LUCAS AEROSPACE said it won a contract from Sikorsky Aircraft to supply the rescue hoist system for the S-92 Helibus helicopter. The contract to Lucas Aerospace's Brea, Calif., unit is for the design, development and production of one initial hoist. LucasVarity, Lucas Aerospace's parent, did not disclose the value of the contract. Lucas also will provide the drive couplings for the S-92.
Richard H. DeLisle has been appointed president of Scott Aviation. He will succeed Glen W. Lindemann, who has been named chief executive officer and president of the parent company.
BOEING CO. AND EXECUTIVE JET yesterday announced a joint venture to market fractional interests in Boeing Business Jets (DAILY, Oct. 21). The product is a business version of the new generation 737-700, which Borge Boeskov, president of BBJ, said is selling two to three times as fast as anticipated. He said two to three aircraft a month could be coming off Boeing's assembly line for business jet customers. When BBJ was formed last year with General Electric, "we said we can sell 10 a year," he remarked during a press conference in New York.
PRIMEX AEROSPACE CO., Redmond, Wash., won a $10 million contract from Lockheed Martin Astronautics to make the Atlas Roll Control Modules and Centaur Rocket Engine Modules. Deliveries will begin in the third quarter of 1998.
U.S. assumptions that North Korea will not strike U.S. forces for fear of retaliation are wrong, a North Korean army defector told senators yesterday. "Some Americans believe that even if North Korea possessed the ability to strike the U.S., it would never dare to because of the devastating response," Choi Ju-hwal told the Senate Government Affairs subcommittee on international security. "I do not agree with this idea."
Hughes Electronics Corp. said earnings dropped 4.7% to $240.2 million in its 1997 third quarter even as sales grew to $4.1 billion, due mainly to DirecTV subscriber growth and the PanAmSat merger. In the 1996 third quarter, Hughes earned $252 million on sales of $3.8 billion. Hughes attributed the earnings dip to lower operating margins at Delco Electronics. Overall operating profit slipped 3.5% to $375.8 million.
Sen. Dirk Kempthorne (R-Idaho), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced he will not run for re-election next year, becoming the third senator on the 18-member committee to announce his retirement. SASC members John Glenn (D-Ohio) and Dan Coats (R-Ind.) previously announced they would not run for re-election. Kempthorne said he would seek to run for governor of Idaho. "I guess it's fair to say we never caught Potomac fever," he said at a news conference in Boise.
Star Mountain Inc., Alexandria, Va., said it acquired the Systems Effectiveness Div. of Essex Corp. Terms were not disclosed. The division, which recorded sales of about $6 million last year, specializes in human engineering, test and evaluation, logistics and training services, including the testing of night vision and other personnel protective equipment for U.S. Army helicopter pilots and crew and training personnel abroad how to deal with unexploded land mines.
Gerald C. Dodds has been appointed president and chief operting officer. John Hannon, a founder and president of Pulse Engineering since 1981, will now serve as chief executive officer and chairman.
Kathie Thomas-Keprta, principal scientist, Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems and Services, Houston, Tex. received a Women in Aerospace Outstanding Achievement Award for her work as a key member of the research team which discovered evidence that suggests primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago.
Richard Bradley has been appointed vice president, public sector. John Hanby has been appointed vice president, sales. James Weaver has been appointed vice president, sales and marketing.
Singapore has purchased a batch of man-portable Igla surface-to-air missile from Russia, according to the Russian business newspaper Kommersant-Daily. The sale marks the first buy of Russian armaments by Singapore. The Igla portable SAM (designated SA-16 by NATO) was developed by the Design Bureau of Machine-building, of Kolomna, Moscow region. It has an infrared homing sensor and is reportedly capable of intercepting targets at ranges from 0.5 to 5.2 kilometers and at altitudes from 10 meters to 3.5 kilometers.
Michael Javery has been named director of manufacturing and test in New Orleans, La. Randall A. Tassin has been named vice president for Reusable Launch Systems in New Orleans, La.
Editor's note. Following is an excerpt from the executive summary of "Air and Space Power in the New Millennium," a 172-page book edited by Daniel Goure and Christopher M. Szara, and published by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, in cooperation with VII Inc.
Dennis D. Freeman has been named executive vice president . Jerry R. Kukulka has been named vice president of operations. David R. Lillington has been appointed vice president of technology. Paul K. Ballew becomes chief financial officer and continues as a member of the office of the president. Spectrolab Inc. is a unit of Hughes Electronics Corporation.
