Raytheon Aircraft Co. plans to lay off another 600 workers by year-end because of weak demand for its business aircraft. The Wichita, Kan.-based company is adjusting production to match the downturn in deliveries.
Europeans are increasingly worried by the Transportation Security Administration's restrictive policy applied to foreign pilots seeking to undergo training in the U.S. According to the TSA's new rules, aliens have to submit a request for authorization prior to attending classes and following flight training courses in the U.S. The TSA has up to 45 days to ratify or reject demands.
Marian Schaffer has been named vice president-corporate development for the Ghetzler Aero-Power Corp., Buffalo Grove, Ill. She was vice president-investments at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.
If the airline business were a spectator sport, the contest about to get underway between JetBlue and Song, Delta Air Lines' own low-cost carrier, would be a bookmaker's dream.
The NASA/Orbital Sciences Corp. Solar Radiation Climate Experiment (Sorce) satellite designed to tie climate changes on Earth with the Sun is undergoing checkout in a 400-mi. orbit following launch Jan. 25 on a Pegasus booster. The OSC Pegasus XL was air-launched about 120 mi. off Cape Canaveral from the company's Lockheed L-1011 aircraft.
A graduate student at Stanford University has found what promises to be a better hybrid rocket fuel than the usual rubberized polymers like hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB). The new fuel is a broad class of paraffins, imprecisely known as wax, and may make the hybrid rocket a more viable contender.
Werner Lowe's urgent plea to fix defense acquisition couldn't be more correct, particularly in relation to your article in the same issue on current reform proposals (AW&ST Jan. 6, pp. 6 and 23). Our long-standing dithering with hair-measure corrections is unacceptable, given the brilliant example of the Manhattan Project that we have had for six decades. The great difficulty is that the startling, time-saving Manhattan methods are unknown to our current federal and industry defense managers. Here are just a few of Manhattan's many astounding methods:
As it prepares for a critical milestone on its Trent 900 development program--the first engine run in mid-March--British-based propulsion manufacturer Rolls-Royce has finished a series of rig tests clearing the way for the trial. These included ensuring the robustness of a new fan-blade design and the fan containment system, along with validating the emission forecasts for the powerplant. The first of the Hamilton Sundstrand engine control units has also been delivered and is now under test, according to company officials.
The British government faces an intense period of industrial negotiation following a last-minute attempt to cobble together an alliance between two competitors for its 2.8-billion-pound ($4.6-billion) aircraft carrier build program.
Aviation Week & Space Technology has selected the following Laurel Legends for 2002. The Legends are often previous Laurels winners or are individuals picked for contributions to global aerospace over a period of years. Descriptions for Laurels recipients are excerpted from their citations in the magazine. The Legends also will be recognized at the Apr. 8 dinner. Orville and Wilbur Wright
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Christian Leonard has become chief operating officer for Europe for the Denver-based Titanium Metals Corp. He was executive vice president-manufacturing. Robert E. Musgraves, who was executive vice president/general counsel, has become COO for North America. He has been succeeded as general counsel by Joan H. Prusse, who was vice president/deputy general counsel. JoAnne A. Nadalin, who was vice president/corporate controller, has succeeded Mark A. Wallace, who was executive vice president/chief financial officer and has resigned.
Mike Mott, USN Vice Adm. (ret.) Richard H. Truly and Neil de Grasse Tyson have been elected to three-year terms on the board of directors of the Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation. Mott is vice president/general manager of Boeing -NASA Systems in Houston. Truly, a former astronaut, is director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder, Colo., while Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and a visiting research scientist at Princeton University. Former board Chairman Jaime Oaxaca has been elected director emeritus.
Alain Bensoussan has resigned as president of French space agency CNES. He had come under intense fire during an internal crisis that culminated in late January with a damning report calling for a thorough overhaul of the agency (AW&ST Jan. 27, p. 27). The job of finding a replacement, who will combine the functions of president and director general, is expected to take no more than a few weeks. Among the names said to be under consideration is EADS Launch Vehicle head Philippe Couillard.
A USAF/Lockheed U-2S reconnaissance aircraft crashed in South Korea near Osan AB, where it was based, injuring four people on the ground and the pilot. The pilot radioed that he had an emergency and ejected at about 7,000 ft., an Air Force official said. According to one report, the aircraft was returning to Osan and had engine problems. The U-2 is a good glider, but the primary and backup flight instruments failed in instrument weather conditions, forcing the pilot to eject. The Air Force would not confirm this report.
Rolls-Royce Engine Services Oakland is completing a move into a new $4.1-million overhaul facility for the 501/T56-series engines it manufactures in Indianapolis. The shop has a 54,000-sq.-ft. main floor for repair work and an 18,000-sq.-ft. mezzanine for parts/component storage, plus an ancillary engine test cell. It features a closed-loop fluid waste control system to ensure that no fluids pollute San Francisco Bay. California's hazardous waste disposal rules are so stringent that a piece of oil-stained paper must be treated as hazardous waste.
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Facing the prospect of an inventory shortage of operationally available P-3s as the aging maritime surveillance aircraft begin to run out of life, Navy officials are trying to determine if it is feasible to field the follow-on Multimission Maritime Aircraft faster than planned.
Runway capacity at Charles de Gaulle and Orly is far from being fully utilized, suggesting that the prevailing airport policy should be revamped, according to a French oversight agency. The Cour des Comptes, a government watchdog similar to the U.S. General Accounting Office, last week criticized the political decisions made during the last several years to curtail airport traffic and respond to environmentalists' concerns. Such initiatives helped to create the alleged need for a third airport while ample runway capacity remains available at existing hubs.
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Venkat Shastri (see photo) has been appointed vice president-engineering of Palomar Technologies, Vista, Calif. He was senior director of engineering and product development for KLA-Tencor.
