Enigma Inc. appointed Dean Germeyer to the post of vice president of business development. The company also appointed Wil Lammers president of Enigma Europe and Pete Peterson general manager, West Coast.
From its genesis in the mid-1980s, Professional Modification Services worked to establish a reputation for its airframe maintenance services among cargo and passenger carriers in the Western Hemisphere. Four of the five founding partners of the company were longtime veterans of Eastern Airlines' maintenance operations (the fifth was the financial backer), and all retained key roles in the day-to-day running of the heavy repair shop, based in an old Pan American hangar on the fringe of Miami International Airport.
Honeywell is combining its company-wide e-business initiatives into one organization and placing it under the leadership of Russ McMeekin, president of e-business. McKeekin, who has overseen the launch of the company's core e-biz hubs (MyAircraft, MyPlant.com and MyFacilities.com), will report directly to Honeywell Chairman and CEO Michael Bonsignore.
Duncan Aviation completed a new 123,000-sq. ft. modifications, service and completions complex at its Lincoln, Neb., facility in October. The facility will accommodate aircraft as large as the Bombardier Global Express or Gulfstream V.
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is building a new hangar at BizJet International in Tulsa. LHT acquired Bizjet earlier this year. The new hangar, which is expected to be completed early in 2001, will be large enough to accommodate two aircraft the size of the Boeing BBJ or the Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner.
Rockwell Collins Air Transport Systems' 2001 product catalog is available online at www.collins.rockwell.com/ecat. Catalog contains product overviews, descriptions, pricing and specifications and allows Rockwell Collins customers to browse by product line, systems and aircraft platforms. Information also is available regarding maintenance, training, repair and overhaul services provided by Collins Aviation Services.
TAP Air Portugal and Air France Industries (AFI) signed an agreement of industrial cooperation under which AFI will overhaul TAP's CFM56-5 and CF6-80 engines, while TAP will perform overhauls of Air France Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 narrowbody aircraft.
Fokker Services recently delivered to the government of Argentina an extensively refurbished and modernized F28 Mk4000 aircraft. The modification included a digital flightdeck upgrade as well as conversion of the standard passenger cabin to a combined VIP/staff interior. Flightdeck upgrade is centered around an integrated Honeywell avionics suite.
Maintenance technicians worldwide soon could owe a major debt to computer game makers -- not because the games keep the kids quiet, but because their ability to produce three-dimensional imagery brings virtual reality (VR) training aids a big step closer. The key not only lies in the lifelike graphics, but in the software that makes them interactive. The combination heralds a whole new era in simulation training devices, potentially benefiting anything from sailing to surgery and machine tools to maintenance.
Sabena Technics and Air France Industries signed an agreement under which AFI will overhaul Sabena's fleet of CFM56-5C engines, while Sabena will overhaul Air France's CFM56-3 engine fleet.
United Services considers itself an innovator when it comes to maintenance training. It has co-developed a number of commercially available computer-based training (CBT) programs and was one of the first operators to implement Airbus Industrie's cockpit mockup operating system. According to its marketing materials, United Services' innovations ``have set new standards for the industry.''
The European Commission (EC) last month presented a proposal to the European Council of Transport Ministers that would replace Europe's Joint Aviation Authority (JAA) with a powerful new aviation safety agency. The EC's goal is to create a pan-European regulator with real teeth, legally empowered to legislate and enforce safety standards across the EU. But as with most things that require the agreement of the EU's 15 countries, the proposal submitted Oct. 2 was a watered-down version of the original concept.
Boeing concluded its purchase of Jeppesen Sanderson Inc., which becomes a wholly owned subsidiary reporting to the Commercial Aviation Services business unit of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group.
Work is now well-advanced by the former Racal Avionics, now Thomson Racal Defense, on two contracts worth nearly $90 million, with five-year options for almost another $60 million, placed earlier this year to upgrade the communications and navigation systems of Royal Navy GKN Westland Lynx HMA Mk 8 and RAF Boeing Chinook HC.2/2A helicopters. Rockwell Collins AN/ARC-210 radio, as the basis of the U.S. company's new TALON advanced UHF/VHF communication system, was selected by Racal to meet the U.K.
Chelton Electrostatics, Ltd. purchased BAE Systems' radomes business based at Stevenage, U.K., and renamed it Chelton Radomes, Ltd. New company will continue an agreement with Nordam Texas to repair and overhaul radomes for Nordam customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Aviation Management Systems, Phoenix, named John A. Martin, a long-time executive at BFGoodrich, its president and CEO. Martin most recently was president of BFGoodrich Aerospace's Aviation Services Division in Everett, Wash.
Triumph Group reached an agreement with Honeywell International to purchase ``certain assets'' used in the design, manufacture and overhaul of hydraulic pumps, motors and power transfer units. The product lines will be moved from Honeywell's Rocky Mount, N.C., manufacturing facility to Triumph subsidiary Frisby Aerospace, Inc., based in Clemmons, N.C.
For the past 15 years, supply chain management (SCM) has just missed being famous. For all its potential to improve and simplify the basic supplier operation, it has remained a shrewd system of business efficiency that largely has been underutilized. Up to now. Today, entire spheres of the corporate function are changing, and supply chain management (SCM) is becoming one of the most widely researched topics in commerce and industry because it may be one of the most cost-effective improvements a company can adopt.
A current avionics upgrade program now involving at least 40 of the IAF's BAe Jaguar ground-attack fighters, which are being equipped with digital nav/attack systems, including Sextant 6 x 6in cockpit displays and new autopilots, is being supplemented by an order from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) to Smiths Industries Aerospace for replacement mission computers. Together, Smiths Industries and HAL's Accessories Complex at Korwa will design, develop and manufacture a new open systems architecture mission computer (OSAMC).
Rolls-Royce has formed a partnership with Chromalloy to provide advanced engine component repair services on RB211, Tay and Trent engines. Turbine Repair Technologies Ltd. will be based at Chromalloy's existing facility in Somercotes, England, and will employ up to 170 people.
FAA granted supplemental type certification for Aviation Partners Boeing's (APB) ``blended winglet'' 8-ft. winglet extensions for the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ). With the STC, Boeing will begin offering the winglets, which APB says extends the aircraft's range by 300 nmi. or increases payload by 4,000 lbs. APB is working on certifying the winglets for Boeing 737 commercial airliners.
Flight development started at BAE Systems' Warton facility in early June, in the hands of factory test pilot Gordon McClymont, of an RAF Jaguar equipped with an uprated Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca Adour Mk 106 turbofan alongside its standard 7,900-lbs. thrust afterburning Mk 104 engine. Some 122 Adour Mk 104s are to be uprated at Rolls-Royce's Bristol and East Kilbride factories as Mk 106s developing 8,800 lbs. thrust for take-off, for the RAF's Jaguar fleet.
