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Atlantic coast
United Express carrier Atlantic Coast Airlines, of Dulles, Virginia, has promoted Thomas Moore to executive vice-president and chief operating officer. John Cross becomes vice-president of technical services and Angie Shermer is named vice-president of sales. Eric Nordling becomes vice-president of market planning. Source: Flight International
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Sony
Airline-entertainment-systems and content provider Sony Trans Com has appointed Wade Hanniball as content technologist. Hanniball, who has 16 years' experience in Ìlm, video, audio and emerging technologies, joins the Sony division, based in Irvine, California, from film company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Source: Flight International
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Hughes
Charles Leader has been appointed president of Reston, Virginia-based Hughes Information Systems. He succeeds Wayne Shelton, who has led the division since its formation in 1995. Leader, a Hughes Aircraft corporate vice-president, has also been president of Hughes Information Technology Systems. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed
Aram Mika has become vice-president of business development and advanced programmes and technology at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California. He replaces John Dietz, who becomes vice-president and general manager of new Lockheed Martin Special Programs division. Source: Flight International
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Southampton
Southampton International Airport of the UK has established a new marketing team, headed by Jan Halliday. She now combines the head of marketing and of public-affairs roles. Halliday joined the UK airport three years ago as public-affairs manager. Also appointed at Southampton are John Carter, marketing manager; Josephine Steele, sales ...
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Northrop
Biggs Porter has been appointed vice-president for business management at Northrop Grumman's Dallas, Texas-based Commercial Aircraft division. Judith Northup becomes vice-president for Materiel Operations. Porter takes on his new role when Bill (Mac) McMillan, vice-president for business management, retires from the company on 31 May. Source: ...
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Dassault
Dassault Falcon Jet has promoted six members of its flight-operations department at Teterboro Airport, South Hackensack, New Jersey. Jerry Tritt becomes chief pilot - technical, responsible for technical and regulatory matters. David DeAngelis has been promoted to chief pilot for operations. His remit includes safety, standardisation, the flight-operations manual and ...
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Garrett
Brendon Docherty has been named avionics sales manager at Garrett Aviation Springfield. Docherty, who has 12 years' experience in avionics sales, was formerly director of sales and marketing and flight operations at Flight Visions, and also spent ten years with engine manufacturer AlliedSignal. Source: Flight International
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Israeli Astronaut
An Israeli air force colonel has been selected to train to fly as a payload specialist on a US NASA Space Shuttle mission in late 1998. The pilot, who is unidentified for security reasons, will conduct national science experiments provided by Israel, but the US space organisation will pay for ...
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Leading in space
France became the third nation in space to launch a national satellite on an indigenously developed booster - after the Soviet Union and the USA - on 26 November, 1995, and it has never looked back. The nation now employs over 13,000 people directly in space activities, 8,000 in industry, ...
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Simulator rivalry
When Thomson-CSF acquired the Rediffusion simulation business from Hughes Aircraft in 1993, the company became, at a stroke, the largest simulator manufacturer in Europe, and the world leader outside North America. Today, Thomson Training and Simulation (TTS) is competing fiercely in every market for simulators, and in 1996 ...
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Arms dynamism
Matra and British Aerospace started to discuss pulling together their respective guided-weapons units in 1992. It was to take four years of difficult negotiations, coupled with the occasional bout of brinkmanship, to conclude the deal. Despite the trials and tribulations, including those that still continue as two very ...
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Defence realms
The largest defence and professional electronics company in France, and also Europe, is Thomson-CSF. This majority-owned subsidiary of Thomson SA generated Fr36.3 billion ($6.28 billion)-worth of sales in 1996 (a 2.2% rise on 1995), with proÌts of $404 million. Of this, 65% was defence-related, around half of that being of ...
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Equipping for the future
In the past few years, the French aerospace- equipment industry has undergone a major restructuring programme involving one-third of its members - an achievement which has run alongside an improvement in its fortunes. According to GIFAS equipment industry president Jean-Robert Martin (who is also the president of Sextant ...
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Engine power
France has been in the aero-engine business as long as aircraft have been flying, and today the industry remains present in virtually every area of propulsion activity. The two principal companies, state-owned Snecma and privately owned Turboméca, provide power for civil and military aircraft, helicopters and space - the latter ...
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Helicopters on the rise
France's helicopter industry is poised for a comeback after several years of steadily declining fortunes during which, in common with helicopter manufacturers elsewhere, the recession hit civil and military sales particularly hard. In 1996, however, the industry saw real signs of progress, with orders up by an astonishing ...
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Franc facts
This year's Paris air show arguably comes at the most crucial time in France's post Second World War aerospace history. It now finds itself on the brink of a fundamental restructuring which will change forever the shape of the industry, not only in France, but throughout the whole of Europe. ...
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Doing the business
As France's only business-jet manufacturer, Dassault Aviation, is competing in a market that has become particularly hard fought. Not only are manufacturers in the USA introducing new products across-the-board, but others elsewhere in the world are knocking on the door of the traditional suppliers. The business decisions made ...
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Restructuringf or a European future
Just ten months after the scheme was launched by defence minister Charles Millon, France's ministry of defence has finished planning for a fundamental restructuring of the national armaments directorate, the Délégation Générale pour l'Armament (DGA). At the heart of what is a profound re-organisation of the way the ...