Aviation Week & Space Technology

Counter-stealth radars could proliferate

Major upgrade enhances Australia’s continent-wide monitoring system

SNPL pilot union demands could sink a struggling Air France

A conundrum: Increasingly reliable aircraft lead to disengaged pilots

Industry blasts FAA for lack of flight-testing on LED replacement lights.

Confident that unconventional designs can reduce aircraft noise, NASA eyes less radical approaches.

Big M&A may lurk, but divestitures remain industry’s go-to portfolio shaper

Satellites enable everything from better weather forecasts to smartphones; we would literally be lost without them.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko poses an unexpected challenge for Rosetta mission.

NASA turns to numerical simulation to prove flap and gear noise reduction

The two major airlines in the Philippines are seizing new opportunities offered by fleet changes and government rulings.

F135 engine fix for F-25s could be complete as early as next year

USAF Brig. Gen. (ret.) John R. “Bob” Ranck has been appointed to succeed Buddy Sams as Washington-based senior vice president-government programs and sales of the Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Savannah, Georgia. Sams plans to retire at year-end.

Angelia Keene (see photo) has been appointed director of safety for Aloha Air Cargo. She was director of ground and flight safety for Island Air.

Calvin Martin has been named general manager of Cutter Aviation’s Colorado Springs location. Russell “Buck” Myers has become the company’s avionics supervisor.

Jeremy Bennett has been named Huntsville, Alabama-based manager of business development for Summit Aviation. He was director of flight operations for Wyle at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center in Huntsville.

USAF Lt. Gen. Tod D. Wolters has been named deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and requirements at USAF Headquarters at the Pentagon. He has been commander of the Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern) of Air Combat Command (ACC), Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Brig. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson has been nominated for promotion to major general and has been director of intelligence at ACC Headquarters, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Brig. Gen. Paul H. Guemmer has been appointed commander of the Jeanne M.

Scott Henry has become Novi, Michigan-based Eastern U.S. sales manager for Diversified Technical Systems.

Tom Eaton has become Washington-based vice president-international sales for Telesat. He succeeds Nigel Gibson, who will be leaving the company. Eaton has been president of Harris CapRock Communications and was executive vice president-global sales and marketing of PanAmSat and vice president of global sales and customer support at Intelsat.

Chari Kinney (see photo) has become Seattle-based vice president-sales for Plexus Planning of the U.K. She was an executive with BDM Enterprise Solutions & Consulting Services.

Brad Busse has been named to the board of directors of Denver-based Bye Aerospace Inc. He is president of Busse Ventures and was an executive with RBC Capital Markets.

Moreno Aguiari has been appointed head of the East Coast U.S. division of Mesotis Jets at Atlanta Dekalb-Peachtree Airport.

Dante Lauretta has been named a science adviser to Planetary Resources Inc., Redmond, Washington. He is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of Osiris-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Robert V. Hoppa has been named director of U.S. Africa Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany. He has been deputy chief of staff for intelligence at International Security Assistance Force Headquarters and deputy director for operations and support for United States Forces-Afghanistan.

Patrick Mills has been appointed chief mechanical engineer within the Airborne Power and Control Div. of Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, Kirkland, Washington. He was an engineer for the Eaton Corp.