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Avtech
Robert Horgan, who was previously shop manager with Raytheon Aircraft, has been appointed director of maintenance at Avtech Executive Flight Center, of McCollum Field, near Atlanta, Georgia. He replaces Dwayne Pittsenbarger, who has taken up a position with the US Federal Aviation Administration. Source: Flight International
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BFGoodrich
Steve Minor has been named contract administrator for the business and general-aviation sales group at BFGoodrich Avionics Systems, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Before joining the company, Minor was a contract administrator at Smiths Industries. Source: Flight International
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Delta
Delta Air Lines has named Frank Meditz regional manager for multi-national accounts - Europe, based in London, UK. He is now manager for corporate sales. Peter Hannaford is appointed manager for multi-national and key accounts, also based in London. He now holds the position of account executive - London. Roman ...
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America West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has appointed David Huntzinger vice-president of corporate safety. He was formerly responsible for the design, development, deployment and monitoring of advanced methods for improving safety management and safety programmes at US airframe manufacturer Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, and has also worked for Bell Helicopter.. ...
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Ronson
Thomas Sullivan has joined US fixed-base operator Ronson Aviation of Trenton, New Jersey, as vice-president of sales and charter operations. He has also been vice-president for eastern aircraft sales for Learjet aircraft and vice-president of marketing at American Aerospace Industries and Raytheon Beechcraft. Source: Flight International
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Unit records HUMS
SEAKR Engineering of the USA has introduced a flight-data/voice recorder which can record data for a health and usage monitoring system (HUMS). The solid-state device consists of a signal-acquisition unit and crash-survivable memory unit, with a separate solid-state memory for HUMS recording. Source: Flight International
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Crash report
A UK Department of Transport and Environment air-accident report into the Learjet 25B business-jet crash at RAF Northolt has blamed the lack of crew-resource management (CRM) as one of the major causes. The incident occurred on 13 August, 1996, when the Spanish-owned aircraft overran the runway and collided with a ...
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Span addes Beeches
Indian feeder air-taxi operator Span Aviation has acquired six used aircraft from Raytheon, four Beech King Air B200s and two Beech 1900Cs, in a deal worth $15 million. Source: Flight International
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Swedish Emb-145 buy
Sweden's City Air has bought an Embraer EMB-145 regional jet, with options on four more, for delivery in July. Embraer has firm orders for 133 aircraft and options for an additional 198. Source: Flight International
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A collection of Caravelles are in temporary storage
Sir - I refer to the entry for the Aerospatiale (Sud Aviation) Caravelle in the Ageing Airliner Census 1997 (Flight International, 9-15 July, P37). At the time of the survey there were only seven (not 24) Caravelles in commercial service (five in Colombia with two operators and two ...
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Boeing 737 exits: JAA yet to decide
Sir - I wish to express my concern at the article "Boeing seating proposal for new 737 satisfied JAA" (Flight International, 9-15 July, P6). This gives the wrong impression that Boeing's recent proposal for a new Type III exit satisfies the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). I would like to ...
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What's on
Routes Oslo 97 15-16 September, Oslo, Norway. Route-planning forum organised by Airline Business and Airport Strategy and Marketing (ASM). Contact: ASM; tel: +44 (161) 832 2120; fax: +44 (161) 839 4252. Technology and the Flight Deck Symposium 5-6 August, Vancouver, Canada. Contact: Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, Suite ...
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Protest delays NASA Bantam contracts
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A PROTEST FROM a losing bidder has delayed NASA plans to award four initial-design contracts for its Bantam low-cost launch-system demonstrator. California-based Microcosm has filed a formal protest with the US Congress General Accounting (GA) office over NASA's decision to award Aerojet General, ...
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Columbia sets records
The STS94/Columbia landed at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on 17 July after its flawless 16-day reflight of the Microgravity Space Laboratory, with more than 30 high-technology materials, protein crystal and other experiments similar to those which will be operated on the International Space Station. The ...
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Spacewalk in August will be used to restore Mir power
Tim Furniss/FLORIDA Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradev will perform a 6h internal spacewalk in the connecting node/airlock of the Mir space station on 20 August, in an attempt to restore the station's electrical power to 70% of its normal output. Equipment to support the task arrived ...
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Vantai carries out 10,000th fire test
Russia's Vantai Machinery-Building Factory in Vantai has successfully performed its 10,000th rocket test firing. Since 1961, the plant, 565km (350 miles) from Samara, has been responsible for testing the rocket engines for all Russian launchers. Anatoly Anenkov, the factory's general director, says that the most powerful engined tested has been ...