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Hughes
Marcy Tiffany has been named general counsel of Los Angeles, California-based Hughes Electronics, succeeding John Higgins, who is to retire. Tiffany also becomes a corporate vice-president. For the past six years, she has been US trustee for the Central District of California. Source: Flight International
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Sabena
Marc Petit has been appointed executive vice-president of finance at Belgian national carrier Sabena with effect from 20 October. He is to succeed Peter Ramel, who will take up other responsibilities within the SAIR Group. Petit was general manager of Eridania Oilseeds division of the Eridania Behin-Say Group of Ravenna, ...
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US Airways
Frederick Sine is Arlington, Virginia-based USAirways' new vice-president for line maintenance, in charge of the day-to-day maintenance of the carrier's fleet. For the past two years he has been executive vice-president of Atlanta, Georgia-based aircraft-parts supplier Avatar Alliance. Source: Flight International
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Rand
Natalie Crawford has become a vice-president of Santa Monica, California-based "think-tank" Rand and director of Project Air Force (PAF), one of its principal research divisions. Crawford, a Rand analyst since 1964, succeeds Brent Bradley as director of PAF. Bradley will work with Rand president and chief executive James Thomson on ...
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Northrop
Northrop Grumman has promoted three executives at its Commercial Aircraft division. Bill McKenna has become vice-president and site manager of the division's site in Milledgeville, Georgia; Tom Risley is now vice-president and integrated-product team (IPT) leader for empennage programmes, based in Dallas, Texas; and Mark Tucker has been appointed vice-president, ...
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Transworld
Components and spare-parts supplier Transworld Aviation, based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has appointed Stephane Tillon business-development manager. He was formerly sales manager of a UK-based export aviation firm. Source: Flight International
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AAR
AAR Advanced Structures (ASD), of Wood Dale, Illinois, has named Ron Kelner president and general manager of its cargo-loading-system factory in Livonia, Michigan. He joins ASD from Outokumpu Copper Kenosha, where he had profit and loss responsibility for a $70 million business. Source: Flight International
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team GCAS
Teledyne Controls and Dassault Electronique have signed an agreement to jointly market and support the French company's recently developed Ground Collision Avoidance System (GCAS). Dassault will manufacture the GCAS and support the product throughout territories of the world not covered by the agreement with Teledyne. Source: ...
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Viking supports DHC-6
British Columbia-based Viking Air is to manufacture wing subassemblies for the de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter under contract to Bombardier. The Twin Otter has been out of production since 1986, but has a life-limited wing. Source: Flight International
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Mahalo Air ceases
Hawaiian regional Mahalo Air has ceased operations after it reportedly missed an insurance payment. It is understood that the airline will require some $1.5 million to relaunch services, and it is in negotiation with potential investors. Mahalo, which operated seven Aero International (Regional) ATR 42s, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...
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EU Approves Takeover
The European Commission has approved the proposed take-over of Air UK by KLM, saying that the acquisition would have hardly any influence on competition within Europe. KLM has owned 45% of Air UK shares since 1988 and is now cleared to acquire the rest. Source: Flight ...
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'Outsiders' cannot asses problems
Sir - I was shocked to read the letter from Mr Lunan (Flight International, 24-30 September, P61), which was full of confusing "buzz words". I do not agree with the contentious premise that an agency, outside the airline industry, can diagnose that industry's employment problems - or define ...
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Daewoo frames 747
Daewoo Heavy Industries has signed an agreement worth $100 million with Northrop Grumman to continue supplying fuselage frames for the upper deck of the Boeing 747-400 until 2006. The South Korean company has already delivered 500 shipsets, each containing 48 frames Source: Flight International
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Guided robots
Leica of Switzerland has introduced a rugged global-positioning-system unit for industrial robots. The MCS1000 is a 12-channel receiver using real-time kinematic processing to size millimetre-accuracy in three dimensions, claims Leica. Source: Flight International
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Cells see light
New dual-junction gallium-arsenide solar cells developed by Spectrolab of the USA have been used for the first time on the recently launched PamAmSat PAS-5 satellite, which has 15,000 cells generating 10kW of power, doubling the efficiency of silicon-based cells traditionally used for spacecraft solar panels. Source: ...
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Apache displays
APACHE DISPLAYS Boeing AH-64 Apache Longbow was flown for the first time on 12 September fitted with four-colour flat-panel multi-purpose displays (MPDs) developed by AlliedSignal Guidance and Control Systems of New Jersey. The test flight, at Mesa, Arizona, marked the start of an upgrade which will result in all ...
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United nears deal
United Airlines has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots' union allowing its United Express codeshare partners to operate regional jets. United pilots will vote on the deal by mid-November. United Express carriers Atlantic Coast Airlines and Mesa Air Group already have 50-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets on order. ...
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Thomson delay
The French Government has delayed until mid-October its decision on the future of defence-electronics giant Thomson-CSF. Source: Flight International
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Australian sale
The Australian Government has put 15 smaller airports up for sale, after selling Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth airports for A$3.3 billion ($2.4 billion). Winning bidders for the airports, which include Adelaide, Canberra and Darwin, are expected to be announced in February 1998. The sales are expected to raise up to ...