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Westinghouse
Dennis Ganzak has been appointed to the new position of chief financial officer at Westinghouse Electric's electronic-systems business unit, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was previously director of corporate restructuring on the staff of executive vice-president and chief financial officer Fredric Reynolds. ...
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Learjet
Roger Sperry has become vice-president of North American sales for Learjet, of Wichita, Kansas. He was previously with Cessna Aircraft. Gordon Carr becomes sales director at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, responsible for the northeastern USA. He was managing partner of the Rusk/Carr Aviation consultancy. Source: Flight International
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UNC
Gerry Czarnecki, president and chief operating officer of components manufacturer UNC, of Annapolis, Maryland, has been elected to the board of directors. Before taking his present position with UNC, he was senior vice-president of administration and human resources, at computer company IBM. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier
Gary Hart has been named vice-president for flight operations at Bombardier Aerospace/AMR Combs venture Business Jet Solutions of New York. He was formerly assistant vice-president of flight operations at AMR Combs Worldwide Flight Operations. Dennis Keith is appointed vice-president of marketing and sales. He was previously director of flight operations ...
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RAAF Harpoon Trainer
San Diego-based Horizons Technology has received a $500,000 Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) contract to integrate a Harpoon-missile training aid, produced by Delex Systems, with the mission-planning system for its General Dynamics F-111s. Source: Flight International
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Trident Work Expansion
An Alliant Techsystems/ Thiokol joint venture will produce propulsion systems for all three stages of the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile under a $123 million Lockheed Martin contract. Previously, the team produced only the first and second stages. Source: Flight International
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No Vacancies
No new cosmonauts have been selected by Russia, for the second year running, and at least nine of the 51 active cosmonauts - those trained to fly the now-cancelled Buran space shuttle - have no chance of flying, says the Russian Space Agency. Source: Flight International
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Baikonur Agreement
The Russian Federation Council has at last ratified an agreement with Kazakhstan to lease the Baikonur Cosmodrome for 20 years. Russia will pay Kazakhstan $115 million a year. Source: Flight International
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Confidential safety
Airbus Industrie is the first manufacturer to set up confidential reporting. David Learmount/LONDON Even co-operative airlines often withhold some information when the report incidents to the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) Safety Information Exchange, according to its administrator, Bob Woodhouse. Fear of litigation explains at least a part ...
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Launch options
In terms of getting aircraft airborne, both the US Navy and the Royal Navy are looking at several options in the replacement of the steam catapult with an electromagnetic launch system. In the USA, Kaman Electromagnetics is working on the Electro-Magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS). Project officials believe ...
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Westinghouse PMAWS
Westinghouse says that its AAR-54 passive missile-approach warning system successfully detected all missiles fired at it during a two-day live-fire demonstration conducted by the US Navy at its China Lake, California, test range. The missile-warning device, also known as the PMAWS-2000, was mounted on an USN QF-4 drone aircraft and ...
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Revenue Management
US regional airlines are being offered access to an automated revenue-management system without the need to make a capital investment. BehavHeuristics, which has supplied systems to USAir and Icelandair, claims that its ReArm ticket forecasting and optimisation software can increase an airline's revenue by between 2-5%. Airlines pay a connection ...
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Regional Uplift
Preliminary Regional Airlines Association statistics show that 125 US carriers flew 13.3% more revenue passenger kilometres in 1994, carrying 57.1 million passengers, an increase of 8.4%. Available seat kilometres were up by 9.6%, and average load factors increased by 3.3%. Only the number of carriers operating and airports served decreased. ...
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Skippers Sale
Fairchild Aircraft has sold a Metro 23 to Skippers Aviation, based in Perth, Western Australia, for delivery in July, with a second aircraft on option. The US manufacturer has delivered two Metro 23s to Hainan Airlines of China and one to Asia-Pacific Airlines of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sydney-based Australian Jet ...
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KC-135 Long Leads
Boeing has received a $10 million contract for long-lead materials needed to re-engine a dozen Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft - seven for Turkey and five for France. The US Air Force says, that work under the contract is expected to be completed in September. Source: Flight ...
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UK Starstreaks
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to purchase 1,000 Shorts Starstreak high-velocity missiles to provide the British Army with a short-range air-defence weapon. An initial production order for the weapon was placed in 1986, but technical problems have hampered the project. Source: Flight International