Air Force Gulfstream G-IV (4) Lockheed C-130H (8) Saab JAS 39A (92) Saab JAS 39B (15) Saab JAS 39C (50) Saab JAS 39D (3) Saab SF 340B (9) Saab SH 37 (2) Saab Sk 37 (2) Saab SK 60A (45) Saab SK 60B (17) Saab SK 60C (19) Coast Guard CASA C-212-200 (3) Military Helicopter Wing Agusta A109LUH (2) CASA C-212 (1) Eurocopter AS332M (10) Eurocopter BO 105CBS (20)
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DigitalGlobe 1601 Dry Creek Drive, Suite 260 Longmont, CO 80503, USA Tel. (303) 684-4000; Fax (303) 684-4048 www.digitalglobe.com QuickBird Commercial remote sensing, environmental and Earth resources monitoring. Orbit is near-polar LEO. Carries one 61-cm.-resolution panchromatic and one 2.4-meter-resolution multispectral sensor. 2009 EOL. Worldview I, II Scheduled for launch in mid-2006, respectively.
Indian controllers are activating four satellites, including a new Earth-mapping platform and a recoverable microgravity-science capsule that will provide data for future reusable launch vehicles, following their launch Dec. 10 on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). All four spacecraft reached their desired 97.9-deg. polar orbits, with an altitude of 637 km., and all were reported deploying normally and in good health. It was the 10th PSLV the Indian Space Research Organization has launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center.
Two Mesaba investors are leveling harsh allegations against Northwest Airlines and seeking legal action to halt Northwest's current plan to acquire the regional carrier.
Talk about a nice return on investment. Five months after paying $630 million for Textron's Fastening Systems unit, private equity firm Platinum Equity is selling off the business's aerospace operations--which account for just 1/18 of total revenues--for $300 million. The buyer is aerospace metals supplier Precision Castparts Corp. (PCP). Mark Donegan, PCP's CEO, says the old Textron operation, which manufactures aerospace rivets and blind bolts, will fill a gap in the PCP's product line.
Threats from Northrop Grumman, the Pentagon's No. 3 revenue-generating defense contractor, to back out of a $200-billion competition with Boeing to build new aerial refuelers indicate that the company may be changing its approach to high-stakes competitions, according to industry officials.
The new House Armed Services Committee chairman, Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), is shying away from talk of "savings" or tradeoffs among military spending priorities--in fact, he's not highlighting any cuts, all while calling for more counterinsurgency and extra-conventional capabilities. Skelton repeatedly has said he will leave details of program oversight to his subcommittee chairmen, and his comments so far don't portend dramatic fiscal realignment. "I don't think it's a choice between boots on the ground and high technology," Skelton says (AW&ST Jan. 1, p. 30).
TNT Airways is expanding the work KLM Engineering and Maintenance will perform, adding overhaul of two Boeing 747-400 Extended Range Freighters. TNT already has contracted with KLM to perform Boeing 737/QC fleet support, as well as work on BAE146 regional jets. The 747 arrangement covers engineering services, maintenance control and component services, line maintenance and A- and C-checks.
Oasis Hong Kong Airlines is negotiating to feed traffic to and from EasyJet and Ryanair, Chief Executive Stephen Miller tells Reuters. It also is talking to the British and Irish budget carriers about joint marketing, he says, adding that Oasis may make an initial public offering of its shares in 2009 or 2010. The company, a no-frills operator using former Singapore Airlines 747-400s, began operations only two months ago.
Air Force Aermacchi MB.339 (12) Aero Vodochody L-39 (21) Aerospatiale SA330 (2) Agusta A109 (2) Boeing 727-200 Adv (1) Cessna Citation II (1) Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alphajet E (17) Dornier Do 128-6 (16) Dornier Do 228-201 (1) Dornier Do 228-212 (5) Dornier Do 28D (14) Eurocopter AS332 (4) Lockheed C-130H (5) Lockheed C-130H-30 (2) Mil Mi-34 (3) Mil Mi-35 (5) Navy
Gerald Tsai, Jr., has been named non-executive chairman of the New York-based Sequa Corp. He succeeds the late Norman E. Alexander, who was executive chairman. Tsai, a private investor, has been a director of Sequa and was chairman of the Delta Life Corp. and Primerica Corp.
Mark H. Ronald, the recently retired president/CEO of BAE Systems Inc., has been named to the board of directors of Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems.
Expendable launch vehicles, despite their lower up-front development costs and unchallenged dominance in the global launch market, have not squelched the dreams of reusable launch vehicle (RLV) designers.
The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III program appears to have won a new customer with the recent decision by 13 NATO nations to acquire at least four of the big airlifters to operate in a pool to be based at Ramstein AB, Germany. These aircraft, however, will be delivered from the fleet of white tails that Boeing is manufacturing "on spec." The first is set to be delivered in late 2007, and all would be operational by the end of 2009.
