model 172s, 182s and 206s in 1998 - the first full year of production. The initial 25-30 aircraft, to be ...
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Power struggles
For Snecma's new chief Bernard Dufour, the state can be both a friend and a foe Julian Moxon/PARIS Bernard Dufour is clearly a man, who intends to make his mark, on the French and European aero-engine industry. Since taking over as chairman and chief executive ...