Bernard Guyot (see photo) has been appointed vice president-production of Messier-Dowty, Velizy, France. He succeeeds Jean-Marie Jacquet, who has left the parent Safran Group. Guyot was director of the company's Bidos facility.
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An increasingly liberalized economy with 9% annual growth and a middle class with a voracious consumer appetite are paving the way for airfreight to take off in India. And that is exactly what is happening. Airports Authority of India reports air cargo movements last year reached 1.4 million metric tons, two-thirds of which was international and the rest domestic. Annual growth rates exceeding 11% are forecast through 2011, with international shipments slightly leading domestic.
Problems with deliveries of the NH90 helicopter and Airbus A380 will hurt Stork's earnings this year, and it may take until 2009 to attain a full recovery, according to the company's first-quarter earnings report. Operating income for the first three months was €25 million ($34 million)--up slightly from the same period in 2006--but the aerospace sector will have a negative contribution for the year.
William L. Ballhaus (see photo) has been appointed president of BAE Systems' Network Systems, Reston, Va. He was president of BAE's National Security Solutions and Mission Solutions.
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Emirates SkyCargo is continuing its aggressive growth plans and could become the world's largest cargo airline in the next few years. The Emirates group's logistics subsidiary is about to put together the necessary ingredients to an almost unheard of growth story: It has a host of new aircraft on firm order, it is expanding its network to take advantage of its ideal geographic location and, finally, much-needed additional capacity is in the process of coming online.
Catherine Kuenzel (see photos) has become vice president-Enterprise Infrastructure Services and Solutions and Jill Kale vice president-Enterprise Applications and Systems Integration for the Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Information Technology Sector, McLean, Va. Kuenzel was acting president of the sector's former computing systems unit. Kale was vice president-strategic programs, transitions and processes for the sector's Commercial, State and Local Group.
EXECUTIVE JET MANAGEMENT HAS ADDED a twin-engine Cessna Citation Excel to its charter fleet based at John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, Calif. The jet seats eight passengers. EJM's Ronald Silverman says there is a steady increase in demand for chartered air transportation services, especially in Santa Ana.
Research test pilots USAF Lt. Cols. (ret.) Kelly Latimer and Nils Larson have joined the Flight Crew Branch at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB, Calif.
Northrop Grumman has delivered the 100th active electronically scanned array production radar (the APG-77(v)1) for the U.S. Air Force's F-22s. The radar gives the Raptor the ability to locate and positively identify small, even stealthy objects--such as next-generation cruise missiles in a nose-on aspect--at ranges great enough that successive waves can be attacked.
Fiddle players, guitarists and others have won a pass from Delta Air Lines to bring instruments on board, winning applause from the American Federation of Musicians. After the Sept. 11 attacks, musicians couldn't get hand instruments through security, but the AFM was able to get Congress to intervene with the TSA on this issue. That was enough for most carriers not to impose further restrictions at the gate.
Eclipse Aviation has selected its team to train pilots flying the company's new Eclipse 500 very light jet. Eclipse has entered into a partnership with Flight Simulation Co. of the Netherlands and Higher Power Aviation Inc., based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. A third partner, Opinicus Corp. of Lutz, Fla., had already been selected to build the simulators. Flight Simulation Co. will be responsible for the FAA-approved course content and will have overall responsibility for the Eclipse 500 training program, according to Vern Raburn, Eclipse president and CEO.
USAF Maj. Gen. Chris T. Anzalone has been named deputy for test, integration, logistics and fielding for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Huntsville, Ala. He was deputy for test and assessment. Brig. Gen. Blair E. Hansen has become director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities/deputy chief of staff for intelligence at USAF Headquarters at the Pentagon. He was vice commander of the Ninth Air Force within Air Combat Command (ACC)/deputy commander of U.S. Central Command Air Forces, Shaw AFB, S.C. Hansen will be succeeded by Maj. Gen. William L.
Airbus is in the process of altering its supplier relationships and will start preparing its Hamburg site later this year for A320 production. These are some of the first concrete measures the aircraft maker is taking under its Power8 restructuring scheme. Labor issues may take longer to resolve, but the internal steps can proceed, Airbus says.
THE NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSN. (NBAA) has launched its NBAA Online Advocacy Center to provide information and resources aimed at opposing the FAA's proposed user fees. The site offers links for sending e-mails to Congressional representatives, suggestions for letters to newspaper editors, talking points for explaining why Congress should retain the tax on jet fuel to fund the FAA and sample articles to help raise awareness. For more information, go to: www.nbaa.org/advocacycenter.
Glenn Ritchey and Jeffrey Feasel have been appointed to the board of trustees of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla. Ritchey is mayor of Daytona Beach and president of the Jon Hall Automotive Group. Feasel is president/CEO of the Halifax Community Health System, also in Daytona Beach.
A revolution in international freight will begin this year as five airlines and their business and government partners attack the piles of paperwork that have long frustrated the speed potential of air transportation of goods.
Engineers at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) are dissecting their data after running a specially equipped RL-10 rocket engine at 10% of its full 13,000-lb. thrust in a series of tests aimed at using the venerable cryogenic engine for the descent stage of NASA's planned lunar lander. PWR uses a bypass valve to route hydrogen around the turbopump that feeds propellant into the combustion chamber, slowing the turbomachinery to throttle the engine back, says Chris Moore, who runs the exploration advanced technology program at NASA headquarters.
HAWKER BEECHCRAFT CORP.--formerly Raytheon Aircraft Co.--is marking the 75th anniversary of Beechcraft this month. The original company was founded by Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech, with business associate and engineer Ted Wells, in April 1932 in Wichita, Kan. Its first product was the Model 17R cabin biplane--the "Staggerwing"--followed in 1937 by the Model 18 "Twin Beech." The Hawker 4000 mid-size cabin biz jet is the latest product. The company has built about 45,000 airplanes since its beginning, with at least 36,000 still flying worldwide.
Spacecraft and launch vehicle processing at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral are building to a peak for two planned planetary launches this summer.
India's Jet Airways is introducing a new livery with the first of 10 Boeing 777-300ERs that were scheduled to enter service May 5, its 14th anniversary. Those aircraft were ordered in September 2005. Last December, the Indian carrier added 10 787s. It also flies 49 737s. Also, Boeing has acknowledged that 10 737-800s carried on its web site as ordered by an "unidentified" customer belong to Russia's S7 Group. Additionally, Panama's Copa Airlines is another unidentified customer that has been revealed. It placed an order for four 737-800s.
Skybus Airlines plans to launch Airbus A319 service on May 22 from Columbus, Ohio, connecting with major and secondary airports in seven large and medium markets. Ten seats in the 156-seat A319s are available at $10, an offer that CEO Bill Diffenderffer says will apply to every flight. Other seats are available at prices that will rise gradually as the date of a given flight approaches. In the single-class service, Skybus strives to offer "50% below what is the prevailing fare."
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