JACK HESS was promoted to Southeast regional sales manager for BFGoodrich Aerospace Avionics Systems. Hess, who joined the company's sales department in 1988, most recently served as sales administrator.
HAMILTON STANDARD'S union work force overwhelmingly ratified a new three- year contract with the company, which is a division of United Technologies. Members of Local 743 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted 743-23 to accept the new agreement, which covers approximately 1,550 workers in Windsor Locks and East Windsor, Conn. The new contract provides for wage increases of 7.5 percent over the life of the contract, a $300 signing bonus and improvements in pension/savings plans and in life insurance and disability benefits.
The newly expanded National Aviation Association Coalition has come out in support of a restructuring of FAA that will provide greater autonomy for the agency and ensure that the Airport and Airway Trust Fund is taken "off- budget" and that taxes flowing into the trust fund are used only for aviation development.
ULI BAUR has joined SH&E as vice president. Formerly president of Proudfoot's Air&Transport Group, Baur will be involved in SH&E's merger and acquisition, privatization and start-up activities worldwide.
In an attempt to emulate the success enjoyed by Executive Jet Aviation's NetJets program, Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier and the AMR Combs division of AMR Corp. announced plans last week to begin selling fractional shares next month in aircraft built by Bombardier subsidiaries Learjet and Canadair (BA, April 24/171).
CASA Model C-212-CB, -CC, -CD, -CE, -CF, and -DF series airplanes (Docket No. 92-NM-75-AD) - proposes to require supplemental structural inspections and repair or replacement, as necessary, to ensure the continued airworthiness of the airplanes. This proposal is prompted by a structural re-evaluation, which identified certain significant structural components that may be prone to fatigue cracks as the airplanes approach or exceed the manufacturer's original fatigue design life goal.
Technical Products Group, Inc., (TPG), a newly formed company controlled by TPG Holdings, purchased April 29 a group of high-technology businesses from Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, Ill. The businesses, with annual sales in excess of $100 million, produce a wide range of advanced composite, aerospace and defense products. Included in the sale were Brunswick operations in Marion, Va., Lincoln, Neb., Camden, Ark. and DeLand, Fla.
CANADIAN REGIONAL AIRLINES will phase out eight of 15 ATR 42s in favor of eight used de Havilland Dash 8 Series 100s in its Ontario fleet by April 1996 in what the carrier describes as fleet standardization. Any speculation that the decision resulted from the flight restrictions imposed by FAA last winter is "not true," said Ted Sheldon, business planning manager for the airline. The carrier will continue to operate ATR 42s in Quebec.
GENERAL AVIATION MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION last week expressed concern to the Senate Budget Committee about proposals to privatize air traffic control services. The Budget Committee today is expected to consider transportation funding cuts this week and an early options paper suggested that privatizing ATC could save $14.7 billion through fiscal 2000 (BA, May 1/188).
BEECH Model 1900D airplanes (Docket No. 95-CE-15-AD; Amdt. 39-9184; AD 95- 02-17) - requires a one-time inspection of the elevator trim control cables at the top of the vertical stabilizer to ensure that cables are correctly routed around the pulleys, within the cable guide pins, and are not contacting any structure. The AD requires replacement of any cable that is incorrectly routed or chafed.
Howmet Corporation has expanded its gas turbine refurbishment activities with the acquisition of Turbine Components Corporation (TCC), the Branford, Conn., provider of specialized repair and coatings for gas turbine engines. Howmet officials, noting TCC's 1994 sales of $23 million and operations at four plants in Connecticut, said the acquisition "strengthens its position in the growing gas turbine market." Howmet will operate TCC as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Howmet Refurbishment unit. Larry McDougall, who has headed Howmet's Tulsa, Okla.
ANDY BAJC was named a technical representative for the Hawker line for Duncan Aviation. Bajc will provide technical information necessary for inspection, engineering and troubleshooting work on Hawker aircraft.
CARL W. HIRSCHMANN, 74, the Swiss entrepreneur and founder of Jet Aviation, died April 28 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., after a short illness. Hirschmann got his start in the machine tool business, but he learned to fly in 1940. In 1967 he founded Jet Aviation, which has grown in a network of aircraft maintenance, executive aircraft management and charter operations with facilities into Switzerland, Germany, the Middle East and Far East. The company has a fleet of more than 130 managed and owned aircraft and employs more than 1,700.
