Keith Williams, executive chairman of British Airways and an executive director of the International Consolidated Airlines Group, received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of West London’s London School of Hospitality and Tourism late last month.
Mike Coffield has been named a consultant with the Washington-based Livingston Group. He was head of government affairs for United Continental Holdings.
Ian Bartholomew has become interim managing director of U.K.-based Monarch Aircraft Engineering Ltd. He has been commercial director and succeeds Mick Adams, who has been named vice president-MRO for Etihad Airways.
Chris Huskamp (see photo) has become executive vice president-business and technical development for the IBC Advanced Alloys Corp., Wilmingon, Massachusetts. He has been a consultant to the company, working on components for the Lockheed Martin F-35.
Jim Kramer (see photo) has been appointed vice president-sales, marketing and communications at International Launch Services, Reston, Virginia. He succeeds Dawn Harms, who has left the company.
USAF Maj. Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy has been nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as deputy commander of United Nations Command Korea/deputy commander of U.S. Forces Korea/commander of Air Component Command South Korea and U.S. Combined Forces Command/commander of the Seventh Air Force, Pacific Air Forces, Osan AB, South Korea. He has been director of operations at Headquarters U.S. Pacific Command, Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. Maj. Gen. Steven L.
Eric Stallmer has been named president of the Washington-based Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Stallmer has been vice president-government relations at Analytical Graphics Inc. and was president of the Space Transportation Association.
Diane Daegele (see photo) has been appointed vice president-business management for the Unmanned Systems Div. of the Northrop Grumman Corp. ’s Redondo Beach, California-based Aerospace Systems sector. She was director of business management for the company’s Space Systems.
Paul Martin has become president of the Aerospace and Industrial Divs. of Oxford Performance Materials Inc., South Windsor, Conn. He was head of military and government activities for the Sikorsky Aircraft Co. and had been executive vice president of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
Brian Perry has been appointed president of Mercury Defense Systems, Cypress, California. He was vice president/general manager of Mercury’s Services and Systems Integration group.
David Weingart (see photo) has been appointed Washington-based executive vice president of GRA Inc. He was director of strategic initiatives at the FAA and had been chief of staff to its administrator.
John L. Plueger has been named to the board of directors of Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems Inc. He is president/chief operating officer of the Air Lease Corp. and was CEO of the International Lease Finance Corp.
Joseph DeMartino has been named chief operating officer of St. Louis-based LMI Aerospace Inc. He was a consultant to the aerospace industry and had held executive positions with GKN Aerospace, also in St. Louis.
Kevin Trosian has become vice president-corporate development and investor relations for Los Angeles-based Global Eagle Entertainment. He held a similar position at Mindspeed and had been vice president-finance and investor relations at Power-One.
James Lackey (see photo) has been appointed executive director of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. He was director of engineering.
Paul Gregorowitsch has been named CEO of Oman Air. He succeeds Wayne Pearce, who has left the company. Gregorowitsch was chief commercial officer of Air Berlin and had been CEO of Martinair and an executive at KLM.
Werner Rothenbacher has become managing director/senior vice president-technical of Airberlin Technik. He succeeds Marco Ciomperlik, who has become chief restructuring officer for the Airberlin Management Board. Rothenbacher was senior vice president-technical operations at Etihad Airways.
Ryan Hartman has been named president/CEO of Boeing subsidiary Insitu , Bingen, Washington. He was senior vice president-programs and succeeds Steve Morrow , who is retiring.
The third Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo carrier to reach the International Space Station reentered the atmosphere Aug. 17 for a splashdown in the Pacific east of New Zealand, wrapping up the second of eight resupply missions for the company under its $1.9 billion commercial resupply services contract with NASA. Carried to orbit July 13 on an Orbital Sciences Antares launch vehicle from Wallops Island, Virginia, the pressurized capsule carried 3,550 lb. of garbage for its destructive return to Earth. It took 3,669 lb.
Cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev deployed a Peruvian cubesat and worked with materials-space-exposure experiments during a 5-hr. extra-vehicular excursion at the International Space Station Aug. 18. Unlike cubesat deployments from the Japanese Kibo module’s robotic arm, which use a mechanical dispenser, Artemyev deployed the small satellite with a toss of the hand in the direction opposite the station’s travel to avoid a future collision.
The European Union is preparing to launch its first fully operational Galileo navigation, positioning and timing satellites Aug. 22, putting the 28-nation body in line to compete with the U.S. GPS, Russian Glonass and Chinese Beidou systems, even as it finalizes details of Galileo’s use.
Bombardier has replaced its vice president of marketing for commercial aircraft, including the slow-selling and still-grounded CSeries airliner. Ross Mitchell, previously in both business and commercial aircraft sales, last week succeeded Philippe Poutissou. Bombardier also has named company veteran Jean Seguin as president of the Aerostructures & Engineering Services business, which was formed in July when the company split the unit off from its Business and Commercial Aircraft segments.
Less than four years after the AC311, one of Avicopter’s key new helicopters, made its first flight, an upgraded version with a different engine has taken to the air. The AC311A also features improvements to flight controls and the rotor, says Avic, the parent of the state helicopter maker. The flight of the aircraft, introducing the Turbomeca Arriel 2B1A engine to the AC311 series, lasted 10 min. and took place at Jingdezhen, the home of Changhe Aircraft, a long-established Chinese helicopter maker that now is part of Avicopter.
