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Hughes
Three senior management appointments have been made at Hughes Europe, of Brussels, Belgium. Louis Kurkjian, recently retired as a vice-president of Hughes Aircraft, becomes chairman, supporting Allan Cook, who has been named managing director. Kurkjian was formerly an assistant sector-executive and served as assistant manager of Florida programmes for Switzerland, ...
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Thai Airways
Former Thai minister of commerce Amaret Sila-on has been elected chairman of national airline Thai Airways International. He replaces Kasem Suwanagul. Source: Flight International
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Rolls-Royce
John Rose has been appointed managing director of the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group, based in Derby, UK. He succeeds John Sandford, who will return to R-R Inc, of Reston, Virginia, as president and chief executive. Sandford will continue as a director of R-R in the UK. Rose, now deputy managing director ...
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Bedek's Spanish Tie-Up
Iberia and the Bedek aviation group of Israel Aircraft Industries are to co-operate on aircraft and engine maintenance work following the signing of a memorandum of understanding in late December. Initially, the two companies are to market their services in Boeing 747 pylon modifications. ...
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Section 41 Success
Singapore Aviation Services (SASCO) has signed two contracts, worth S$8 million ($5.5 million), for section 41 modification to two South African Airways Boeing 747s and a Middle East Airlines 747. SASCO will also perform engine-pylon modifications to the aircraft. It has signed a letter of intent to carry out similar ...
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A question of scale
Will big also be beautiful, as consolidation creates American aerospace giants? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Revolutions, it seems, can often start from surprisingly low-key beginnings. In the case of the Lockheed Martin merger, it began with a telephone call. In March 1994, Lockheed chairman Dan Tellep rang ...
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Smoother operations
NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle landing runway has been modified to reduce launch delays Tim Furniss/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Space Shuttle launch delays may be reduced by more than 50% because of extensive modifications to the 4,570m (15,000ft)-long grooved-concrete runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ...
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Horizons ventures into Malaysia
HORIZONS Technology (HTI) of San Diego, California, has formed a joint venture with Kuala Lumpur-based Zetro to provide aircraft-engineering, avionics-integration and software-development services in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific region. The agreement to form Zetro Technologies follows the selection of HTI to supply mission-planning equipment for the Royal Malaysian ...
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S Africa offers to extend Singapore link
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SOUTH AFRICA has offered Singapore the use of its training and test sites, as part of a move to strengthen defence ties and industrial co-operation, between the two countries. The offer was made during a five-day visit to South Africa in 1994, by Singapore ...
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Japan considers Israeli tie-up
JAPAN IS considering a co-operative deal with Israel on anti-ballistic-missiles technology after a visit to Tokyo by Israel’s Prime Mminister Yizhak Rabin on 12 December. Rabin, was accompanied on the excursion, by several defence industry leaders. His visit was the first by an Israeli Prime Minister to Japan. Senior Japanese ...
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Canadian safety chiefs query airline checks
Jim Bagnall/OTTAWA CANADA'S Transportation Safety Board has criticised Transport Canada for failing to ensure that safety deficiencies it had uncovered during routine airline audits were actually fixed. In a report to transport minister, Doug Young, the Board notes that it has investigated 19 aircraft accidents since 1984, ...
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Carib Express nears launch
CARIBBEAN START-UP carrier Carib Express has received a ECU4 million ($4.8 million) loan from the European Development Bank and plans to begin operations in February. It is negotiating with British Aerospace Asset Management Organisation for three BAe 146s. Meanwhile, the Governments of St Kitts Nevis and Monserrat, have ...
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VLCT study identifies 1,000-strong market
Guy Norris/SEATTLE EARLY RESULTS of the study into the very-large commercial transport (VLCT) being run by Boeing and the Airbus partners, indicate a possible market for up to 500 aircraft of more than 500 seats by the year 2010. As many as 1,000 could be needed by ...
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Bell with bite
The AH-1W SuperCobra is the basis of the Bell/ GEC-Marconi Venom Cobra, a candidate for the British Army attack helicopter Peter Gray/DALLAS My first pull-up in to the hover in the Bell AH-1W SuperCobra combat helicopter was adequate, but not completely satisfactory, so I landed ...
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Venom's vital parts
GEC and Bell have upgraded the AH-1W SuperCobra and renamed it the Venom for the British Army's attack-helicopter competition. Peter Gray/ROCHESTER I "flew" the GEC-Marconi Avionics Venom simulator at the company's plant at Rochester, in the UK. This fixed-base device has two cockpits set up ...
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FAA will clarify kitplane rules
The US Federal Aviation Administration is drawing up guidelines, which will clarify the rules governing the assembly and approval of kit-built aircraft. The move follows concern that amateur-built rules were being circumvented by some "builder-assist" shops set up to help kit buyers complete their aircraft. The FAA emphasises ...
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Bede hands over BD-10 manufacture to Peregrine
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BEDE JET has licensed the rights to certificate, manufacture and market its BD-10 single-turbojet general-aviation aircraft to Peregrine Flight International, the Nevada-based company formed to help buyers of the BD-10 kitplane build their aircraft. Kit shipments have been halted while Peregrine studies the ...
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Mielec chooses power plants for Vector UAV
Andrzej Jeziorski/WARSAW WSK PZL-MIELEC has selected, German piston-engine manufacturer Gebler-Hirthmotoren and French gas turbine Company Microturbo, to supply the power plants for its Vector unmanned air vehicle (UAV). According to the Polish manufacturer's UAV department manager Andrzej Podsadowski, the company proposes to power the piston-prop variant ...