Rudy Canto, Jr., is now director of airline operations at FlightSafety International`s Long Beach (Calif.) Training Center. He was chief pilot for McDonnell Douglas Corp.
All Nippon Airways says it will increase capacity while driving down per-seat costs, expand its domestic and international services and shed still more workers as part of a second-phase comeback program that was started last year. The goal is to raise annual operating revenues to about 910 billion yen ($9.1 billion) in fiscal 1997, or 15% above the current level of 794 billion yen. ANA, which lost money in 1993 and anticipates breaking even in fiscal 1994 (year ending Mar. 31), is not projecting results for 1995.
Increasing business jet sales are expected to heavily contribute to Dassault Aviation's sustained profitability and play a major role in the company's revised strategic plan. Dassault Aviation in 1994 concluded orders for 45 Falcon business jets valued at about $1 billion, up from 23 aircraft in 1993. The company last year also sold 16 used business aircraft. ``We are currently acquiring an increased market share. We sold 20 Falcons since the NBAA Convention [October, 1994],'' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Serge Dassault said.
Officials of E'Prime Aerospace Corp. are pursuing financing to resume development of the USAF Peacekeeper missile as a commercial launch vehicle following the U.S. government's agreement to ensure their work complies with Strategic Arms Reduction treaties.
THE USAF/MCDONNELL Douglas C-17 has been awarded the Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Assn. (NAA) for its versatility as a transport aircraft. Recipients of the 1994 Collier Trophy were the Air Force, McDonnell Douglas and the C-17 team of contractors and suppliers.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is requesting $38.8 million in Fiscal 1996 to pay salaries and expenses for its 350-member workforce. Although the board's request is $1.4 million more than funding enacted for Fiscal 1995, the additional money would ``only maintain our current level of staffing,'' James E. Hall, NTSB chairman, said. Salaries and benefits account for 73.1% of the board's budget.
A second former executive of Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp. of Orangeburg, N.Y., has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to improper repairs of aircraft engine parts. James M. Gabriel, an executive vice president who headed the Chromalloy Research and Technology Div., was named in a nine-count indictment alleging mail fraud, wire fraud, making false statements to the FAA, obstruction of justice, and engaging in two conspiracies.
Richard J. Powers has been named director of financial administration of the Aerospace Industries Assn. in Washington. He was chief of the financial advisory services branch at the National Institutes of Health.
A new U.S./Canadian bilateral agreement may be signed this week by President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Jean Chretien, freeing up U.S. and Canadian carriers to serve new cross border routes.
ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE HAS BEEN DEALT A MAJOR POLITICAL SETBACK, partly because of the emerging House conflict between Republican deficit hawks and Republican defense hawks.
KHRUNICHEV AND LOCKHEED have reached agreement on a price for the FGB Functional Energy Block that is to be the key element of the international space station NASA is developing. The U.S. company, which is a subcontractor to Boeing on the station program, will pay $190 million for delivery in orbit of the unit, also known as the Salyut FGB. Scheduled to be lifted into orbit in November, 1997, it will be the first station element launched.
John P. Schreitmueller has been appointed senior vice president/managing director of the aviation, aerospace and defense practice at Reedy&Co. of Dallas. He was vice president.
RUSSIA continues to offer little potential for industrial alliances with Western aerospace manufacturers owing to its political instability and shaky finances, according to Serge Dassault, chairman and chief executive officer of France's Dassault Aviation. Although MiG is producing subassemblies for Dassault's Falcon business jet line, Dassault has canceled plans to join the MiG-AT jet trainer program.
Arnold L. Torres has been named senior manager/director of suborbital projects and operations of NASA's Wallops Island, Va., facility. He was chief of the Operations Div./deputy director of suborbital projects and operations. Torres succeeds Joseph T. McGoogan, who has retired.
The U.S. Defense Dept. is reshaping the management of military space system acquisitions and operations to focus increasingly scarce resources on field commanders' actual needs. The sweeping changes also are aimed at defusing congressional criticisms of U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army competition for dominant space management roles.
U.S. UNIVERSITIES COULD BETTER transfer technology to industry if they adopted the German practice of establishing Fraunhofer institutes, according to a report by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Fraunhofer institute is run like a business, faces fewer legal constraints than universities and employs full-time workers as well as university professors, the latter effectively functioning as senior executives.
Antonov Design Bureau's prototype An-70 transport crashed near Kiev Feb. 10 after colliding with an An-72 chase aircraft. All crewmembers on board the An-70 died. The crew of the An-72 made an emergency, gear-up landing at Gostomel, the departure point for both aircraft. Gostomel is Antonov's flight test facility, located near the Ukrainian capital.
BRITISH AIRWAYS PASSENGERS traveling between London and Auckland, New Zealand, will be able to save up to 3 hr. on the lengthy journey using new code-sharing, connecting service through Los Angeles beginning Mar. 26. Three times a week, a British Airways London-Los Angeles flight will connect to a Los Angeles-Auckland flight operated by BA partner Qantas. Currently, BA offers flights, with two or three stops, to Auckland going east from London.
David Mitchell is now vice president/general manager of Batelle's Transportation Div., Columbus, Ohio. He was deputy director for transportation systems.
Richard S. Wigton has been appointed manager of Challenger training programs at SimuFlight Training International, Dallas/Ft. Worth. He was director of operations for Rainin Instrument Co. SimuFlite has promoted Marjorie K. DeLong (see photo) to manager of sales representatives. She was sales manager for the North Central Region, based in Chicago, where she is succeeded by George Black, 3rd (see photo), who represented SimuFlite in the Western U.S. and Canada. Karen D. Montalvo (see photo) has been promoted to manager of marketing services.
Rough seas and winds nearly destroyed the $76-million pair of solid-rocket boosters that helped launch the shuttle Discovery. NASA engineers did a full-scale failure analysis to verify that the damage to the SRBs was in fact caused by surface conditions and not by a problem during their roughly 2 min. of powered flight Feb. 3. The effort was required to clear Endeavour to fly on Mission 67 at 6:37 a.m. GMT on Mar. 2.
