Aviation Week & Space Technology

Sean I. McCormack has been named vice president-communications for Seattle-based Boeing Commercial Airplanes , succeeding Mark G. Hooper , who plans to retire Sept. 1. McCormack has been Boeing’s corporate vice president-communications for government operations in Washington. Anne C.

MRO deals underscore provider diversification and OEM aspirations

Christina Johansson has become chief financial officer of Zurich-based SR Technics. She succeeds Angelo Quabba, who is leaving the company. Johansson was vice president-finance at the Poyry Energy Business Group of Switzerland.

Air New Zealand taps latest Boeing and Airbus offerings to overhaul its international fleet

During the Farnborough International Airshow this month, Israel Aerospace Industries CEO and President Joseph Weiss talked with Paris Bureau Chief Amy Svitak, about plans to expand the company’s presence in the global space sector with exports of remote-sensing and communications satellites.

Todd Bitgood (see photo) has been promoted to manager of FlightSafety International’s Learning Center in Long Beach, California, from assistant manager of the St. Louis Learning Center. He succeeds Pete Nily, who has become a regional director of training operations.

Doctors and nurses are increasingly working at the forefront of battlefields

Jim Welch has been appointed chairman of the Louisville (Kentucky) Regional Airport Authority board of directors. He was vice chairman and has been succeeded by Phil Lynch. Jon Meyer has been reelected secretary-treasurer. Welch is vice chairman of the Brown-Forman Corp. and Lynch is its vice president-corporate communications. Meyer is partner/chairman of Jones, Nale and Mattingly, certified public accountants.

David Hewitt, executive vice president for safety of Wheels Up, has been named chairman of the Alexandria, Virginia-based Air Charter Safety Foundation. Greg Kinsella, president/CEO of Key Air, is the new vice chairman. Hewitt succeeds Jeff Baum, president/CEO of Wisconsin Aviation.

Israel bolsters Iron Dome system in current conflict

Considering a cooperative fighter program, Japan ground-tests its demonstrator

A&D business proceeds despite visa snub and sanctions

Unmanned aircraft developed as bridge between wind-tunnel and manned-flight testing

The Vietnamese navy is close to completing its first fleet of fixed-wing aircraft with the delivery of the final pair of Viking Air DHC-6-400 Guardian maritime patrol and utility aircraft.

Eurofighter hopes adding AESA radar will improve Typhoon sales, export prospects

Bombardier hopes engine mod ends CSeries grounding

After the SpaceX protest, U.S. Air Force seeks more-competitive launch opportunities

Commercial space is the wave of the past

The surface of Mars is the most ambitious target for human explorers in the foreseeable future, given the state of technology, funding and political will today, according to a U.S. National Research Council study team that examined the issue over the past year and a half.

‘Re-life’ program and gross weight increases boost market prospects for aging Twin Otters

Norwegian Air International faces an unprecedented delay to serve the U.S.

For the first several decades of human space activity, the economically and militarily valuable region of near-Earth orbit seemed like an infinite resource.

Grounding could jeopardize export orders

Commercial cargo-carrier upgrade could ship supplies to deep space

Inaki Lopez Gandasegui (see photo), president of Aernnova, has been elected president of Hegan, the Basque Aerospace Cluster based in Bilbao, Spain. He succeeds Ignacio Mataix, CEO of the ITP Group, who is now vice president of Hegan. Elected secretary was Jorge Unda, managing director of Sener Engineering.