Mark Mitchell (see photo), who has been CEO of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty in Hong Kong, has been named CEO for Asia, effective Oct. 1. He will succeed Alexander Ankel, who is leaving the company.
Andy Frost has become chief commercial officer and Tom Wright the Dallas-based vice president-sales for North America for Germany-based Signalhorn. Frost has been vice president-strategic business development. Wright was vice president for NewSat of Australia, vice president of United Networks in Kuwait and sales director for Comstream of San Diego.
Greg Paxson has become Part 135 director of maintenance for Sun Air Jets, Camarillo, California. He succeeds Dave Anderson, who is now Part 145 accountable manager.
The Moon is the next world for humanity to explore and turn into a new home—even as we push out into the deeper ocean of space. -Forty-five years ago, a few of us wandered her surface, yet we turned away, not realizing the importance of what we had done—or what could be done. Now it is clearly time to return and, by learning how to live there, to prepare ourselves to plant the seeds of humanity on the red sands of Mars.
I greatly enjoyed the highly detailed “Road Map” ( AW&ST Aug. 25, p. 36), outlining the new Rolls-Royce turbofan strategy. Now all three engine manufacturers have plans in place to develop engines that offer lower noise and double-digit improvements in fuel burn—a boon for the flying public.
Even if information is publicly accessible, should it be deliberately circulated? That is the question surrounding the National Transportation Safety Board’s decision to oust UPS and its pilots union, the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), from the investigation into the August 2013 crash of UPS Flight 1354. On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Aug.
A version of this article appears in the September 1 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Retired NASA astronaut and USAF Col. Steven R. Nagel died Aug. 21 in Columbia, Missouri, reportedly after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.
Flight controllers interrupted the intermittent release of 28 Earth-observing cubesats from the International Space Station’s (ISS) Japanese Kibo lab module following a spontaneous deployment of two of the small satellites. The commercial NanoRacks Small Satellite Deployer Mechanism was powered down after the Aug. 23 incident, in which two Planet Labs Flock 1B cubesats were spontaneously ejected. The satellites are being tracked and do not pose a collision threat to the ISS, NASA spokesman Dan Huot says.
