America's Navy and Marine Corps Airplanes Post-World War I to the Present by Francis H. Dean features photos of most aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy, the Marines and the Coast Guard. It is a photo essay showing the changes in Navy airplane designs over the years. The sections are arranged in alphabetical order by airplane type. Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, Pa. 19310.
Neal B. Freeman has been named the first senior fellow in technology policy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. He is chairman/CEO of the Blackwell Corp. and will remain vice chairman of the center's board of directors.
Angels at Dawn by Lt. Gen. E.M. Flanagan, Jr., tells the story of an actual military rescue by the soldiers of the 111th Airborne Division in World War II. They saved more than 2,000 American civilians from a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. Presidio Press, 505 B San Marin Drive, Suite 300, Novato, Calif. 94945-1340.
Japan's Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries and General Electric are negotiating for IHI to join a team developing the 110,000-lb.-thrust GE90-104B engine. IHI already is an 8.6% shareholder in three other models of the GE90. Boeing says it will need a 110,000-lb.-thrust powerplant to launch ultra-long-haul 777-200X and -300X transports.
Investigators are scouring the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 1420 and the systems from the MD-82 for any evidence of a mechanical failure that could explain why the aircraft veered out of control and crashed off the end of a Little Rock, Ark., runway.
Douglas B. Johnson has been named associate project manager in the Aviation Div. of Burns and McDonnell, Kansas City, Mo. He was assistant director of aviation planning and engineering in the Kansas City Aviation Dept.
The GPS Navigator is lightweight, easy to use and offers a 12-channel hand-held aviation receiver. Using the DataSend CD-ROM, a user can upload to the GPS 315A as many as 20,000 worldwide airports and navigation aids at one time, while tailoring information to specific areas. The software allows users to review selections prior to transfer. Magellan, 960 Overland Court, San Dimas, Calif. 91773.
John C. Laughlin and Matthew B. Salisbury have been appointed managing directors of Bowles Hollowell Conner, Charlotte, N.C. Other recent appointments were: Julie K. Hobby, Robert L. Kriedler, Jr., John W. Pollock, John J. Ross, Claudius E. Watts, 4th, and Christine J. Wright, all directors; and Eric P. Andreozzi, Anthony J. Armstrong, James D. Bray, R. Steven Davis, F. Nicole Dawson, Scott E. Heberton, Michael P. Howley, Todd R. Newman and R. Jordan Smyth, Jr., all vice presidents.
Thomas Karr has become program executive director for Ellipso Inc. of Washington. He was chief operating officer of the RDL Space Corp. Richard R. Burt has been appointed to the board of directors. He is chairman of IEP Advisors Inc. and a former U.S. ambassador to West Germany.
The Model V360 is a single-width, 6U VME module designed to acquire low frequency inputs from industrial sensors to measure speed, frequency or rpm. Configurable differential inputs to eight channels measure pulse periods over a wide dynamic range with 20-nanosec. resolution. The module's programmable noise filtering and direct input connections reduce signal interference and simplify test set-up and monitoring in noisy environments.
Single-engine turboprop cargo carriers would be permitted to operate under night and instrument conditions in Europe, under a proposal now being considered by Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities--a change that would be significant for carriers serving smaller communities.
An exhaustive new Rand appraisal of information warfare says the Pentagon has tended to view new technologies in terms of how they can improve mission capabilities, rather than how they influence decision-making. Titled The Changing Role of Information in Warfare, the Air Force-backed study concludes that cyberwar may be less a matter of missions than a new way of thinking about conflict.
Rodney L. Cusic has been appointed vice president of the Systems Development Center, Jack R. Lambert vice president-resources and services and Russell W. Ford vice president-productions oprations, all at Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems in Fort Worth. Cusic was manager of the VentureStar program at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Palmdale, Calif. Lambert was vice president-human resources for Volvo Trucks North America, Greensboro, N.C., and Ford was vice president-six sigma and quality for AlliedSignal Aircraft Engines.
The U.S. Navy has selected Boeing to continue support for the T-45 training system under a five-year, $650-million contract. The award covers all logistics support for T-45 aircraft and related ground-training systems by Boeing and its team of Rolls-Royce, British Aerospace and Raytheon.
JOSEPH C. ANSELMO; (James R. Asker contributed to this story.)
Space shuttle Discovery concluded the first supply mission to the International Space Station last week as the Russian Space Agency (RSA) raised eyebrows with a new plan to keep the aging Mir in orbit for months without a crew.
THE FAA HAS AWARDED A $180-MILLION, five-year contract for security equipment integration to the Raytheon Co. The contract calls for the company to design, test and install government-furnished security equipment at 400 airports throughout the U.S. Among the top priorities will be X-ray and trace-detection equipment for explosives. The effort follows two years in which Raytheon installed security equipment at 54 sites.
U.S. Navy pilots have started putting the first batch of production F/A-18E/Fs through operational evaluation. The effort, to ensure that specifications actually meet the needs of fleet pilots, is expected to last six months and will be conducted by Air Test and Evaluation Sqdn. Nine (VX-9) at the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake, Calif. Five aircraft are available and two more will soon join the unit for a total of three single-seat E-models and four two-seat F-models. They are slated to fly a test schedule of more than 700 sorties.
Pratt&Whitney's PW6000 relies on proven materials, simplified mechanical systems and advanced aerodynamics to meet the company's plan of developing a low-cost, highly reliable turbofan to satisfy the demanding propulsion requirements of the 100-seat-transport market.
Russia's new plan to leave the Mir space station in orbit for at least half a year without a crew (see p. 32) is generating suspicion on Capitol Hill. Some suspect that Moscow knows leaving Mir without a crew is unsafe and is actually trying to blackmail NASA into coughing up more money so it can keep Mir going and participate in the International Space Station. But a new nonproliferation bill introduced in the House on May 20 could make such a scenario difficult. The Iran Nonproliferation Act of 1999 prohibits the U.S.
SIA Engineering Co., a Singapore Airlines subsidiary, has ordered two Aerospatiale ATEC Series 6 automatic test stations for its parent company's Boeing 777s.
Despite its pilots' June 1998, 10-day walkout, Air France made a $273-million net profit on $9.9 billion in revenues during the 1998-99 fiscal year. The French carrier's traffic slightly increased to 35.6 million passengers and seat-load factor increased to a record 75.5%. An ongoing cost-cutting plan is expected to further boost profitability within the next few years, Chairman/CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta said.
Robert J. Rosenthal has been named president of the Instruments Strategic Business Unit of EG&G Inc., Wellesley, Mass. He was president/CEO of the Thermo Optek Corp., Waltham, Mass.
Data from the U.S.-French TOPEX/Poseidon spacecraft show there is a large area of abnormally cool Pacific Ocean water extending from the Gulf of Alaska along the North American coast to Baja California. Scientists believe the usually slow-developing and long-lasting ocean conditions will influence regional weather patterns along the west coast of the Americas this summer. The TOPEX/Poseidon mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
AlliedSignal Aerospace's commercial transport and business aviation divisions are exploring expanding current ``power-by-the-hour'' maintenance service plan (MSP) concepts. Possibilities include offering ``total maintenance'' and on-site logistics support plans to airlines, according to Lynn Brubaker, vice president and general manager for the company's Air Transport&Regional group.