Officials at Boeing Commercial Airplane Group have developed a strategy that focuses on accident prevention rather than concentrating on determining the causes of accidents after they occur. The new approach was outlined at last month's Flight Safety Foundation Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar in Vancouver, British Columbia, in a paper by R. Curtis Graeber, chief of crew operations-Next Generation 737 Engineering, and Paul D. Russell, chief of airplane safety engineering, who presented the paper at the conference.
DR. WESLEY L. HARRIS is the new deputy chief engineer for aeronautics at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Harris, formerly associate administrator for the Office of Aeronautics, will provide an independent technical review of NASA aeronautics programs and projects "to ensure they are being planned and conducted on a sound engineering basis with proper controls and management of technical risk," according to the agency. Dr. Robert E. Whitehead was named acting associate administrator for aeronautics.
BRITISH AEROSPACE Model Viscount 744, 745D, and 810 airplanes (Docket No. 94-NM-110-AD) - proposes to require repetitive inspections for cracks of certain fittings and the actuator beam structure of the nose landing gear, and replacement, if necessary. This proposal is prompted by reports of fatigue cracking of the undercarriage bracing of the nose wheel. The actions specified by the proposed AD are intended to prevent such fatigue cracking, which could result in the failure of the structure and fittings and subsequent collapse of the nose landing gear.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has filed a Part 13 complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration to protest Los Angeles' "attempt to grab Los Angeles International Airport funds for the city budget," AOPA officials said last week. The association said the city claims that $54 million was credited to its airport revenue account by mistake and should be used for general purposes. The $54 million stems from a payment the state made to the city for using condemned airport land to build a freeway connector to LAX in the 1980s.
SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities.
EXTENSIVE REVIEW of the flight control system on the Boeing 737 failed to pinpoint a possible cause of 737 crashes in Colorado Springs and Pittsburgh, but the study did come up with 27 recommendations on design, maintenance, operations and crew training. The B737 Flight Control System Critical Design Review, issued last week by FAA, made 16 recommendations dealing specifically with the 737 and 11 addressing the FAA aircraft certification process. None of the recommendations was identified with a possible cause of the crashes, however.
The Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee this week is holding a public meeting to discuss possible changes to regulations governing general aviation maintenance. The meeting, which will be held during the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association's Annual Symposium and Trade Show May 11 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is intended to provide a forum to discuss maintenance, preventive maintenance, rebuilding and alteration and inspection of GA aircraft.
AOPA'S AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION said its 1995 series of flight instructor clinics, presented in a two-day format, is drawing record numbers of participants. "Course attendance was up 12 percent for the first quarter of 1995 compared to last year," said Don Koranda, vice president of training for the foundation. "More than 2,500 flight instructors have taken the course so far this year," he said. Attendance at an ASF clinic satisfies the FAA requirement that flight instructors be recertified every two years to continue teaching.
REGIONAL AIRLINE ASSOCIATION expects another record year in terms of exhibitors and attendance during its Spring Convention May 15-18 in San Antonio, Texas. The association sold 179 booths, up from last year's number of 138, and have rented space to 149 exhibitors, compared with the 121 exhibitors in Reno last year. The association expanded its booth space by 25 percent this year and sold out. In addition, pre-registration is up by about 30 percent from this time last year.
EXECUTIVE JET AVIATION this year will take delivery of "a minimum of four more" Hawker 1000s, which will be added to its fleet of 13 Hawkers, officials said last week. "Our next Hawker 1000 is fully committed to and will close within the next 30 days," said EJA owner Richard Santulli. EJA also operates a fleet of 25 Citation SIIs and expects to take delivery of 25 Citation V Ultra aircraft beginning in June.
Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation aviation subcommittee, introduced legislation (H.R.1545) this week to allow FAA to impose certification standards on airports serving only commuters. The bill, identical to one (S.682) sponsored by Sen. Wendell Ford (D-Ky.), was proposed by the Clinton administration as part of the initiative to improve commuter airline safety. FAA has statutory authority to issue operating certificates to airports served by air carriers using aircraft designed to carry 31 or more passengers.
