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Simona
Sunjoo Advani has been appointed director of the International Centre for Research in Simulation, Motion and Navigation Technologies (SIMONA), of Delft, the Netherlands. Advani, programme manager (and primary founder) of SIMONA since 1992, replaces Max Baarspul. Source: Flight International
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Northwest
Northwest Airlines, of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, has appointed Jeff McClelland vice- president for system-operations control. An ex-US Navy aviator and with Northwest since 1991, he was most recently vice-president for planning and finance for the technical-operations department. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Gaylon Chamberlain has been appointed director of standards at Flushing, New York-based FlightSafety's Cessna Citation Learning Center at Wichita, Kansas. He was previously a simulator/flight instructor for the Citation. Harry Houckes becomes assistant manager of the Savannah, Georgia, Learning Center. He joins the firm from Mobil Oil, where he was ...
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MDC
Gerald Daniels has become vice-president and general manager of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 strike-fighter programme. He succeeds Michael Sears, who has been named president of MDC's commercial aircraft company. Daniels was previously deputy to Sears on the F-18. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon
Raytheon Corporate Jets, the UK subsidiary of Wichita, Kansas-based Raytheon Aircraft, has named Ian Atkinson manager of its new Hawker service centre at Chester, in the UK. He was formerly with Metro Business Aviation, based at London Heathrow Airport, responsible for engineering services. Source: Flight International
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Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy
Sir - I read the article "Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy as Airworld hires Canadians for A320s" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P8). I can surmise the reasons behind the decision, although why the UK Department of Education and Employment (DEE) should be so coy is elusive. ...
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Derlan contracts
Derlan Aerospace Canada has been awarded two contracts, worth $16 million, by Boeing Helicopters. The larger, $11.2 million, contract covers the supply of parts for 47 dynamic-component upgrade kits for US Navy and Marine Corps Boeing CH-46 helicopters. The second is for the manufacture of spare CH-46 ring gears. ...
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More CATIAS for BAe
British Aerospace Military Aircraft division has placed a £13 million ($19.5 million) order with IBM for around 500 CATIA computer-aided-design workstations, to add to the 200 it already uses. Source: Flight International
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Trimble markets
Trimble is to market Wichita-based Mid-Continental Instrument's MD 41 global-positioning-system (GPS) annunciator for use with its 2000-series GPS navigators. Source: Flight International
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Boeing suspension
New York-based EDO has received a $1.1 million subcontract to support Boeing Defense & Space Group's Military Airplanes division in development of new weapon-suspension and -release equipment for future combat aircraft under the US Air Force's Weapons Carriage Technology programme. Source: Flight International
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Cessna first
Cessna has flown the first Model 172 piston-single to be produced since 1986. The pilot-production aircraft, flown on 16 April, will be used for flight tests leading to recertification of the 172. Roll-out of the first 172 built at Cessna's new Independence, Kansas, piston-single plant is due in December. ...
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Learjet's second 45
Learjet flew the second Model 45 light business-aircraft on 6 April and says that the first flight of the third of five test aircraft is imminent. Flight-test delays have pushed certification back to January 1996, the end of parent company Bombardier's financial year. Source: Flight International
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All bark and no bite?
Demands on the European Commission to protect smaller or new entrant airlines from anti-competitive behaviour could increase with the recent rise in startup activity. But is the Commission equipped for the task? By Trevor Soames.Europe has come a long way since the third package of air transport liberalisation measures swept ...
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Latin American lead
Increasingly creative financial mechanisms and new products that insure against political and contractual risks, are providing incentives for private sector investment in Latin American and Caribbean airports. By Ellis Juan.As the air transport sector continues its rapid expansion in an increasingly globalised economy, the entry of fast-growing new participants like ...
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Europe's cost crisis
What does it take to ensure the start up of a profitable low-cost carrier in Europe? Hugh Parry looks at the pitfalls and compares the cost of operating in Europe to what is on offer in the US.Imagine an airline based at London/Heathrow flying to Paris 15 times a ...
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Dealing in Deutsche marks
The German tax lease market is growing, and providing an important source of aircraft funds, but there are fears that any liberties taken with structures could lead to tighter regulation by the tax authorities. Trevor French reports.It doesn't often happen that the arcane world of aircraft finance hits the front ...
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Mixed fortunes
Last year, the 100 largest regional airlines in the world carried 124 million passengers, employed 87,000 people, and flew 2,700 jet and turboprop aircraft. Only just over half provided revenue figures and even fewer divulged profits, but among those that did report financial figures, revenues grew 14.8 per cent to ...
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Upstaging PIA
Pakistan Pakistan's private carriers, launched less than three years ago, have ruffled the feathers of state-owned Pakistan International Airlines and transformed the country's airline industry. Sandeep Singh reports.Before the government's liberalisation policy opened up the aviation sector to aggressive entry by the private sector three years ago, the mandarins of ...