Aviation Week & Space Technology

Capt. Emmett Titshaw, an MD-88 pilot for Delta Air Lines and a brigadier general in the Air National Guard, has been appointed commander of the Florida ANG.

Boeing has received an FCC license allowing passengers to transmit and receive broadband data in the air, above the U.S. and territorial waters, using its Connexion inflight Internet, e-mail and TV service. The company is demonstrating the service to private and government aircraft operators in the U.S. and expects to roll out the first airliners equipped for inflight broadband transmissions by early 2003. Lufthansa is the launch customer.

The U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing will issue a request for proposals this month for commercial airborne security patrols to help protect the U.S. unmanned launch operations at Cape Canaveral and NASA shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center. AirScan Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., has already worked under contract flying Cessna Skymasters on Cape surveillance missions coordinated with USAF HH-60 helicopters, primarily on detection of wayward boats that could delay launches.

U.S. Air Force/Lockheed C-141B Starlifter transports have been cleared to return to service after the left wing on one airplane collapsed during refueling last Dec. 21 at Memphis (Tenn.) International Airport. The incident sparked the grounding of all 99 C-141Bs in U.S. Air Force inventory, but the limitation was removed Dec. 23 when an initial inspection by an engineering team from Warner Robbins Air Logistics Center in Georgia determined the failure was limited to that specific airplane. According to Col.

V-22 officials have once again dodged a bullet by convincing top-level Pentagon skeptics to give the tiltrotor another chance to prove itself.

Despite a test failure following a B-2 launch last month, the stealthy joint air-to-surface standoff missile (Jassm) has been approved for low-rate production by the Pentagon, and is expected to be available for operational use in 2003. By combining the missile's 200-mi. range with launch from a stealthy aircraft, Lockheed Martin and Air Force officials contend that Jassm will be able to defeat a new generation of Russian-made air defense missiles that boast a 250-mi. kill range.

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Following its historic pattern, the Airborne Laser is about to undergo another round of funding and schedule changes, this time courtesy of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. BMDO has two major ABL-related activities ongoing. One is to scrub the schedule; the other, to try and add money to the program this fiscal year, which would bolster development efforts.

Chuck Yeager is among the winners of the Arlington, Va.-based Freedom Forum's 2001 Al Neuharth Free Spirit Awards. They are named after the founder of the forum and USA Today. The awards recognize ``the essence of `free spirit': each has achieved great things in his or her own way and none has accepted the status quo.'' Yeager in 1947 was the first person to fly at faster than the speed of sound.

This is a year that will forever be remembered. We began 2001 on a high note, and we end the year unified by our strength and resolve to restore and rebuild.

The Italian defense ministry on Dec. 20 certificated the C-27J Spartan twin turboprop airlifter, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Finmeccanica/Alenia Aerospazio. The manufacturers recently submitted C-27J proposals to Greece and Brazil, officials said late last week.