Larry Hungerford (see photo) has been named president/CEO of Washington-based Terma North America Inc. He has been its vice president-business development for command, control and sensor systems, and was vice president-domestic business development for space programs at Lockheed Martin.
USN Rear Adms. (lower half) Mark W. Darrah, Mathias W. Winter and Gordon D. Peters have been selected for promotion to rear admiral. Darrah will become program executive officer for Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation at Patuxent River, Maryland. He will succeed Winter, who has been named chief of naval research/director of innovation, technology requirements, and test and evaluation.
Kevin A. Bell (see photo) has been appointed lead executive for Northrop Grumman Corp. business in Dayton, Ohio. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as assistant to the commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center at nearby Wright Patterson AFB.
Candace Chesser (see photo) has been promoted to program manager from deputy program manager of the U.S. Navy’s Air Combat Electronics Program Office, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. She succeeds Capt. Tracy Barkhimer, who has retired. Chesser was principal deputy program manager for the Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office.
Col. Larry Myrick of San Luis Obispo, California, has been named the next national vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. He is an adviser to the CAP national commander, Maj. Gen. Chuck Carr. Col. Larry Ragland, who has been Middle East commander, has been named chief of staff to the national commander, Brig. Gen. Joe Vazquez. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jayson Altieri of CAP’s North Carolina Wing, has been appointed vice chairman of the CAP board of governors. He succeeds Lt. Col.
Glenn Hausmann (see photo) has been promoted to manager of FlightSafety International’s Learning Center at New York LaGuardia Airport from the facility’s director of standards and manager. He succeeds Ralph Lintelman (see photo) who has been named manager of the Learning Center in Wilmington, Delaware. Lintelman follows Barry Massey, who plans to retire on July 31.
Jeff Plant has been appointed leader of the American Airlines team at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. He was the airline’s managing director at Los Angeles International Airport. Plant succeeds Art Pappas, who will be retiring.
Long dreaded by the defense industry, a significant ramping down of war--related supplemental budgets has begun with the Obama administration’s outline of its fiscal 2015 request. The White House submitted a summary in late June—although not yet actual legislation—to lawmakers of its Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget for the year starting Oct. 1.
Two years after he ushered his “Pilot’s Bill of Rights” into law to bolster private pilots’ positions during federal enforcement actions, the Capitol’s leading everyman-aviator advocate, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), wants to further amend the list.
John Clements has become director of research, development and testing for Proof Research, Columbia Falls, Montana. He was weapons program manager at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.
Lockheed Martin Chairman, President and CEO Marillyn Hewson sat down outside Washington with AW&ST Editor-in-Chief Joseph C. Anselmo and Senior Pentagon Editor Amy Butler to talk about the issues facing the company and its programs.
Surely the caption accompanying a photograph in “New World” ( AW&ST June 30, p. 53) should indicate that the aircraft is an Airbus A350, not the A340, as stated. (The reader is correct—Ed.)
As I read Bill Sweetman’s recent commentary “Hot Air” ( AW&ST May 26-June 2, p. 15), regarding the landing mat challenges for the F-35B vertical-landing aircraft, I wondered if a low-cost, low-tech solution to this problem is already on hand. Why not investigate the use of a mat that has tubes filled with water?
It is quite a telling experience to try and search for information about Rollin King on Southwest Airlines’ website. In the “Officers” category of the company’s official online history presentation, King is only mentioned once: “Rollin W. King, a founder and former president of Southwest Airlines, has been named Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of Panama Air International” (Nov. 26, 1991).
It is fascinating to me how many organizations, contracts, people, studies, tests and reports (to say nothing of various journalists) have climbed on the bandwagon of “What will the F-35B exhaust do to a ship’s deck during a vertical landing?” Perhaps nobody in charge of paying for all this has noticed that the rubber tires on the wheels can handle such landings just fine.
Something does not add up with reader Bill Johnson’s letter and accompanying photograph ( AW&ST June 16, p. 9) about his memory of Lufthansa Boeing 747 training in 1971 and the photo of D-ABYC. The photo is of a Boeing 747-8, which was manufactured in 2012 so could not have been the aircraft Johnson saw in 1971. I am curious as to whether Lufthansa reused the registration D-ABYC on two different aircraft. Can anyone shed light on this?
The three-article coverage of Space Solar Power ( AW&ST June 9, pp. 42-45) highlights a bigger problem than just solving future electrical needs. Frank Morring, Jr., wrote about the potential to destroy severe hurricanes, fight global warming by eliminating green house gases, and save lives in combat zones.
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 cleared initial power and communications checkouts following a nominal liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from a foggy Vandenberg AFB, California, early July 2. On its way to a 438-mi.-high, Sun-synchronous orbit, the satellite began a two-year, $468 million primary mission to assess carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels in the Earth’s atmosphere and the influence of greenhouse gases on climate change.
