Elizabeth T. Solberg has been appointed to the board of directors of Midwest Express Holdings Inc. She is regional president/senior partner in Fleishman-Hillard Inc., Kansas City, Mo.
General Electric Co. may yet salvage its proposed acquisition of Honeywell Inc. in the face of European Commission (EC) demands for increasingly stiff concessions (see p. 89). On the other hand, it is not inconceivable the deal could go down in flames. For different reasons, General Dynamics Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Newport News Shipbuilding also has encountered serious problems. As of last Thursday, the deal appeared dead in the water, according to people close to the transaction. Northrop Grumman Corp. is acting as spoiler.
Mark Ogren has been appointed senior vice president and Bruno Pouilleau vice president, based in Paris, for Jouve Data Management, Irvine, Calif. Ogren was vice president-sales and marketing, while Pouilleau was manager of aerospace marketing and business development.
Kevin Mulloy has become vice president-strategy and business development of Washington-based Intelsat. He was a partner in the consulting firm of McKinsey&Co.
R.G. Smith, a design engineer for Douglas Aircraft and noted aviation artist, died at home in California on May 29. He was 87 and had a rare form of Parkinson's disease. Smith's art is found in the Pentagon, Naval Aviation Museum and many other locations where aviation is appreciated. His illustra- tions span the period from the flight of the Curtiss Pusher to that of the Boeing F/A-18. Smith's painting of a Boeing F4B-3 was on the cover of this magazine's ``U.S. Naval Aviation at 90'' issue on Apr. 9. Many other of his paintings illustrated inside pages of that issue.
John Brady has been named chief financial officer of the Time Domain Corp., Huntsville, Ala. He was CFO of Hungarian telephone company Matav and deputy CFO of Danish telephone companyTeledanmark, both owned by SBC/ Ameritech.
Elizabeth Contreras Eisenstat has been appointed vice president-service to industry for the Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation. She was senior vice president/chief operating officer of Sykes Communications.
Ingo Roehle (see photos) from the DLRL German aerospace research agency has won first prize and Alexandre Bresson from the Onera French aerospace research agency second prize in the Assn. of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics' and Pratt&Whitney 2001 joint science award program. Roehle's prize recognized a thesis covering the application of laser diagnostic techniques to turbo-machinery facilities. Bresson was recognized for a study devoted to quantitative imaging techniques in laser-induced fluorescence applied to turbulent flows and combustion.
British Airways has sold its low-cost subsidiary Go to 3i Group, a venture capital company for a total of 110 million pounds ($150.7 million). Barbara Cassani will remain as chief executive of the three-year-old carrier which is based at Stansted London airport.
Kenneth H. Guss (see photo) has become CEO and Jack Faherty (see photo) chief financial officer of the Senior Aerospace Group, Sharon, Mass. Launie Fleming has been named chief executive of Senior Aerospace-SSP.
Sweden's civil aviation authority LFV is giving airline passengers the opportunity to use the Internet to choose their international flight based on its potential impact on the environment, through a special database at www.lfv.se. A traveler may also assess the amount of emissions that would be released into the atmosphere during that particular flight.
Michael N. Beckstead has been appointed president/general manager of AAR Distribution, Elk Grove Village, Ill. He was group director of business development for the Honeywell Aerospace Services Group.
Designers testing antenna performance can now access a new application note from Giga-tronics, ``Using the 12,000A for Antenna Measurement.'' Created for use with the company's 20-GHz. microwave synthesizer, it describes and diagrams techniques and equipment requirements for both far- and near-field measurements. It applies to systems with applications in satellite transmission, aircraft navigation and electronic defense.
After 25 years in the laboratory, the Dutch-developed Glare material is getting its first production use as primary structure in the A380 fuselage. The material is made of alternating layers of aluminum and fiberglass bonded together, which gives the name Glare (GLAss fiber REinforced aluminum). Its key structural property is better fatigue resistance, and in fatigue-critical areas it can take 20-25% higher loads than conventional aluminum. Engineers estimate it will save 15-20% weight in the upper fuselage skin areas where it is used.
This new line of snap-and-lock sockets is compatible with Leach's Series J, K, JA, KA, KL and TDX subminiature relays. Designed to snap and lock into a relay panel without the use of hardware, the SSL series reduces installation time and cost. The sockets mate with either the Leach captive-hardware-style relay or the Leach standard socket-mount relay. The SSL series is available in both two- and four-pole models and is designed to the performance requirements of MIL-PRF-12883/40 and /41. It is recommended for aircraft, space and other high-reliability applications.
Fluidic Systems is introducing a pump technology for its PK2/PK3 component dispensing systems. Current applications include three component waterborne CARC camouflage coatings and polysulfide aircraft sealants for the Marine Corps. The system is based on a microprocessor-controlled DC drive coupled to a new patent-pending linear displacement pump. The positive displacement pump system provides continuous pulse free flow from 0-3,000 psi for air and airless applications.
Jeff Krolopp (see photo) has been appointed vice president-strategic marketing for Bearing Inspection Inc., Los Alamitos, Calif. He was director of marketing and sales for the Airpax Corp.
Pushp Kumar Sharma (see photo) has been promoted to vice president/chief information officer from vice president-information systems for TriPoint Global Communications, Gastonia, N.C.
Effective, broad-ranging intelligence can be a mixed blessing in that U.S. Air Force planners are now realizing how much danger there is in the world, not just to those in the cockpit but also to service members and families in garrisons across the globe.
If you have the right security clearances, there is a place here you can go to find an answer to the warfighter's most crucial question, ``Where are the bad guys today?'' The Joint Analysis Center (JAC)--European Command's intelligence factory--employs 1,500 people, many of them intelligence specialists, and is the only growth industry at this otherwise somnambulant base northeast of London.
Three major airlines have tentatively agreed to partner with Boeing's Connexion business unit to bring high-bandwidth inflight Internet, e-mail and live TV to passengers via wireless links to laptop computers or handheld devices. The service would start in mid-2002.
Stephanie Snyder has been named director of marketing and customer service, Jane E. Rovolis director of event marketing and Jennifer Giffen director of staffing and diversity, all for the Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Savannah, Ga. Michael Chase has been promoted to director of market research from manager of sales research and analysis. Clayborne Roberts has become customer program manager based in Long Beach, Calif. He was an aircraft manager.
Green Hills Software introduced its Integrity real-time operating system for Rational Rose RealTime visual development environment. The Integrity RTOS provides a secure environment for taking applications developed under Rose RealTime and executing them on an embedded target system. RealTime facilitates a top-down approach to software design that makes it easier to conceptualize and structure complex applications.
Thales Defense Communications is to provide the ground station communications infrastructure for the U.K.'s Airborne Stand-Off Radar (Astor) program. Thales' system, selected by Astor prime contractor Raytheon Systems Ltd., will provide a full range of voice, image, video and data multimedia services.
