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Fineminster
Nick Probin has been named commercial director at Gatwick-based aircraft-leasing and charterering firm Fineminster Europe. He was formerly a commercial executive and, before that worked for Air UK and Air Europe. Source: Flight International
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Southern Air
Robert Peart has been elected senior vice-president of finance and corporate planning at Southern Air Transport, of Columbus, Ohio. He was previously the company's vice-president of finance and treasurer. Thomas Gilles is named vice-president of operations. He was formerly systems operations co-ordinator with Air Florida. Source: ...
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FLS Aerospace
Stephen Lee has been named vice-president of maintenance services at UK-based maintainer FLS Aerospace, with effect from 1 June. He is now director and general manager of Dowty Aerospace Aviation Services. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal
Alan Dietrich has been appointed vice-president of government operations and marketing at AlliedSignal Aerospace, of Torrance, California. Pat Hurley succeeds him as vice-president and general manager of the Communications Systems business of AlliedSignal's Electronic Systems. Earl Major is named vice-president of quality assurance, and Michael Anderson becomes director of operations ...
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Flying scholarships
The UK Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators is administering flying scholarships, for which applications are invited, as follows: ntwo, sponsored by Breitling Chronographs and the Swire Group, will provide fully funded courses of flying and ground training in accordance with the 40h UK Civil Aviation Authority-approved ...
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World
World Airways has named Russell Ray interim president and chief executive officer. He has held senior executive positions at Pan Am, McDonnell Douglas and Eastern, and has served on World's board for four years. The US charter carrier recently terminated the contract of Charles Pollard, who had planned to leave ...
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AlliedSignal excels
Cessna has selected AlliedSignal Engines' RE100 auxiliary power-unit as optional equipment for the Citation Excel business jet. The RE100 is also available on the Learjet 45. Source: Flight International
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ASJP integration
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems has won an $86.3 million US Air Force contract to integrate the ITT Avionics/Northrop Grumman Airborne Self-Protection Jammer (ASPJ) on to 80 Lockheed Martin F-16Cs sold to South Korea. In January, the US joint venture disclosed the sale of the ALQ-165 electronic-countermeasures system to the ...
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KC/RC-135 re-engineing
CFM International, the joint venture involving General Electric Engines and Snecma, could receive as much as $1.1 billion from the US Air Force up to 2002 to provide 267 CFM56 turbofans for Boeing KC-135 tankers and RC-135 Rivet Joint-Surveillance aircraft. As part of the re-engineing work, the joint venture received ...
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JSTARS award
Greenwich Air Services has received an additional $9 million from the US Air Force to convert six Pratt & Whitney JT3Ds to the TF33-102B engine configuration for use on the Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance, Target Attack radar system (JSTARS) aircraft. The work includes repair, overhaul and modifications necessary to ...
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BEA recovers
BE Aerospace swung back into profit for 1996 after a couple of years of losses as it attempted to consolidate its break-neck expansion in cabin-interior equipment and in-flight-entertainment systems. Net profits came in at $13.7 million for its financial year to February 1997, turning around a loss of $83 million ...
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Smiths advance
The surge in Boeing deliveries helped profits at the Smiths Industries aerospace business, where core contracts include the 737 flight -management system (FMS). Profits were up by one-third at nearly ú23 million for the half year to the end of January. Smiths says that it is actively looking for new ...
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Beyond the pilot
THE TRAINING of maintenance personnel needed to service sophisticated aircraft is no longer a matter of using chalk, a blackboard and a box full of surplus parts. With the rapid, accurate detection, diagnosis and correction of faults becoming increasingly important to the turnaround time of an airliner or military aircraft ...
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Grob modifies G115 after unauthorised repaint causes crash
German composite aircraft maker Burkhart Grob has modified the rudders on aerobatic G115s to overcome restrictions imposed after a fatal crash caused by an unauthorised repaint. The US Federal Aviation Administration banned G115C and D pilots from performing aerobatics, following the loss of a G115D-1 in Florida in ...
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GV certification
Gulfstream Aerospace has received full US certification for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. Provisional certification was granted in December 1996, pending completion of flight testing, allowing deliveries of "green" GVs to begin. The first completed GVs are due to enter service in the second quarter of 1997. Gulfstream had ...
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Rutan Boomerang returns interest
BURT RUTAN is evaluating two requests to take his Boomerang asymmetrical twin into production. The twin-boom aircraft was originally built by Rutan's Scaled Composites as a one-off personal transport. Rutan says that he would make changes to the Boomerang before it entered production. These include a lower wing-loading; ...
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BFGoodrich leads avionics launches with SkyWatch
BFGOODRICH has launched its SkyWatch collision-avoidance system, which provides traffic alerts for aircraft within 11km (6nm). Priced at just under $25,000, the system uses its own transponder and directional antenna to interrogate other aircraft transponders. Traffic information is displayed on either a dedicated monochrome display, or superimposed on the display ...
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Flightstar unveils Cyclone
FLIGHTSTAR Sportplanes used Sun 'n Fun to introduce the German-designed Ikarus C-42 Cyclone sport aircraft to the US market. "The interest in the Cyclone has been far better than we expected," says Thomas Peghiny, chief executive of Ellington, Connecticut-based Flightstar, which is flight-testing the two-seater in preparation for certification and ...
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Estimates put the number of...
Estimates put the number of aircraft flown in to the USExperimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n Fun fly-in at Lakeland, Florida, at more than 4,000. Reports and photography by Dave HigdonSource: Flight International
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Diamond tests re-engined Katana
Diamond Aircraft is flight-testing its Katana two-seater with a Teledyne Continental engine. The fuel-injected 95kW (125hp) Continental IO-240 has transformed the Katana DA20-C1 into an aggressive performer, with climb rates of up to 1,050 ft/min (5.3m/s) at maximum gross weight - more than 50% better than the performance achieved with ...