In “Golden Turbine” (AW&ST July 30, p. 14), it is too bad you did not mentioned the venerable Walter M601 and its now revamped type under the GE Aviation label—the H80—with all its Czechoslovakian connotations duly erased. This Czech entry is probably the closest competitor to Pratt & Whitney Canada's PT6, and a successful one at that.
Germany's aerospace industry has been growing, driven by civil air transport demand. But it is facing difficult changes as its defense-related business contracts.
Robert W. O'Brien, Jr., has been appointed executive director of the Wisconsin Airport Managers Association, succeeding Peter L. Drahn, who plans to retire. O'Brien was executive director of Chicago Rockford (Ill.) International Airport and has been a member of the board of directors of the American Association of Airport Executives.
Paul Adams, senior vice president-operations and engineering for Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., has been named to receive the American Society of Mechanical Engineering's 2012 Leadership Award, for advancing the use of computers and information in engineering.
Roy Fuhrmann has been appointed vice president-management and operations of the Metropolitan Airports Commission of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. He was director of its Environment Department and is chairman of Airports Council International-North America's Environmental Affairs Committee.
Canadian Armed Forces Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Lawson is scheduled to become chief of Defense Staff and be promoted to general. He has been deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Lawson will succeed Gen. Walter J. Natynczyk.
Business in China has caused Airbus executives some serious headaches lately, with political wrangling over the European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the crisis at Hong Kong Airlines threatening orders. But now it appears the tide has turned.
William G. Purdy cautioned in 1966 that society was on a path where affluence and regulation threatened to choke off interest in “unorthodox inquiries.”
If Neil Armstrong had written his own obituary, he likely would have said he had been a test pilot, an engineer, an educator and one of the 400,000 Americans who helped land the first humans on the Moon. Less important to him was the combination of experience and lucky career choices that placed him as the first person to reach the surface of a body beyond Earth.
USAF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Ron Ladnier (see photos) has been named director of military business development and Bert Sawyer has been promoted to director of military programs at New York-based FlightSafety International's simulation facility in Tulsa, Okla. Ladnier was director the USAF operations center that synchronized transatlantic shipments to the Middle East with regional transportation. Sawyer has been deputy director of FSI's military simulation programs.
Two of the Philippines' largest business conglomerates are about to do battle in the country's airline industry, and those that get caught in between could be crushed. The domestic market is largely controlled by JG Summit's Cebu Pacific Air and San Miguel Corp.'s Philippine Airlines (PAL). That leaves very little room for Zest Air, AirAsia Philippines and Tiger Airways' Seair Inc.
European Union emission allowance (EUA) prices rose in August, taking support from broad strength in the underlying energy complex. EUAs for December 2012 delivery under the EU Emissions Trading System climbed to €8.20/metric ton ($10.30/mt) Aug. 24, up from €6.97 Aug. 1—a rise of €1.23 or 17.6%.
When a magnitude-5.9 earthquake shook the nation's capital a year ago, the digerati in New York knew about it before the tremblers reached Manhattan, thanks to Twitter and other social media. Now the State Department is trying to tap into that same energy for arms control worldwide. Last week, the government launched a competition in which U.S. citizens could win up to $10,000 by devising a system of using smartphones, cameras and GPS to find out when foreign governments fail to live up to their arms control agreements.
