UNC AIRWORK established a new auxiliary power unit servicing plan, the Crown Jewels Program, that officials say will reduce downtime and maintenance costs. UNC Airwork will inspect, analyze, rework and repair equipment under a customer-specific standard. At 750- or 1,500-hour intervals, UNC also will provide operators with exchange combustor unit assemblies with instructions on removal and replacement. Technical support is available at no charge. Repairs will cover hot section, engine and gearbox.
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY will host a Women in Aviation Day March 13. The event will include an address by U.S. national aerobatics champ Patty Wagstaff and concurrent sessions on aerospace engineering, aviation maintenance technology, aeronautical-science flight support, aviation business administration and aviation computer science. For more information, contact Teresa Thamer at (904) 226-6732.
NATIONAL BUSINESS AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION published its NBAA Airport Noise Summary 1996-1997, which lists 622 U.S. airports alphabetically. Each airport listing contains airport advisories, rules in effect, a contact phone number, recommendations for runway uses and other airport uses. The summary also includes sections on international noise rules, a history of the development of aircraft noise rules and guidelines for considering noise as a factor in selecting an aircraft. For more information, contact NBAA at (202) 783-9000.
Parker Hannifin last week agreed to buy the aerospace assets of Pnuemo Abex Corporation's Abex/NWL Division for $193 million, and will combine the unit with its Parker Bertea Aerospace operation to create a broad-based subcomponent supply house once the deal closes in March or April. Abex/NWL, which turned in $200 million in sales last year, specializes in actuators, valves and pumps used in aircraft controls and jet engine thrust reversers.
GENERAL AVIATION MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION released the second edition of ARINC 429, General Aviation Subset. The new edition contains several updates and new standard label codes. In addition, GAMA's data bus specifications include a concentrated EFIS to FMS databus protocol, a protocol from the FMS to the EFIS to control a variety of airspeed reference parameters, non-standard labels representing present usage within the general aviation industry, and two graphic protocols that define various navigation patterns. The new edition costs $30.
NICHOLAS NYLEC has joined Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems Military Systems unit as vice president, Navy systems. Nylec has 27 years technical marketing experience, holding positions with NTN Services, Martin Marietta, Unisys Corp. and IBM Federal Systems Company.
UNC, INC. officials say the company will have revenues of nearly $1 billion this year as a result of the planned acquisition of Garrett Aviation Services. See article below.
JAPAN'S newly elected transport minister, Kamei Yoshiyuki, said he plans to establish a study group to accelerate a program to build a third major airport to serve Tokyo, but it may be decades before that project is completed. The study group will include representatives of the government and local communities. Construction of the third airport was proposed by the Aviation Council, an advisory group to the transport minister, in a report submitted last fall.
UNIVERSAL AVIONICS was selected to provide its UNS-1M navigation management system with internal GPS for Executive Airlines' fleet of ATR-42 and ATR-72 aircraft. The system, which is interfaced with Honeywell electronic flight instrument and flight guidance systems, enables lateral- and vertical- coupled non-precision GPS approaches. The system uses an LCD flat panel display and incorporates a navigation computer, a 12-channel RAIM GPS receiver and control/display functions in a 6.25-pound Dzus-mounted unit.
THOMAS STELTER was promoted to senior manager of engineering and technical operations for SimuFlite Training International. Stelter, who will oversee simulator support engineering and inventory control, previously was manager of engineering.
Alyn Corporation received a U.S. patent for Boralyn, a boron carbide metal matrix composite that the company said has numerous applications ranging from bicycles to aircraft.
Germany's struggling Daimler-Benz hopes to return to profitability this year, after two years of hemorrhaging at the hands of a weak dollar and bloated corporate structure. Company executives quoted in Bonn press reports repeated forecasts of large 1995 losses, but contended that restructuring plans already under way, coupled with the beginnings of recovery in the aerospace market, should improve 1996 results.
JOHN COPPLE, former vice president for Raytheon Company unit E-Systems, has joined Space Imaging as chief executive officer. John Neer, who served as president and CEO since the company was formed in 1994, will continue as president. Space Imaging, Thornton, Colo., provides commercial, one-meter resolution satellite imagery.
Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.), ranking Republican on the House aviation subcommittee from 1989 through 1994, will retire from Congress at the end of the current session. Clinger was slated to become chairman of the House aviation subcommittee after the Republicans gained control of the House in 1995, but instead opted to become chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee. He remained a member of the aviation subcommittee and is vice chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He has served in Congress since 1979.
BFGOODRICH AEROSPACE'S maintenance, repair and overhaul business had a record 1995, the company said. The Transport Repair&Maintenance Division delivered 374 aircraft to 29 maintenance, modification and paint customers - a 35 percent increase over the 1994 total. The Component Repair&Overhaul Division repaired or overhauled more than 13,200 components, up 15 percent over 1994.
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT delivered a Hawker 800XP to Israeli development company Control Centers, Ltd. and a Beech King Air 350 to PanCanadian Petroleum Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta. The Hawker 800XP is the first delivered into the international market and the first Hawker to have been sold in Israel. Control Centers previously operated a Westwind. PanCanadian bought its first Beech aircraft - a King Air 200 - in 1975. The company later traded up to a Beech King Air 300. The company also owns a Hawker 800.
AVIATION CONSULTING INC., Greenwich, Conn., recently completed a technical audit of the helicopter flight operations of a public utility company, the 150th such audit by ACI, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
REFLECTONE received a contract valued at $6 million to build an Avro RJ100 regional aircraft full flight simulator for Belgian national airline Sabena. The simulator, which will be installed in Sabena's training center in Brussels in early 1997, will be used to train flight crews for both Sabena and Crossair.
BOMBARDIER REGIONAL AIRCRAFT DIVISION said Tyrolean Airways increased its order for the new Series 200 model of the Canadair Regional Jet to five from four. The launch customer for the 200 model, Tyrolean took delivery of the first aircraft last week in Graz, Austria. Tyrolean is the fifth European airline to operate the Canadair Regional Jet.
Teterboro, N.J. airport was dubbed by a local newspaper as the "little airport that could" after remaining open during the Blizzard of '96 even though most airports in the northeast corridor from Boston to Washington, D.C. were forced to close for one or more days (BA, Jan. 15/22). Teterboro Tower reported that 104 flights landed and departed during the blizzard - 71 arrivals and eight departures on Sunday, Jan. 7, and 12 arrivals and 13 departures on Jan. 8.
THE SUPREME COURT last week ruled that relatives of airline crash victims cannot recover "loss-of-society" damages when such accidents occur over international waters. In Zicherman vs. Korean Air Lines, a unanimous court said that damages in airplane crashes on the high seas are covered by the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA). Since recovery in such lawsuits is limited to pecuniary damages, there can be no recovery for loss of society, the court said. The case involves the Sept. 1, 1983, shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan.
WESTERN PACIFIC is considering a commuter operation at the airline's Colorado Springs, Colo. hub to serve nearby ski resorts and other feeder markets. The new operation could begin by mid-year.
GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE INC. named David E. Henderson director of communications. Before joining the Savannah, Ga.-based manufacturer, Henderson was president of his own public relations firm, Henderson/HP Public Relations in Kansas City, Mo. Before his involvement in marketing public relations, Henderson was a network correspondent for CBS News and a television news executive in Denver, Colo.
Citing a report of complete power loss of the left engine and power fluctuations of the right engine on a Saab 340, the Federal Aviation Administration this month issued an emergency directive outlining certain steps for operators to avoid power loss in icing conditions. The airworthiness directive, effective Jan.
