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Kaman
Adm. Huntington Hardisty (USN, ret), a director of Kaman Corporation, of Bloomingfield, Connecticut, has become president of Kaman Aerospace International. He was commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Command until he retired in early 1991. Harvey Levenson, president and chief operating officer of Kaman Corporation, is to retire at the end ...
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Raytheon
James Drumgool has been named vice-president for international marketing and president of Raytheon International, of Lexington, Massachusetts. He was previously vice-president of international marketing for Martin Marietta and president of Martin Marietta International. Scott Kalister becomes vice-president for international sales, Latin America/Far East at the Raytheon Aircraft division, of Wichita, ...
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Alliant
Aerospace and defence company Alliant Techsystems, of Hopkins, Minnesota, has appointed Hugo Fruehauf Defense Systems Group vice-president. Fruehauf, formerly president of EFRATOM Time and Frequency Products, spent 13 years designing satellite systems at Rockwell International and served as chief engineer for the design and development of the US Air Force ...
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Satellite wars
Establishing mobile telephone networks via satellite is proving fiercely competitive. Tim Furniss/LONDON THE INCREASINGLY competitive market of worldwide, anywhere-to-anywhere, mobile telephone systems is expected to have generated revenues of $26 billion by 2005, and have over 33 million subscribers by 2012. It is, however, a market likely ...
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Ageing-airliner census
Compiled by Martin Fendt/Jennifer Pite/LONDON THIS SURVEY SHOWS THAT there has been a growth in the number of aging jet-powered aircraft in service (aged 15 years or older), from 5,204 in 1994 to 5,671 in 1995 - an increase of 467. The figures for turboprops are 2,509 and ...
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Teams aim for the stars
AT LEAST THREE US industry teams will bid for a multi-million-dollar contract to modernise the US Federal Aviation Administration's terminal radar-approach-control (TRACON) system, which handles aircraft within 80km (45nm ) of US airports. The aviation agency's upcoming standard terminal-automation-replacement system (STARS) competition involves the upgrade of more ...
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USA offers ramjet sweetener to UK
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE US GOVERNMENT has agreed to transfer to the UK development of an advanced ramjet for its future medium-range air-to-air missile programme, but how much of this work would be performed in Europe remains under debate. Hughes plans to offer an extended-range derivative ...
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MDC steps into Delilah programme
ISRAELI DEFENCE manufacturer TAAS and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are to collaborate in developing a series of variants of the former's Delilah standoff decoy unmanned air vehicle. The prime objective of the move will be to produce stand-off-weapon derivatives of the Delilah, according to one source. Neither company is ...
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New broom sweeps Nigeria Airways
Gunter Endres/LONDON THE NIGERIAN Government has sacked the entire management team, at loss making Nigeria Airways and dismissed the chief executives and other senior managers at the Federal Civil Aviation Authority and the Nigeria Airports Authority. Aviation minister Air Cdre Nsisak Eduok has announced that the ...
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Joining the FANS club
Qantas has been proving FANS equipment and refining procedures. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY/LOS ANGELES AIRLINE PLANNERS AND civil-aviation authorities understand the long-term benefits of future-air-navigation-systems (FANS) technology. Early unease among pilot unions over reduced separation standards and other aspects, however, suggests that some line crews may have been kept ...
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Raytheon's first
Raytheon Aircraft is claiming a breakthrough in business-jet design with the launch of its Premier I. Graham Warwick/WICHITA RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S new Premier I light business-jet is not a Beech, nor a Hawker. It is the first all-new aircraft to carry the Raytheon name and, for the year-old ...
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Crystaloid aims to improve LCD readability
A PROCESS SAID, to improve the readability of avionics displays and tackles the so-called "white-shirt effect", often encountered by pilots, has been developed by Crystaloid, of Ginsbury, UK. The firm says that the process relies on a technique called "thin-film index matching" to achieve improved uniformity between indium/tin ...
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Training: two sides of the coin
Sir - I read the article "UK schools angry at US training plan" (Flight International, 13-19 September, P20), in which the General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association's (GAMTA) chief executive, Graham Forbes, expresses his members' concerns over what they perceive as unfair competition. I do not expect the ...
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RoSEC predicts leap in engine-control quality
Andrew Doyle/DERBY ROLLS SMITHS Engine Controls (RoSEC) is developing a next-generation electronic-engine-control (EEC) unit, which, it claims, will offer a 20% improvement in "functionality" and weigh significantly less than the device it has already completed for the BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engine. Functionality is defined as the ...
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Logistics merger
Raytheon is to merge the aviation-services operations of Raytheon Aircraft and E-Systems' Serv-Air subsidiary. The merger of Serv-Air's Greenville, Texas, unit with Raytheon Aerospace, formerly Beech Aircraft Services, will create a logistic-support company with 4,300 employees worldwide. Source: Flight International
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Gull heads For Russia
Parker Bertea Aerospace's Gull Electronic Systems division is to help Russia develop the infrastructure for flight inspection of navigation aids, including definition of the interface between Gull's automatic flight-inspection system and Russian aircraft. Source: Flight International
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DRA completes initial VCS display assessment
THE UK DEFENCE Research Agency (DRA) has completed initial flight tests of a visually coupled system (VCS) helmet-mounted display fitted to one of its experimental Westland Lynx helicopters. The tests are being carried out to assess the potential for using such a system for tactical flights at night ...
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3-D model used for F-22 testing
A THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) computer-generated "ballistic vulnerability analysis model" of the Lockheed/ Boeing F-22 next-generation air-superiority fighter is being used to determine the aircraft's ability to withstand weapons damage. The model was developed by the Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Vulnerability Team to show which sections of the aircraft are vulnerable ...
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Edgley Aeronautics takes the floor to build prototype glider
Andrew Doyle/LONDON EDGLEY AERONAUTICS has developed a "revolutionary" method for fabricating light aircraft, using Fibrelam structural sandwich panels, the standard material for commercial-aircraft flooring made by Ciba Composites. The UK company has employed the technique to build its prototype mid-performance glider - the EA9, backed ...
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Rockwell signs up for uncooled-IR deal
ROCKWELL'S ELECTRO-Optical Center has signed a licence agreement with Honeywell, involving the transfer of Honeywell's uncooled microbolometer infra red (IR) technology for production by Rockwell. Rockwell, Inframetics, Honeywell and the New Jersey institute of Technology plan to demonstrate uncooled focal-plane arrays (FPAs) in Inframetics' commercial systems. The two-dimensional ...