John Wade has been named executive vice president and general manager and Dave Salvador corporate sales manager of business aviation services of Aircell , Broomfield, Colo.
Sherry Ortiz has been appointed claims attorney in the airlines/central claims office and David A. Seiler vice president/claims attorney in the Atlanta branch of New York-based USAIG . Ortiz was a law clerk at Trope & DeCarolis and worked in the FAA Office of the Regional Counsel. Seiler was in-house counsel for Delta Air Lines.
Maria Della Posta has been appointed senior vice president-sales and marketing of Pratt and Whitney Canada , Longueuil, Quebec. She succeeds Keyvan Fard, who will focus on developing growth opportunities. Della Posta was vice president-customer service.
For me, this year’s Farnborough International Airshow has a special resonance. As always, it takes place in my constituency, but this year I shall be attending for the first time in my new capacity as minister for international security strategy at the Ministry of Defense. As we prepare to meet for this year’s show, we do so at a pivotal time for defense.
Long-awaited agreements with U.S. companies that are rich in development and integration skills add to the foreign support that Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (Comac) is counting on in its development of the 156-seat C919 regional jet. As with a string of announcements throughout the past year, the signings last week with GE Aviation Systems, Eaton, Honeywell and Rockwell Collins are in the preliminary stage. But the intent of the U.S. entities to use joint ventures to broaden their reach within China’s huge aviation market is clear.
Known for pursuing hard goals, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has raised some eyebrows with its Transformer (TX) program to develop a tactical vehicle that can both drive and fly.
James McConville has been named president/CEO of AeroMech Engineering Inc. , San Luis Obispo, Calif. He was vice president-strategy and business development at parent company Chandler/May.
The Thommen HSL 1600 IR provides high-performance, multifunction capabilities in a solid-state design that increases reliability, performance and ease of installation, according to the company. It will be certified under the auspices of EASA and the FAA. The assemblies, mechanisms and connecting wires are within the streamlined casing of the searchlight. Integration of these components into the unit itself eliminates aerodynamic issues and the need for additional remote junction boxes and intermediate cabling, the company says.
Krishna Mikkilineni has become senior vice president-engineering and operations for Honeywell , based in Bangalore, India. He succeeds Larry Kittelberger, senior vice president-technology and operations, who will retire. Bask Iyer has been appointed chief information officer and will remain head of global security and functional transformation.
Moscow is restructuring key elements of the defense ministry as it tries to improve procurement performance, particularly on strategic programs. Vladimir Popovkin, recently appointed first deputy defense minister for arms procurement, says the ministry is splitting administrative and operational functions.
U.S. airports are empowered to levy higher landing fees on airlines as a means to control congestion and reduce flight delays under a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Douglas Barrie (London), Robert Wall (London), Michael A Taverna (Paris)
The U.K.’s Taranis UCAV—London’s entree into any European or U.S. joint unmanned combat air vehicle development—is making its debut just as debate about the country’s near-term combat aircraft mix is heating up. The Taranis demonstrator is a key element of a British research program examining the technology required for a low-observable (LO) deep-strike platform that could be employed as part of the Defense Ministry’s Future Combat Air Capability. The vehicle will undertake both ground and airborne signature-characterization trials.
As the jewel in the crown of Boeing’s international presence, Australia strategically represents more than the sum of its parts. Described by Boeing Australia and South Pacific President Ian Thomas as a “microcosm of Boeing,” the country is home to the company’s largest footprint outside of the U.S.
July 26-29—Practical Aeronautics Short Course. “Introduction to Aeronautics: A Practical Perspective.” Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. See www.practicalaero.com July 26-Aug. 1—2010 Experimental Aircraft Association Airventure. EAA Aviation Center, Oshkosh, Wis. Call +1 (920) 426-4800 or see www.airventure.org July 27-30—American Astronautical Society’s International Space Conference of Pacific Basin Societies. Delta Montreal Hotel. Call +1 (703) 866-0020 or see www.astronautical.org
USMC Col. Gary L. Thomas has been nominated for promotion to brigadier general. He has been commanding officer of Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Sqdn. 1, Yuma, Ariz.
William Maglio has been appointed CEO of Arkwin Industries Inc. , Westbury, N.Y. He was president/chief operating officer. He has been succeeded by Frank Robilotto, who was executive vice president/general manager.
Nina Laserson Dunn has been named Washington-based senior adviser to the chairman/CEO of Finmeccanica and vice chairman of Meccanica Holdings Inc. She was executive vice president/general counsel/secretary of Finmeccanica subsidiary DRS Technologies Inc., Parsippany, N.J.
Capt. Tom Hendricks has become vice president-operations and safety, Lori J. Tully managing director of revenue accounting and Susan K. Tonner assistant vice president-acquisition policy of the Arlington, Va.-based Air Transport Association of America . Hendricks was director of line operations for Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, while Tully was director of interline and revenue recognition with US Airways. Tonner was senior director for federal public policy at TechAmerica.
Having generated loud, widespread objections to its initial proposal for a Large Aircraft Security Plan (LASP), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is taking its time to work up a revision. It has been so quiet for so long, some business aviation people are getting a bit edgy.
Astrium Services and Cisco will jointly study space Internet protocol router applications. Space routers permit large blocks of data to be merged in orbit and transferred to multiple terrestrial receivers, obviating the need to rely on ground-based teleports and considerably augmenting download rates. Initially, the two companies will study the Internet Routing in Space hosted payload supplied by Cisco for Intelsat 14 under a U.S. Defense Department joint-capability demonstration project, and how Astrium’s satcom expertise could improve this capability.
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Walter Visser has become vice president of the CAE Global Academy in Montreal. He succeeds Kris Van Den Bergh , who has been named chief learning officer for civil aviation. Visser was vice president for the Middle East and India/managing director of Emirates-CAE Flight Training in Dubai.
Sheila C. Cheston (see photo) has been named corporate vice president/general counsel effective Aug. 30 for the Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. She will succeed Stephen D. Yslas, who is retiring Dec. 31. Cheston has been executive vice president for strategy and planning, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and all legal matters for BAE Systems Inc.
Pedro Morenes Eulate has been appointed executive chairman and Daniel Garcia-Guelbenzu general manager in Spain for France-based MBDA , and Fred Harrison vice president-technology for U.S.-based MBDA Inc. Morenes was chairman of Construcciones Navales del Norte, while Garcia was a senior manager at GE Aviation. Harrison was an executive at Alliant Techsystems, Plymouth, Minn.
