European Union carbon dioxide allowance (EUA) prices under the EU Emissions Trading System made modest gains in August, trading in low volumes as expected during the summer lull. December 2013 EUAs averaged €4.42 per metric ton Aug. 1-27, up from €4.24 in July, according to Platts daily closing assessments. The market this year has been increasingly driven by EU policy, as lawmakers grapple with European Commission proposals to withhold short-term primary supply in a bid to support the price.
Ben Humbert has been named general manager of Landmark Aviation's facility at Gerald R. Ford International Airport, Grand Rapids, Mich. He was a safety and training manager at Atlantic Aviation.
NASA Langley Research Center conducted a full-scale crash test of a former U.S. Marine Corps Boeing CH-46E helicopter on Aug. 28 to test improvements to seats and belts and collect crashworthiness data. The drop set the baseline for another test, planned for next year, that will involve additional technology including composite airframe sections. Thirteen instrumented crash-test dummies and two without instruments were onboard the helicopter when it was released from 30 ft. to impact a soil bed at 35 fps. horizontally and 26 fps. vertically.
Birthplace of the iPhone, e-ticket and McDonald's, California has another first: a fly-all-you-want membership airline. Following a tsunami of pre-launch publicity, Surf Air began operations in June.
Africa's poor air safety performance is an old sore, but there are some hopeful signs that the approach of “all talk, no action” is being reversed. Several initiatives are budding across the continent to improve safety of airline operations and the air transport supply chain.
The North Sea oil industry pioneered the concept of oil and gas support operations. Companies such as Bristow introduced new aircraft and technologies into offshore flight operations, but the evolution has been painful, with North Sea accidents accounting for the loss of more than 90 passengers and crewmembers since the worst one in November 1986. This table shows accidents and incidents that resulted in the loss of an aircraft, lives or both.
Many ironies are at play in the debate here over potential U.S. military strikes in Syria, chief among them Republican infighting and assertions of congressional prerogatives in warmaking, as well as an anti-Iraq War president leading the charge based on intelligence of weapons of mass destruction. But in a more subtle albeit significant twist, the greatest irony inside the Beltway may be the effect of Syrian strikes on national security budgets. There will be winners and losers, for sure, but don't place your bets too fast.
Switzerland's national security policy committee has voted in favor of purchasing 22 Saab JAS-39E Gripen fighter aircraft to replace the country's aging fleet of Northrop F-5 Tiger IIs. The upper house of the Swiss parliament approved the purchase earlier this year, but it halted the program over concerns about payments, as well as guarantees and safeguards in the contract with Sweden. The deal still requires parliamentary approval.
David Yu has been appointed Beijing-based executive director of business development-Asia for the International Bureau of Aviation. He will continue as managing director of Inception Aviation. Yu was Libra Group's chief China representative and vice president-Asia.
An article on page 40 of the July 29 edition misidentified a speaker at a congressional hearing. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is the U.S. House Armed Services Committee member who should have been quoted.
Greg Roberts has become vice president of U.K.-based Curtiss-Wright Controls Avionics and Electronics. He was managing director in the U.K. for the C4ISR and UAV businesses of Northrop Grumman, Defense and Security
Peter Hokanson (see photos) has been appointed CFO of Yankee Pacific Aerospace Inc., Rye, N.H. Its Largo, Fla.-based Jormac Aerospace subsidiary has named Jerry Koh vice president-flight sciences and Colt Mehler vice president-project engineering. Hokanson succeeds Ron Moore, who was consulting CFO.
A government-issued 10-day notice to LAN Argentina to vacate its 2,500-sq.-meter hangar at Aeroparque airport in Buenos Aires without any forewarning, has provoked aviation labor unions to threaten strikes on Aug. 30 if the notice is not withdrawn. An Argentinean judge blocked the eviction on Aug. 28, and the CEOs of LAN and LAN Argentina met with the government's vice minster of economy on Aug. 29, who told the executives that LAN Argentina was welcome to continue operating in the country.
Luiz Sandler has been appointed vice president-sales for South America for the Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. He succeeds Bill Arrazola, who has retired. He was sales director for International Jet Traders, Gulfstream's sales representative for Brazil.
Bombardier has also signed an LOI to begin exploratory discussions with Irkut centered on potential collaboration customer support for Russia's 150-210-seat MS-21, which is scheduled to enter service in 2017.
Lufthansa Cargo plans to phase out two of its MD-11s next year in an effort to limit capacity growth. The airline is taking delivery of its first two of five Boeing 777Fs on firm order, one each in October and November. The carrier currently operates 18 MD-11Fs. While it has not grounded any aircraft during the past two years of weak cargo demand, it has reduced use across the fleet.
