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Australian plea
Sir - The Australian Naval Aviation Museum has commissioned a history of the RAN Fleet Air Arm.We urgently need stories and photographs to ensure a well-balanced account of events from all angles. All material will require a covering letter of approval to print, and full copyright, sent to PO Box ...
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'Supermen' made by the market
Sir - I wonder at the amount of talk of pilots' salaries. We are not "supermen". Pay is dictated by the market. About four years are needed to build up a pilot who meets the minimum professional standards. There is a dropout rate of more than 80% and, ...
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GB Airways
Peter Kenworthy has been appointed commercial director of GB Airways, of Gatwick Airport, Sussex, UK. With GB Airways (a franchise partner with British Airways) since 1993, Kenworthy has held managerial positions with British Airways and Birmingham European Airways. Source: Flight International
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Plane handling/air transat
Seen, left to right, are Richard Meakes, manager of operations for UK company Plane Handling, of Feltham, Middlesex; Mark Bright, general manager for Air Cargo Partners, representing Air Transat cargo sales in the south of England; and Pat Heslop, general manager for Plane Handling. Plane Handling will undertake cargo-handling activities ...
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Northrop
William Brackney has been appointed vice-president for business operations and Wylie Smith vice-president for finance at the Electronic Sensors and Systems division of Northrop Grumman, of Los Angeles, California. They will be based at Baltimore, Maryland. Brackney, most recently vice-president for business management on the B-2 bomber programme, joined the ...
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Messier-Dowty
Messier-Dowty International, the landing-gear joint venture of TI Group of the UK and Snecma of France, has appointed Jean-Luc Engerand engineering and quality director. He replaces Jacques Veau, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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American West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Ron Cole vice-president of sales. He was formerly vice-president of marketing sales at Reno Air and, before that, served for 21 years with American Airlines. Source: Flight International
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JcAIR
Steve Wilson has been appointed president and general manager of BFGoodrich Aerospace's test-equipment supplier, JcAIR Test Systems division of New Century, Kansas. He was vice-president of sales and marketing at BFGoodrich Aerospace Avionics Systems in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Source: Flight International
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P&W
Engine manufacturer United Technologies Pratt & Whitney, of East Hartford, Connecticut, has named James Taiclet vice-president for military after-sales service. Taiclet, a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and a former Lockheed C-141 flight-examiner pilot, will be based in San Antonio, Texas. Source: Flight International
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Nepal invite
The Nepalese Government has invited the country's fast-growing domestic-airline industry to submit proposals for new international flights. Source: Flight International
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Delta tie-up
Delta Air Lines, Austrian and Malev Hungarian Airlines have begun code-share/blocked-space service on Delta's daily Boeing 767 flights between Atlanta, Vienna and Budapest. Source: Flight International
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Codeshare deal
Continental Airlines and World Airways plan to begin code sharing from early June on World's flights from New York Newark to Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, Dublin and Shannon. Source: Flight International
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Small-aircraft owners catch on to self-fuelling
PERRY MAINTENANCE has purchased self-service-refuelling specialist Cornerstone and formed a new division, Perry Aviation Refueling (PAR). Fuel supplier Air BP, meanwhile, has launched a self-service aviation fuel card, which customers will be able to use at selected fixed-base operators (FBOs). Indiana-based PAR says that self-service refuelling at FBOs ...
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GATX seeks approval for 747F modification
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA GATX/AIRLOG HOPES to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for a modification to its Boeing 747 freighter conversion by mid-1996. An initial attempt to obtain relief with an airworthiness directive (AD) limiting gross weight failed, and the company is conducting additional structural analysis. ...