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Frank Costin
Frank Costin, aerodynamicist and structural engineer, has died. Following a career, which started with General Aircraft in Hanworth, London, and moved to sports-car design, he had returned to aviation and had recently test-flown his Dragonfly ultra-light glider. Source: Flight International
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HAS
Kin Caudill has joined Helicopter Aviation Services (HAS), of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, as director of marketing for Asia, based in Singapore. He was formerly regional marketing manager with Bell Helicopter Asia, also of Singapore. Juan Martinez becomes director for Latin American marketing, at Irving, Texas. Martinez was most recently head ...
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DFS
Ralph Riedle has taken over as chief of the air-navigation-services division of German air-traffic-services agency Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS). Riedle has been in charge of business relations at the agency, having joined the DFS from a background as an air-traffic controller in 1971. He replaces Lothar Ditz, who is to retire. ...
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British Airways
Graham Howat has been appointed general manager commercial at the engineering department of British Airways. Howat, who co-founded and ran Airline Maintenance Associates, a Cambridge-based consultancy, has also been managing director of Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Training company FlightSafety International, of Flushing, New York, has named Rudy Canto director of airline operations. He will be based at the Long Beach centre, in California. Canto was most recently chief pilot at McDonnell Douglas. Source: Flight International
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Alenia
Alenia Spazio of Italy has appointed Antonio Rodot managing director and chief executive and named Guiseppe Viriglio general manager. They both join the board. Rodot, an electronic engineer, was formerly associate general manager, while Viriglio, an aerospace engineer, was previously deputy general manager. Source: Flight International
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Rockwell
Edward Barry has been named vice-president of integrated inertial-navigation systems/global-positioning systems for Rockwell International's Autonetics Electronic Systems division, of Anaheim, California. He was most recently commander of the US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, California. Clayton Jones is appointed senior vice-president for government operations ...
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Sundstrand
Aviation component and subsystem supplier Sundstrand, of Rockford, Illinois, has named Victor Marone vice-president for aerospace programmes. He was previously with the electrical-systems division of Westinghouse, acquired by Sundstrand in 1992. Ronald McKenna has been appointed vice-president for the newly created aerospace business-development organisation. He was formerly vice-president and general ...
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FFV Aerotech
Bob Pike, formerly director of maintenance, has been promoted to vice-president in charge of aircraft maintenance at Maintenance Company, FFV Aerotech, of Nashville, Tennessee. Scott Hall, previously director of sales, becomes vice-president in charge of marketing and sales. Steve Blackstone is appointed director of component maintenance operations. He was formerly ...
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Lockheed
Gordon England will retire on 1 May as president of Lockheed's Fort Worth, Texas, fighter-aircraft division. No reason for his retirement was announced, but it may be related to the planned $10 billion merger between Lockheed and Martin Marietta. England also served as a corporate vice-president. Dan Tellep, Lockheed's chairman, ...
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UK DTI
Roy McNulty has been appointed chairman of the Aviation Committee of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. McNulty is also president of Short Brothers of Northern Ireland, a past president of the Society of British Aerospace Companies and chairman of the UK Defence and Aerospace Technology Foresight panel. Appointed ...
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Easing the flow
Europe's new Central Flow Management Unit promises to make life easier for its embattled air traffic controllers. Julian Moxon/PARIS European air traffic increased by 4.8% in 1994, which is around the annual level of growth predicted until at least the end of the century. ...
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Eurocopter claims advantage in US rotary deliveries
AMERICAN Eurocopter is claiming the largest share of new turbine-helicopter deliveries in the USA in 1994, with 49 aircraft worth $88 million, giving the company almost 45% of the market. Eurocopter's US marketing arm says that 111 new turbine-helicopters were delivered in the USA last year, an increase ...
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ILFC may launch V2500 for A319
International Lease Finance (ILFC) is expected to be the launch customer for the International Aero Engines (IAE) V2500-A5-powered Airbus Industrie A319 passenger aircraft. In early January, ILFC placed a $1.5 billion order for up to 40 Airbus aircraft, including eight 124-seat A319s, with options for a further three ...
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Indonesia prepares to sell off IPTN stake
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE THE INDONESIAN Government hopes to sell up to 20% of state-owned aircraft manufacturer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) to foreign aerospace-investors after the year 2000. According to Dr Bacharuddin Habibie, company president and Indonesia's technology and research minister, 10-20% of IPTN will offered ...
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Shadin plans to certificate and produce 1940s German trainer
A TWO-SEAT light aircraft designed in Germany in 1942 and produced in Egypt since 1950 is to be certificated and produced in the USA for the training and recreation markets. Shadin Aircraft plans to build the Bucker Bestman Bu.181D (produced by Heliopolis Aircraft Factory as the M.1 Gomhouria) ...
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Bell makes LongRanger the basis for new 407
BELL HELICOPTER Textron Canada is modifying two Model 206L-4 LongRangers into certification-test aircraft for the new Model 407 light turbine. The first 407 is scheduled to be flown at Mirabel, Quebec, in the third week of June. Certification, is planned by the end of 1995, says programme ...
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Peregrine to press on with BD-10 despite accident
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA PEREGRINE FLIGHT International (PFI) is proceeding with plans to certificate the Bede BD-10 jet-powered light aircraft after determining the cause of the crash on 30 December 1994, in which the company's founder was killed. Investigators have concluded that the in-flight break-up of the aircraft ...
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AAI keeps up with the weather
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AAI SYSTEM Management (AAI/SMI) has introduced a next-generation automated weather-observing system (NEXWOS), aimed at more than 5,000 airports and 1,000 heliports worldwide. The NEXWOS is a commercial derivative of the company's ASOS automated weather-observing system, more than 1,000 of which are being produced for the US ...