Brent S. Shiner, manager of the Hayward (Calif.) Executive Airport, has received the National Air Transportation Assn. Airport Executive Partnership Award. It honors efforts to foster relationships between aviation businesses and airports.
Tony Tayeh has become head of planning and international and industry affairs for Dubai-based Emirates. He succeeds George Rickabaugh, who has retired as senior general manager for planning.
Pat Gaines has been named managing director of flight training for FlightSafety Boeing Training International of Seattle. Three other managing directors were named: Kevin Higman, training development; Jonathan Kniss, maintenance training; and Jon Pollack, Boeing Business Jet training.
AdaMULTI software development tools are being used by FlightSafety International to build flight simulators for the U.S. military. The tools provide full cockpit capability, encompassing flight, control loading, navigation, powerplant and aircraft systems. The software runs on a Pentium-based embedded PC under the VxWorks real-time operating system. It features an Ada 95 optimizing compiler, source-level debugger and graphical program builder.
SPACE ELECTRONICS OF SAN DIEGO HAS RECEIVED its second patent for plastic radiation-shielded microelectronics, which were developed under a small business innovative research grant from NASA Marshall. The company developed packaging, coating and encapsulation to protect advanced commercial microelectronics in space and technology to limit the current from single-event latchups. Many commercial ICs are only available in plastic encapsulation, and need shielding from radiation in space and from moisture and contaminant intrusion on Earth.
The TPC 2234 RackPower is an auto-switching power distribution system. It is a secondary source in case of computer power loss on the primary source. The standard units are UL/cUL 1950 3rd edition approved and are available with EMI/RFI filtering, spike/surge suppression and overload circuit protection. Pulizzi Engineering Inc., 3200 S. Susan St., Santa Ana, Calif. 92704-6865.
Somewhat embarrassed by the slowness of spinning up ground operations for the Kosovo conflict, senior Army officials say they are preparing to introduce a new, fast-reaction force. ``The brigades of the division appear to us to be the venue of the future as the backbone of our capability for close combat,'' said Gen. John Abrams, chief of the Army's training and doctrine command, who was in town last week. ``We can pull a brigade now . . . without pulling anything else,'' such as the traditionally large logistics and supply tail.
RTVS 27 is a low-viscosity UL-94V-0 flame retardant, general purpose, reversion resistant room temperature vulcanization silicone. It has the ability to cure at temperatures up to 120C, while combining low temperature flexibililty, electrical properties, high temperature resistance (+204C) and easy removal for component replacement or repair. Insulcast, 565 Eagle Rock Ave., Roseland, N.J. 07068.
Belgium's Barco Display Systems has been selected by Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems to supply color flat panel displays for the P-3C aircraft upgrade program. Five Barco RFD251 displays will be installed on each P-3C.
UniCapital Air Group Inc., a subsidiary of UniCapital Corp., last week acquired 27 narrow-body and nine wide-body commercial aircraft valued at about $1.32 billion from GE Capital Aviation Services.
Japan's Mega Float Technology Research Union, a partnership between major steel and shipbuilding companies, expects to complete assembly of a 1,020-meter long X 60-meter wide X 3-meter high (3,346 X 197 X 10-ft.) experimental floating runway in July. The 11.4-billion-yen ($95-million) structure is being built 300 meters off the Yokosuka seaport south of Tokyo. Japan's Transport Ministry has considered floating runways as an alternative to manmade islands for a number of airport projects, but high costs have always been an inhibitor.
In the post-Cold War era, it is easy for the U.S. to assume it has no immediate threat to its preeminence in space. It has adopted its former rival, Russia, as a junior partner in manned space flight. It has the largest share of the world's satellite business. It has gained on Europe's Arianespace in the launch sector. And no other nation approaches its military space capabilities. There is a threat, though, but it comes from within. On almost every front--hardware, procedures, policy--there are serious problems.
PCX-9 Quiet Steel is a sound-damping, constrained-layer material intended for a range of applications. PCX-9 consists of metal outer skins and a 0.001-in. thick viscoelastic polymer core. It may be fabricated using steel, stainless steel or aluminum, and is normally supplied in coil form. MSC Laminates and Composites Inc., 2300 E. Pratt Blvd., Elk Grove Village, Ill. 60007.
MSC/FlightLoads&Dynamics has been used by airframe manufacturers in North and South America and Europe since it was released in late December. The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. is now focusing its attention on working with customers to develop custom toolkits that will allow them to use proprietary codes with FlightLoads off-the-shelf visualization capabilities, said Mark B. Kenyon, MSC's director of aerospace business development. ``We see it as a strategic part of our business,'' he added.
MC Associates Inc. (MCA), which specialized in military wargaming and dynamic planning, has merged with Whitney, Bradley&Brown Inc. (WBB), a Vienna, Va.-based consulting and technical services firm (AW&ST Nov. 2, 1998, p. 64). As part of the merger, a new WBB Rocky Mountain office in Colorado Springs will be headed by Michael J. Coumatos, the founder of MCA.
Northrop Grumman has withdrawn its complaint about the Discoverer 2 satellite ground surveillance radar contract. USAF awarded TRW the contract for Discoverer 2 development, but Northrop Grumman filed a protest with the General Accounting Office. Northrop's decision to halt its protest allows TRW to begin developing the satellite system.
Graham W. Atkinson has been appointed to the board of directors of Galileo International Inc., Rosemont, Ill. He is London-based vice president-Atlantic for United Airlines and succeeds James E. Goodwin as the United representative on the Galileo board.
Barely months after moving a satellite over the North Atlantic to allow North American service offerings to be made available to its European customers, Eutelsat already is planning to expand this Atlantic gateway.
Citing disappointing profits, Air Canada will defer delivery of two Airbus A330 transports and park nine of its DC-9s, according to Lamar Durrett, president and CEO. The Montreal-based airline also plans to increase service to the U.S., specifically to Denver, Chicago and Washington. All three cities are hubs for Air Canada's Star Alliance partner, United Airlines.
Japan's aerospace industry logged record sales in 1998 despite decreasing defense demand. The Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies (SJAC) said the industry had a combined 977.3 billion yen ($8.3 billion) in 1998 revenues, up 3.9% from the previous year. At $4.5 billion, overall defense spending was off 9% and domestic civil aerospace revenues of $805 million were off nearly 10% as well. But export orders were up nearly 38% to $2.9 billion.
Lufthansa Technik has selected Collins Aviation Services to maintain the avionics on Lufthansa Cityline's fleet of Canadair Regional Jets, under a five-year contract.
FAA Administrator Jane F. Garvey will ask RTCA Inc. to form an industry/government panel to analyze aircraft safety, including performance-data collection requirements and the technology to meet them. Garvey will cochair the panel with Jim Hall, head of the National Transportation Safety Board, which is promoting greater use of data recorders in all transportation modes to bolster accident prevention. Garvey says the FAA will act soon on board recommendations to upgrade flight data recorders on Boeing 737s by Aug. 4, 2001, at the latest.
Dennis R. Hanlon has become executive vice president/general manager of the Penetone Corp., Tenafly, N.J. He was president of DRH International and Marketing Insights.
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems tested its Silent Sentry passive air surveillance system in realistic conditions at the All Service Combat Identification Evaluation Team (ASCIET) exercise at Ft. Stewart, Ga., in March. The system ran in real time during the 10-day exercise, and its performance was validated, said Lorraine Martin, the company's director of command and control technology programs.
