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Bristol
Mark Bills and Paul Davies are the new operations manager and health and safety manager, respectively, at Bristol Airport, in the UK. Bills were previously at the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Davies is an examiner with the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health. Source: ...
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Raytheon
Martin Lee has been appointed to the new position of business-development manager at the Chester North Wales, UK, site of Raytheon Corporate Jets, of Wichita, Kansas. He formerly held a similar position at technical and commercial-aviation support company the International Bureau of Aviation. Source: Flight International
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US Air Force
US President Bill Clinton has announced the nomination of Keith Hall, of Millersville, Maryland, to the post of assistant secretary of the Air Force for Space at the US Department of Defense. He was appointed deputy director and acting director of the National Reconnaissance Office in February. ...
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Flight visions
Flight Visions, of Sugar Grove, Illinois, which designs, manufactures and markets commercial and military head-up display systems, has established an international office in Prague, Czech Republic. Headed by engineer Jiri Brabec, it will service the firm's global customer base, which includes the Czech Republic, Egypt, Poland, Switzerland and Tunisia. ...
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Simuflite
SimuFlite Training International, of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Robert Freeman manager of Learjet training. Freeman, a former US Federal Aviation Administration examiner, has been with SimuFlite since 1989, serving as a Learjet instructor pilot and lead instructor in the Westwind proggramme. He reports to Eugene Haggerty, vice-president of training ...
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IATA
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), has announced a new senior management team, following a board of governors meeting in May. Pierre Jeanniot is director-general and senior directors, are Kevin Dobby, for relationship management, John McCaffrey, for external relations, Karel Ledeboer, for operations and infrastructure, Tom Murphy, for customer and ...
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Arabasco
Arabasco of Saudi Arabia, responsible for the maintenance, operation and handling of the kingdom's corporate and private aircraft has appointed engineer Abdulrahman Ali-Suleiman Al-Hamdan as director-general. Graham Stephenson joins Arabasco as technical director. He was previously with national airline Saudia and Jet Aviation Saudi Arabia. Source: Flight International
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Tracor
Edward Rizzotti has been appointed vice-president and general manager of the Cross Systems division of electronic-warfare-systems manufacturer Tracor Aerospace, at Austin, Texas. He will be responsible for design and production of head-up display systems for helicopters. He joined the company in 1993 as director of business development. Before that, he ...
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Matra Marconi
Nick Franks has become deputy chief executive and managing director of Matra Marconi Space UK. Franks, who has been with the GEC Marconi Group for 16 years, was formerly managing director of GEC Marconi Aerospace (products group). Source: Flight International
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On the horizon
Science Applications International (SAIC) has bought Horizon Technologies' (HTI) Advanced Systems Group and Horizon Technologies Australia, producers of mission-planning and simulation systems. Source: Flight International
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Accessory sale
Aviall has completed the sale of its Miami-based aircraft-accessory repair business to Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems, as part of its plan to quit the engine- and component-repair business and focus on parts distribution. Source: Flight International
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Fertile ground
Canada's Radarsat has been such a success that a second satellite is planned. Tim Furniss/LONDON IN JUNE, CANADA'S Spar Aerospace-built remote-manipulator-system robot arm was operated on yet another Space Shuttle mission, the STS77/Endeavour. Marc Garneau, one of Canada's four space travellers, was aboard for the ...
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Virgin Express builds on EBA's success
EURO BELGIAN AIRLINES (EBA), the low-cost carrier acquired in April by Richard Branson to launch his long-awaited Virgin Express operation, has revealed figures for 1995 which show that its no-frills scheduled services captured more than 20% of the market on its key routes from Belgian capital Brussels. ...
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Fleet completes
Toronto-based Fleet Aerospace has completed the C$27 million ($19.9 million) purchase of Hawker Siddeley Canada's aerospace operations and formed Orenda Aerospace, consisting of Orenda, Middleton Aerospace and A-R Technologies. Source: Flight International
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TechniFlite launches simulator-on-wheels deal for regionals
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A mobile flight-simulator for the Raytheon Beech 1900D regional turboprop is to enter service in January 1997 with Denver, Colorado-based TechniFlite. It will be housed inside a tractor-trailer, which will be driven around the USA to provide on-site initial and recurrent pilot training. ...
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Jet setting
Following its N250 turboprop, IPTN has started work on an 80- to 130-seat regional jet, Paul Lewis reports from Bandung. In a country besieged with bureaucracy and straining to meet the transportation needs of its 190 million inhabitants, Bacharuddin Habibie, head of national aerospace manufacturer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara ...
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UK industry to launch research effort
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER YEARS of failing to win new Government funding for civil research-and-technology programmes, the UK's aerospace companies have taken matters into their own hands and launched a programme of industry-funded technology-demonstrator pilots. They hope that the UK Government will now help build the ...
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TEA extends its Vietnamese links
CHARTER AIRLINE TEA Switzerland has extended its association with Vietnam's second carrier, Pacific Airlines. Since 1 June the South East Asian airline has been wet-leasing a TEA Boeing 737-300, in addition to a 737-200 operated since December 1995. Pacific Airlines uses the TEA aircraft on domestic services ...