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IDB Mobile
Inmarsat telecommunications provider IDB Mobile Communications, of Culver City, California, has appointed Michael Jalbert president and chief executive. He was formerly president for Diversey's CSD division in Livonia, Michigan. Source: Flight International
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Universal
Aircraft-extrusions specialist Universal Alloy, of Anaheim, California, has promoted Robert Lobb to vice-president of sales in North America. He was formerly sales manager. Yukio (Young) Murakawa becomes vice-president of sales for Asia-Pacific. He was previously Asia sales manager. Nancy Newmyer is named sales manager for North America. ...
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America West
Frank Ryan has been elected to the board of America West Airlines of Phoenix, Arizona. He is a professor of mathematics at Rice University. Robert Nichols is named senior vice-president for customer service. He was formerly senior vice-president for total quality management with Marriott Hotels, Resorts and Suites. Douglas McKeen ...
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FlightSafety
Garylee Clark has been named assistant director of customer support for training company FlightSafety International (FSI), of Flushing, New York. She will be based at FSI's Houston, Texas, learning centre. Chris Lyons becomes assistant director of customer support, based at New York, where he has been accounts manager for customer ...
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Westinghouse
Dr Francis Harvey has been appointed of the Westinghouse Electronic Systems Group, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Harvey, who will replace Richard Linder on his retirement in 1996, will become chairman of Electronic Systems during the transition period. Source: Flight International
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Hunting
The Airline Interiors division of Hunting Aviation, of West Drayton, Middlesex, UK, has named Brian Larking vice-president of operations for North America. He was previously managing director of Rumbold, supplier of interior equipment to airlines and aircraft manufacturers. Source: Flight International
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Airfone count
More than 700 aircraft operated by seven airlines have been equipped with GTE's Advanced Digital Airfone (formerly GenStar) passenger-telephone system and more than 1,200 aircraft will be equipped by the end of 1995, says GTE Airfone. Source: Flight International
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Aviall success
Aviall Distribution Services has been made North American distributor for New York-based Dorne & Margolin's airliner-antenna product line, which includes VHF-navigation, landing-system and global-positioning-system antennae. Source: Flight International
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Aydin on target
Aydin International of Newtown, Pennsylvania, is to provide the UK Ministry of Defense with Service Practice Instrumentation (SPI) for use in the British Aerospace Skyflash air-to-air missile. The contract is worth up to $13.5 million. Source: Flight International
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CAE Electronics
CAE Electronics has sold Boeing 737-400 and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 full-flight simulators to Garuda Indonesia. The two simulators, equipped with CAE MaxVue visual systems, will be delivered to the airline's Dura Kosambi training centre in early 1996. Source: Flight International
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3-D radar for Greece
Marconi Radar and Control Systems is to supply a third Martello 3-D long-range air-defence surveillance radar to the Greek air force. Source: Flight International
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Russian assistance
Russia will provide China with "appropriate" technological assistance in its drive to launch a manned spacecraft in 2002. It is also to provide Japan with windtunnel testing for its Hope unmanned spaceplane and has begun negotiations with Brazil for joint programmes in Earth observation and telecommunications. ...
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New fuse
NASA will restructure the cost of its Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) mission from $254 million to $100 million, and will launch the craft two years earlier than planned, as the first mission in the Medium Explorer programme. The FUSE mission is being moved from a McDonnell Douglas Delta 2 ...
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Rokot link
Daimler-Benz Space and Russia's Khrunichev have formally established a joint venture to market the three-stage Rokot (the former SS-19 Stiletto missile) as a commercial launcher to be operated from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 1997. The Rokot can place 1,000kg into low-Earth orbit. It was used to place a small satellite ...
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SATCOM approved
Rockwell International Collins Air Transport division's SATCOM-906 six-channel satellite-communications system has been certificated on a Gulfstream IV business-jet owned by International Lease Finance. Source: Flight International
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Helicopters to Dubai
Agusta is to supply three A.109K2s and two licence-built AB412EPs to the Dubai Police Air Wing. Source: Flight International