John L. Garibaldi has been appointed executive vice president/chief financial officer of Hawaiian Airlines. He succeeds C.J. David Davies, who is retiring. Garibaldi was vice president/CFO of The Queen's Health Systems.
When flights from three airlines land at Munich airport, they are collecting data that the Collins DASA Avionics Systems joint venture company is using to assess Differential-GPS performance and look for operational applications.
Last week, the prestigious Collier Trophy was presented to the Boeing Co. and the team from across the aviation and airline industries that helped it design the advanced technology 777 transport.
Siemens and Daimler-Benz Aerospace are pursuing development of active phased array radars, but their efforts lag those of the U.S., and neither company expects German aircraft to use such radars operationally until 2010. But DASA hopes to have a demonstration flight test by the year 2000. The challenge that has stalled the new technology is the inability to produce affordable, small, lightweight solid-state transmit/receive (T/R) modules. Typically, an active phased array on an aircraft would require 2,000-plus modules.
EVANS&SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORP. plans to tap Terabit's specialized display capabilities in expanding its product line to include more realistic synthetic environments, such as simulated electronic flight instrumentation suites. The company has formed its Display Systems unit, combining its own resources with the recently acquired Terabit, to identify new markets for a variety of advanced display devices. The Display Systems group is to continue servicing and supporting fielded Terabit systems.
ALITALIA'S NEWLY APPOINTED TOP OFFICIALS are scheduled to complete in the next few weeks another five-year strategic plan--the company's fourth attempt to halt losses since 1994. Earlier efforts to slash production costs and restore profitability failed in a fierce controversy with unions and tense relations with IRI, the state-owned holding company that owns a controlling majority in the airline. In 1995, the troubled Italian flag carrier posted $276 million losses, and no signs of improvement are in sight.
British Aerospace has formed a consortium with most of the major European missile-makers, to bid on a contract for a new radar-guided missile for the Eurofighter 2000 worth more than 800 million pounds ($1.2 billion).
Tests of a powered, 86% scale model of Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter candidate indicate that the shaft-coupled vertical lift fan design is a viable contender for the JSF program, company officials say. Powered model tests using a modified F100 engine began early last year at Pratt&Whitney's West Palm Beach, Fla., facilities and concluded in March with a series of evaluations in NASA-Ames Research Center's 80 X 120-ft. wind tunnel.
Ross Chapin has been named to the board of directors of International Aviation Services of Ft. Worth. He is president of Page Gulfstream. Other recent appointments were: Rupert Hoenig director of quality control, Debbie Scally controller and Earl Parker director of production.
THE DC-XA EXPERIMENTAL rocket may make its first flight from the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., as early as May 17. The NASA/McDonnell Douglas vertical takeoff and landing craft was rebuilt from the DC-X to include a graphite epoxy hydrogen tank, a Russian aluminum-lithium oxygen tank and other experimental systems. Engine firings and other systems tests for the DC-XA were completed May 7.
INTERGRAPH'S HONG KONG SUBSIDIARY, working as a subcontractor to Electronic Data Systems, has won a $900,000 contract to provide an airside vehicle permits system for Hong Kong's new Chep Lap Kok airport. The airport authority wants the system to be able to manage issuance of permits and citations and access of vehicles and drivers on the airport.
THREE U.S LAWMAKERS have called for the Pentagon to kill plans to reward the top executives of Lockheed and Martin Marietta with $30 million in bonuses for merging the two companies. ``These captains of the defense industry already make million-dollar salaries and exercise lucrative, large stock options,'' Rep. Peter DeFazio (D.-Ore.) said. He claims the Pentagon circumvented the intent of a 1995 law that prohibits paying overly large executive bonuses from taxpayer funds.
Bruce M. Zorich has been named president of Huck International, Ogden, Utah. He was vice president-automotive operations of Senior Flexonics, Bartlett, Ill.
Still grappling with one of the peskiest problems in modern astronomy, two teams of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have gathered data that converge on a number for the expansion rate of the universe. From that rate--called the Hubble Constant--the age of the universe can be derived. One team's data suggest the universe is 9-12 billion years old; the other's put the range at 11-14 billion years.
Impatient after 14 months of inaction by the FAA, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is insisting on the rapid installation of upgraded digital flight data recorders in Boeing 737-series aircraft.
SATURN'S RINGS ARE LOSING UP to 6,600 lb. (3,000 kg.) of water per sec. to evaporation, but even at that rate they'll likely survive at least a billion more years, according to new projections by astronomers at the Johns Hopkins University, who analyzed data from the Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Spectrograph. The researchers said the icy rings may have formed a billion years ago, although they can't be certain because they don't know what the erosion rate has been in the past.
In an abrupt turnaround, British Airways has put on hold plans announced in January to purchase up to $1 billion worth of new regional jet aircraft. The airline told aircraft manufacturers to stop work on their bids for the proposed order for up to 60 aircraft (AW&ST Jan. 22, p. 23). It would have been BA's largest order since 1991.
Christian M. Shore, vice president-international business development for the Hughes Aircraft Co., has been appointed the Aerospace Industries Assn.'s representative on the U.S. delegation to the NATO Industrial Advisory Group.
SCIENTISTS AT LOS ALAMOS (N.M.) National Laboratory have demonstrated an airborne, laser-based device capable of detecting clouds of biological warfare agents at distances of nearly 20 mi. The portable system can scan up to 1 million acres per hour using laser pulses. Airborne contaminants reflect some of the laser light, which is picked up by a small telescope and focused on a sensitive light detector and computer analyzed. The entire system, which can be mounted on a U.S.
The Air Force's KC-135E Argus electro-optical testbed is being outfitted for flight tests this fall of two lidar systems designed to detect chemical warfare agents at ranges up to 100 km. Argus also has supported missile defense projects--most recently the Airborne Laser--for years, but has been out of service for the last seven months, undergoing a major overhaul and installation of new equipment (AW&ST Oct. 3, 1988, p. 34).
Patrick Gavin has become chief executive officer of France-based Aero International Regional, a joint subsidiary of Aerospatiale, Alenia and British Aerospace. He was Aerospatiale's director for technical-industrial strategy. Gavin succeeds Henri-Paul Puel.
Marty Grier (see photo) has been appointed manager of FlightSafety International's maintenance technician learning center in Wichita, Kan. He was director of maintenance for Raytheon Aircraft Service, also in Wichita.
Two highly-focused NASA and U.S. Air Force research programs just getting underway will develop propulsion systems and airframes that could evolve into hypersonic standoff missiles and strike aircraft after the turn of the century, according to program officials. Although each program has different objectives, they appear to be complementary, and participants in each are coordinating closely. Both are developing basic propulsion technologies essential for either missile or aircraft applications.
One of the last Atlas 1 boosters has launched an Italian/Dutch satellite on a two-year mission to sweep the skies for X-ray-emitting objects. The Lockheed Martin launcher designated AC-78 lifted off Pad 36B here at 12:31:01 a.m. (0431:01 UTC) Apr. 30, at the opening of the first of two windows that day. The manufacturer has one more Atlas 1 on its manifest, for the launch of a U.S advanced weather satellite.
Michael Donovan (see photo) has been appointed chief executive for regional aircraft of British Aerospace. He was chief executive of Avro International. Mike O'Callaghan has been named to head BAe's negotiations with China on the Asian Express regional aircaft program.
