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Inmarsat-P
Inmarsat-P, set up earlier this year to implement a global mobile telephone service, has moved into its new headquarters in west London and appointed 40 new staff including several senior executives. Jai Singh is executive vice-president and programme director, Michael Whiddett becomes senior vice-president and chief financial officer, Victor Barendse ...
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Eurocontrol
Arnold Vandenbroucke has taken up a five-year appointment as director of the Eurocontrol Air Traffic Control Centre in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The control centre guides air traffic over Benelux and northwest Germany in the upper air space, ie above 24,500ft (7,500m). Vand-enbroucke's previous job was administrator-director of the Belgian Airports ...
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Fedex
Michael Ducker has been promoted to senior vice-president of Federal Express' Asia Pacific division. He was formerly regional vice-president of operations in the South Pacific area. He takes over from Joseph McCarty, who, having held the Asia Pacific post since November 1991, moves to senior vice-president of the new Latin ...
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Kaman
Kaman Aerospace International has opened an office in Australia to support its aviation and high-technology activities in the Asia/Pacific region. It is based in the Unisys Building in Turner. Manager of the office will be Jack Costello, regional manager for Kaman and a retired US Navy captain. Source: ...
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Lockheed Martin
Thomas Salvaggio has joined Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems as director of business ethics. For the past three years he has served as resident manager at the Lockheed Air Terminal in Honolulu, Hawaii. Salvaggio's responsibilities will include establishing an effective business ethics programme and monitoring the company's ethics help line. ...
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Honeywell
Gary Kivela has been named vice-president of engineering for Honeywell's business and commuter aviation systems. Kivela joined Honeywell - then Sperry - in 1966 as an engineer, and has held several positions in systems and applications design and engineering management. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream
Ernie Santiago, has been appointed by Gulfstream as its regional sales manager, for the northwest of the USA and western Canada. He will be based at Long Beach, California. Santiago was previously with Cessna for 18 years. Source: Flight International
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Dassault
Dassault Falcon Jet in New Jersey has made three appointments. Randolph Kennedy takes up the new position of director, market development. His role will be to represent Falcon business jets to the secondary market (aircraft management companies, time-sharing organisations etc). David Salkovitz, has been appointed supervisor of interior design, and ...
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MDC
John Fugh is the new president of McDonnell Douglas (MDC) -China. His responsibilities will include overseeing the marketing and manufacturing operations of McDonnell's commercial aircraft division. Fugh was previously a partner with US law firm McGuire, Woods, Battle and Boothe, and before that, judge advocate general of the US Army. ...
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Ansett revives
The Ansett Group has revealed that its Australian and New Zealand airline operations both ended their year to the end of June showing significant profits. Ansett Australia reported an A$98 million ($74 million) operating profit, despite the repayment of A$250 million in debt and starting up of the carrier's new ...
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MHI takes major share in Dash 8-400 programme
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE has signed up Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as a major risk-sharing partner in its recently launched de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop programme. The Japanese company will be responsible for the design and manufacture of the aircraft's forward-, mid- and aft-fuselage sections, wing-to-body fairing, and vertical ...
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Italy stays in the doldrums
FIRST HALF FIGURES from Italy show only a marginally better performance for the country's beleaguered aerospace and aviation industries, with Alitalia and Finmeccanica making little inroad into their losses. Alitalia's airline operations lost another L197 billion ($122 million) over the half. Although the loss is a marked improvement ...
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RAF thinks again on Jaguar upgrade
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IS re-examining an engine upgrade programme for its Sepecat Jaguar GR1A/1B strike aircraft, in response to continued delays to the Eurofighter 2000 programme.The Jaguar is destined to be replaced by the Eurofighter. The RAF had previously studied a Jaguar re-engining programme in 1992, under ...
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Europeans in split over Asian regional plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE DAIMLER-BENZ (DASA) has withdrawn from the European team competing to develop a new 100-seat regional aircraft with China and South Korea, after failing to solve major differences with its partners. The German manufacturer could not agree on a common proposal with Aerospatiale and ...
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Aer Lingus withdraws its last 747
AER LINGUS WITHDREW ITS last Boeing 747 from revenue service on a Boston-Shannon-Dublin flight on 1 October. The 747 entered service with the Irish carrier in December 1970 and, since then, the three aircraft in the fleet have carried 8 million passengers. All three aircraft are now in storage. Aer ...
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Boeing heads for 700-seater launch decision next year
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS considering launching a family of stretched 747 derivatives in 1996 if market conditions are right. The possible introduction of the 700-seat aircraft emerged in evidence given by British Airways to a public inquiry on the expansion of London Heathrow Airport. ...
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Air Inter to rename and restructure
FRENCH DOMESTIC carrier Air Inter is to be renamed Air Inter Europe on 1 January 1996, as part of the Air France Group's reorganisation plans. The airline will begin flights to several new destinations in Europe, the number increasing with the take-over of Air France's European routes in ...
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L-159 could be last solo for Czech Republic
AERO VODOCHODY general director Zdenek Chalupnik says that the new L-159 light attack aircraft could be the last aircraft to be developed and manufactured in the Czech Republic. In comments made at the first East-West Industrial Workshop in Prague - intended to establish a dialogue between the industries ...
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Crack causes delay in Trent 777 ETOPS tests
THE START OF extended-range twin-operations (ETOPS) testing of the Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Boeing 777 is to be delayed by "two to three weeks", says the engine maker, after a seal crack developed in the low-pressure (LP) turbine. The crack, in the seal arm of the LP1 turbine disc, ...
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ValuJet goes back to MDC and Boeing as Airbus waits
VALUJET HAS re-opened negotiations with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) and Boeing after failing to reach agreement with Airbus over the seemingly imminent sale of up to 25 A319s. The negotiations with Airbus, were expected to be sealed by the beginning of October, but appear to have foundered, primarily ...