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Advantage ATI
The Aerospace community has a seemingly insatiable demand for ever more high-value information, delivered with ever greater frequency and speed. Nowhere is this demand more visible than in the airline sector, where information (on competitors, suppliers and customers) has become as powerful a competitive tool as any. Historically, the ...
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Proper fractions
One of the biggest revolutions ever to hit the air-transport industry came when airlines realised that, to run a profitable business, you no longer had to own your own aircraft, but merely to own the access to aircraft. Leasing was the key: let somebody else own the aircraft; even let ...
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Keeping air traffic flowing
Sir - In a recent weekday attempt to recover an unpressurised jet transport from the Mediterranean area to the UK, France's Paris Control objected to the flight plan because the route did not conform to the traffic-orientation scheme (TOS-17). It was explained that the flightplan route was selected to avoid ...
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Expanding European egos
Sir - The Comment page on the proposed Boeing/McDonnell Douglas merger (Flight International, 21-27 May) highlights the way in which Europe is set to go. The inflated egos of European Commissioners grow larger day by day. Not only are they intent on poking their noses into every aspect ...
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Electromagnetic hazards
Sir - Much has been documented about the effects of electromagnetic interference on modern aircraft-navigation systems, particularly those elements of the "glass-cockpit" electronic flight-instrument system, and how to deal with those problems. It has been only recently that passengers have become aware of the effects of electromagnetic interference. ...
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Chipmunks stay the course
Sir - Private owners have long made long-distance flights in De Havilland Chipmunks (Flight International, 14-20 May). In the USA in 1983, three privately owned Chipmunks were flown from Alberta, Canada, to Clark County Airport, Indiana, USA. All of them were flown over a distance of 2,700km (1,455nm), ...
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Raytheon
Gary Hart is president of Raytheon Travel Air, the USA company's fractional-ownership programme, based at Wichita, Kansas (Flight International, 11-17 June). He was previously vice-president - operations at Business Jet Solutions. He heads a team including vice-presidents Bill Wallisch (controller), formerly manager - financial analysis at Raytheon; Curtis Schalk (operations), ...
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ILS
Richard Tham has become region manager, Asia Pacific, by Inventory Locator Service (ILS) of Memphis, Tennessee. Besides being responsible for ILS representatives in his region, Tham will still handle sales in ILS online services in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed
Dr Brian Dailey has been named vice-president for strategic development, at US aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin. He succeeds Dr John Egan, who is to retire in 1998, and was previously vice-president, business development for the company's space and strategic-missiles sector. The company has also created the new post of vice-president ...
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Simuflite
Simulflite International Training of the USA has promoted James Huntoon, who has been with the company for three years. He becomes regional sales manager, mid-Atlantic region, and will be based in a new regional sales office at Lane Aviation Corporation, Columbus International Airport, Ohio. Source: Flight ...
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PBN
UK-based aircraft manufacturer Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) has appointed Walter Stark chief executive. He has been with PBN since 1988, and was previously sales and marketing director - a function which he will continue to carry out. Stark's appointment follows the departure of the company's managing director Anthony Stansfield. ...
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Delta
Edward West takes the new position of vice-president - financial planning and analysis at Delta Air Lines of the USA. Hiram Cox takes West's former job of corporate controller for the Atlanta, Georgia- based company. Cox was formerly managing director of the Delta Shuttle service, operating between New York City, ...
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Trilectron
Ground-support equipment company Trilectron Industries, of Palmetto, Florida, has made three new appointments. John Moore joins as regional sales manager for Asia, the Pacific Rim and certain North American accounts. He comes from Air-A-Plane Cor-poration, where he was director of marketing and sales. Acting chief of sales and marketing at ...
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Flying display
Wednesday 18 June 1300: Breitling aerobatic display 1314: Extra 300S 1319: Sukhoi SU-29M 1327: Cayliss 1331: Robinson helicopter 1338: NHIndustries NH90, Eurocopter EC120, EC135, Tigre 1355: Socata TBM-700, Tangara 1402: Airbus A319, A340 1416: Dassault Falcon 900, Falcon 2000, ...
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Lockheed signs huge Russian rocket deal
Lockheed Martin has stunned the space industry with an exclusive deal to buy 101 Russian RD-180 rocket engines worth $1 billion. The unprecedented purchase enforces the company's "…resolve to win the US Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)" contract next June, says Mel Brashears, president and chief executive ...
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C172 autopilot
Texas-based flight control system and avionics specialist S-TEC has received US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certfication for its System Twenty, Thirty, Thirty ALT and System 40, 50 and 55 autopilots in the Cessna 172R. Source: Flight International
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Honeywell for LM200
Ayres and FedEx have selected Honeywell's SPZ-5000 integrated avionics system for the Loadmaster LM200 freighter. The suite will include the IC-500 Integrated Avionics Computer, which combines the functions of autopilot, flight director and display processor, and Honeywell's Primus II navigation/communication radios and Primus 440 colour weather radar. The LM200 is ...