STORK NV's aviation division, along with partners Fokker Services and Perry Group, is considering a plan to renovate F28 aircraft to meet new environment standards, a Stork spokesman said yesterday. "Everything is confirmed, but they are still plans," he told The DAILY in a telephone interview. "The customers have not said yes, but the introduction has been made." Estimates put the cost of each renovation around $9 million. Two hundred of the planes are in service around the world.
GERT SCHYBORGER, president of the defense electronics company Celsius-Tech AB, has been named the new president of Saab Aircraft AB effective March 1, Saab announced. Schyborger succeeds Hans Kruger, who has been appointed president of the Industrigruppen JAS and head of Business Unit Gripen within Saab. Schyborger joined Sperry Univac in 1976 after serving in the Swedish Air Force. He has served as executive vice president of Sperry Univac, president of Univac Norden, president of Ericsson Information Systems, and president of Nokia in Scandinavia.
Milton, Ontario-based Derlan Aerospace Canada has a letter of intent from GE Aircraft Engines worth some $42 million for 600 accessory gearboxes and power take-off assemblies on GE's CF34 regional/business jet engine. Deliveries begin this year and run through 2000.
Pratt&Whitney hopes to build on its late 1996 upset win at Korea's Asiana Airlines, extending its high-bypass turbofan dominance in Asia this year in campaigns in China, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.
Emeryville, Ontario-based Windsor Gear&Drive has started building a line of what it claims are identical-to-original replacement parts for Pratt&Whitney R1340 radial aircraft engines - including crankshafts, camshafts and supercharger and blower gears - at low cost.
Negotiations between Dassault Aviation Chairman Serge Dassault and the French Defense Ministry were expected yesterday to finalize the first major production contract for 48 Rafale multi-role fighters worth $3.24 billion (FF17 billion).
BOEING CO. said it has turned down a Machinists union proposal to retain within Boeing the production of pressurized doors for commercial aircraft. It said it told the union it intends to place production of the doors with outside suppliers to "increase the company's access to key markets and to reduce costs."
The Senate Armed Services Committee is unhappy with the Pentagon's list of candidates for the National Defense Review Panel, with members unimpressed with the names on the list and upset over the lack of consultation, a SASC spokeswoman said yesterday. House National Security Committee Chairman Rep. Floyd Spence (R-S.C.) also has "some problems" with the panel nominees, a committee spokeswoman said Monday. The panel was established in the 1997 defense authorization act to evaluate the findings of the Quadrennial Defense Review.
A stealthy transport still appeals to the U.S. Air Force even though there is no acknowledged program to develop such a plane, according to a senior AF official. "If you explore the range of opportunities and tasking that the military would be involved in, it would certainly be nice to be able to have a method by which we could insert troops and the enemy not know that," Maj. Gen. Gregory Martin, the head of Air Force requirements, told The DAILY in an interview.
CREW MEMBERS aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis began transferring some 6,000 pounds of food, water and equipment from the double-wide Spacehab module in the Shuttle's cargo bay to Russia's Mir orbital station yesterday after the two spacecraft docked late Monday. Astronaut Michael Baker, commander of the STS-81 mission, eased Atlantis onto Mir's docking port at 10:54 p.m. EST.
The U.S. government by Feb. 21 plans to make a controversial assignment of a second civil frequency for the Global Positioning System, according to Frank Kruesi, assistant secretary of transportation policy for the Dept. of Transportation. The civil frequency now in use is designated L-1. Many civil users want a second frequency but are having trouble finding one that can be protected worldwide. The Dept. of Defense uses L-2, but it is not protected outside the U.S.
Edward F. Staiano president and general manager of Motorola's General systems Sector, has been appointed by the company's board of directors to the position of vice president and chief executive officer. Staiano resigned from his position at Motorola on Dec. 31, 1996.
Joel R. Stone has been appointed senior vice president of Organization and Human Resources, reporting to Donald R. Beall, chairman and chief executive officer. Stone succeeds Robert H. Murphy, who announced plans to retire early this year.
Foreign Minister Erik Derycke and Minister of National Defense Jean- Paul Poncelet have decided Belgium will not sell Hawk surface-to-air missiles to Turkey, according to reports from Itar-Tass yesterday. This comes shortly after The Netherlands announced it refused to sell eight Hawk missiles to Turkey.
Col. Rober H. Latiff has been named program director for Electronic Systems Center's Joint Surveillance Target Attach Radar System, (Joint STARS) effective Dec. 6, 1996.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Shalikashvili yesterday signed off on the Joint Strategy Review that is an important building block of the Quadrennial Defense Review. Army Col. Paul Hebert, chief of concepts and strategy for the Joint Staff, said yesterday that he couldn't describe the classified document, but that it was largely in sync with Joint Vision 2010 laid out by Shalikashvili last year.
Brian E. Barents has been elected a member of the board of directors. His election expands the board membership to 15. Barents is president and chief executive officer of Galaxy Aerospace Corp.
The British Ministry of Defense is reviewing a number of U.S. ballistic missile defense programs, but has made no firm decision to cooperate on any of them, an MOD source told The DAILY. Any system that is not a "paper system" is under consideration, including the Theater High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD), Medium Extended Range Area Defense System (MEADS), Arrow and others, the source said.
Congressional staffers are less than enthusiastic about an anticipated Pentagon plan to try to offset a $2 billion fiscal 1997 bill for operations in Bosnia. Rather than laying out precisely what offsets the Pentagon will ask for to pay the amount, one Senate staffer said yesterday, DOD plans to submit a blanket rescission. But it wouldn't include specific cuts, which the Pentagon would add after approval by Congress of the generic package.
