Lawrence Kull has been appointed to the board of directors of Space Electronics Inc. of San Diego. He is retired as president/chief operating officer of the Science Applications International Corp.
U.S. and coalition commanders in Kuwait have been equipped with off-the-shelf pagers that warn of incoming tactical ballistic missiles (TBMs). Under the Early Warning Pager Initiative, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Command, working through the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense command, distributed the pagers, which leverage in-country commercial paging capabilities.
CANADA TRANS-portation Agency (CTA) turned down Air Canada and Air China's code-share application because China is designated by CTA as a single-carrier market served by Canadian Airlines. The application involved placing Air China codes on Air Canada Vancouver-Toronto and Vancouver-Montreal flights. Air Canada may appeal because it wants a marketing pact with Air China. Canadian has had code share discussions with China Eastern.
Kristine L. Estes, manager of technical affairs and operations for the Washington-based General Aviation Manufacturers Assn., has been named chair of the Business Aviation Subcommittee of the National Research Council of the Transportation Research Board.
Launch of initial elements for the International Space Station will be delayed until at least November and December and later station assembly milestones pushed 5-6 months downstream under a plan being approved late last week by the program's international partners.
Nippon Cargo Airlines, a subsidiary of All Nippon Airways, is seeking permission from Japan's Ministry of Transport to code-share with United Parcel Service and Northwest Airlines on transpacific freighter services beginning this summer. If approved, the agreement will mark the first freight code-share by Japanese carriers. NCA and UPS would provide joint Tokyo-Chicago and Osaka-Chicago services, using UPS freighters. NCA and Northwest would provide similar services from Osaka to Chicago using both companies' aircraft.
Although hackers calling themselves ``Masters of Download'' claim to have knocked out the Galaxy 4 communications satellite on May 19, owner PanAmSat said it has ruled out ``external causes.'' The company is investigating component failure on the Hughes-built HS 601 as the most likely reason why the satellite lost both its primary and on-board spacecraft control processors, crippling pagers and other communications services across the U.S. (AW&ST May 25, p. 17). Galaxy 4 has been bumped up into a higher, storage orbit while the failure investigation continues.
Shuttle Mission 91, set for launch to Mir on June 2, will culminate nearly four years of flights which have given the U.S. and Russia a strong foundation of joint operating experience as they move into assembly of the International Space Station with Europe, Japan and Canada.
Cathay Pacific Chairman Peter Sutch has indicated the Hong Kong carrier is close to choosing an alliance partner--but he also warns that the airline faces a difficult year which could see it defy tradition and lose money. With a reputation for good management and a home base in one of Asia's premier hubs, Cathay has been wooed by major alliances: the British Airways group, United Airlines/Lufthansa's Star Alliance and KLM/ Northwest.
The list of service secretary nominees awaiting confirmation has grown. President Clinton has nominated attorney and former California state legislator Louis Caldera to be Army Secretary. Caldera, a 1978 graduate of West Point and five-year Army veteran, is currently managing director of the Corporation for National Service. Meanwhile, Florida state Sen. Daryl Jones is still awaiting congressional confirmation hearings some seven months after being nominated as Air Force secretary.
The U.S. Army and Boeing Sikorsky are considering plans that would lead to accelerated integration of the Longbow attack system into the RAH-66 Comanche. Plans now being weighed would place the Longbow system on the first production Comanches when they are fielded in 2006. Without an acceleration, Longbow will not become part of a production Comanche until Lot 6 aircraft begin deliveries in 2011. About 152 RAH-66s will probably be manufactured in the first five production lots.
Manfred Bischoff, chairman and CEO of Daimler-Benz Aerospace, while optimistic that agreement can be reached on consolidation of European aerospace and defense industries, warned that time is running out.
Air France's newly restored profitability and the French government's long-awaited plan to partly privatize the state-owned carrier are being jeopardized by a fierce dispute with pilots' unions.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS VOWED to press Pakistan and India to halt their nuclear development in place, but has conceded it can do little more than jawbone. As required by law, President Clinton immediately invoked additional economic sanctions against Pakistan in the wake of Islamabad's nuclear tests on May 28. A delegation of Pakistani officials is scheduled to meet with the Clinton Administration this week.
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group's employee flight-training incentive plan has helped fund 157 solo flights and 101 private pilots' licenses. The two-year-old program, initiated by BCAG President Ron Woodard, offers employees a $500 subsidy on completion of first solo and an additional $1,000 upon receiving a private pilot's license. Boeing provides free ground school, not including course materials, through a related learning and development program. The goal is to increase employees' job-related interest and enthusiasm by getting them actively involved in flying.
The focus of airport operators solely on terminals, tarmac, runway extensions, passenger facility charges and the like is coming to an end as airport operators and their organizations become increasingly involved in how Communication, Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) systems are implemented.
The prospect of a continued decline in real spending on the European Space Agency's Horizons 2000 program is threatening the future of vital science projects, but the ax no longer appears set to fall on the proposed Mars Express. Horizons 2000 is suffering a 3% per annum loss in real spending power under cost-cutting measures instituted in 1996. ESA scientists are particularly distraught because of the great efforts that have been made since 1996 to overhaul the program and make it more efficient (AW&ST July 21, 1997, p. 56).
Raytheon Systems Ltd., the University of North Dakota Aerospace and Oxford Air Training School have combined curriculums to offer an aviation training program that takes students from ``zero flight time'' through advanced ratings in sophisticated jet transports. The single-source program will make available two of the university's training centers in Grand Forks and Mesa, Ariz., Oxford's facility near the U.K. city of the same name, and the Raytheon Flight Training Center at London's Gatwick Airport.
Alcatel has unveiled a concept called the Innovative Navigation European System (INES) that it believes could result in the establishment of an operational civil Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS-2) by 2004. INES is in response to the call earlier this year by the European Commission for Europe to become actively involved in GNSS or to risk being left behind.
Dave C. Carney (see photos) has been named vice president-marketing/sales and Darrell Wampler vice president-contracts of G&H Technology, Camarillo, Calif. Carney was director of marketing and sales for the Kavlicko Corp., and Wampler was manager of contracts for G&H.
Charles B. Hogge and William L. Baker, chief scientists of the Directed Energy Directorate and High Power Microwave Research Div., respectively, of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, N.M., have received the Award for Exemplary Civilian Service. Hogge was cited for helping to form the laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate and Baker for leadership in planning directed energy research for USAF and the Defense Dept.
