The Interactive Market Access Program Showcase allows U.S. aerospace companies to promote their products and services to overseas customers at international air shows. Information is presented in an interactive format at a kiosk, so show visitors can obtain information on a broad range of products and services. The program also allows for faster transmission of client contact data. IMAP Showcase, U.S. Commerce Dept., 8182 Maryland Ave., Suite 1011, St. Louis, Mo.
Airfreight Industry Review is a report on the changing role of the business' major players--airlines, forwarders and integrators--as the market develops beyond transport into supply chain management. It assesses the issues, considers likely changes in the industry and examines current growth forecasts. The report states that airfreight is growing 2.5 times faster than world gross production. More than a third of the world's trade by value is transported by aircraft. MSAS Cargo International, Ocean House, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1AW, U.K.
FEDEX HAS RECEIVED FINAL APPROVAL from the Civil Aviation Administration of China to take over Evergreen International Airlines' cargo routes into China. The first flight is to originate in New York in early March and follow a route to Chicago, Anchorage, Beijing, Shanghai and then back to New York via Anchorage. The CAAC has approved three destinations in China for FedEx, which now holds the only all-cargo route for a U.S. carrier.
The SATRE-Geo modem is designed for continuous ranging of direct broadcast television satellites without the need for additional transponder bandwidth for the ranging signal. The PN signal can be transmitted via an occupied transponder and can have a strength of 30 dB. below the video signal. Ranging stability is within 5 cm. or less. A single unit can monitor up to four independent receiver signals. Time Tech GmbH., Nobelstrasse 15, D-70569, Stuttgart, Germany.
Western Pacific Airlines turned in larger than expected losses for the fourth quarter of 1995, yet maintained total operating costs at 6.6 cents per available seat mile (ASM). The Colorado Springs-based startup lost $3.011 million in the fourth quarter, compared to a third-quarter net profit of $372,000. A net loss of $10.5 million for the year included $4.8 million in ``pre-operating'' and development costs before the carrier started flying on Apr. 28, 1995.
ECHOSTAR COMMUNICATIONS CORP. paid $52.3 million at a Federal Communications Commission auction to acquire a direct broadcast satellite orbital slot at 148 deg. W. Long. MCI earlier paid $682 million for a slot at 110 deg. W. Long. that allows complete coverage of the continental U.S. (AW&ST Jan. 29, p. 44).
This honing tool can be used with any machine that has a rotary drive, eliminating the need for special-purpose machinery. Honing can be performed to roundness, diameter and eccentricity accuracies of 0.0025 mm. The tool can be taken to any heavy workpiece and driven by a hand-held drill. The tool comprises a mandrel, wedge, a boot with mounted stone, a spring and an adjustment nut. R.M.W.&Sons, Unit 10BR, Bromag Industrial Estate, Witney, Oxfordshire, England OX8 5SR.
The Thrane and Thrane TT-3024A Aeronautical Inmarsat C system permits two-way text messaging and position reporting from an aircraft to its home base from anywhere in the world. The blade antenna functions as both a global positioning system and Inmarsat C antenna, providing interconnection with telex, fax, electronic mail and pack switched data networks. DES encryption for text messages should be available shortly. The TT-3024A is tested to DO-160C requirements. LandSea Systems Inc., 849 Seahawk Circle, Suite 103, Virginia Beach, Va. 23542.
John R. Copple has been named chief executive officer of Space Imaging, Thornton, Colo. He was a vice president of E-Systems Inc. John Neer, who has been president/CEO, will continue as president.
KOREAN INDUSTRIAL GIANT SAMSUNG is busily recruiting U.S. engineers and scientists for multiyear, in-country work contracts. Samsung is looking for experience in low-observable technologies. Among those recruited so far are specialists in stealth shaping, including former B-2 project members, and radar-absorbing coatings. Samsung is telling prospective recruits that South Korea will push hard in the export defense market--everything from small arms to missiles and aircraft.
The Model AVG analog vacuum gauge and AVC analog vacuum controller are designed to provide a continuous analog output signal directly related to vacuum system pressure from 0.001-1 Torr. and 0.01-20 Torr. They operate with Hastings vacuum sensors DV 6 and DV 4. The AVG and AVC can be powered over a range of 12-30 v. d.c. Because they are small, the devices can be located in out-of-the-way locations. The accompanying packaged electronics are independent of the sensing element, which allows quick, easy trouble shooting and component replacement.
To Rise From Earth, An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Spaceflight by Wayne Lee, a space flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, uses photographs and easily understood text to explain the history and technology of spaceflight. It explores the functions and roles of satellites, details the forces and masses that are key to rocket science and explains the logistics of launching a space shuttle. Facts on File Inc., 11 Penn Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10001-2006.
Fu Bao Xin has been named vice president of the Air China Group by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. He was deputy general manager of Ameco-Beijing and remains a member of Ameco's board of directors. Fu's former assistant, Zhang Hong Ying, has been promoted to deputy general manager and will be a board member.
The new Kansai International Airport serving the Osaka/Kobe region will figure prominently in Japan Airlines' efforts to increase productivity by stepping up its service frequency by 3-5% in domestic, international and freighter services. The productivity plan is part of a five-year effort to restore JAL to the consistent profits it enjoyed until the last few years created an accumulated loss of 50 billion yen ($48 million). The losses were the result of high operating costs, overstaffing and the effects of a high yen against a weak dollar.
Aero International Regional is planning to develop an all-new twinjet regional transport, although no program schedule has been determined yet. ``The envisioned aircraft will not be based on Aerospatiale's or Avro's earlier feasibility studies--it will be AIR's first genuine product,'' AIR Chief Executive Officer Henri-Paul Puel said.
MAJOR EUROPEAN AIRLINES posted a 7.6% increase in international passenger traffic in 1995, with the overall load factor exceeding 70% for the first time. The Assn. of European Airlines' 25 scheduled carriers boarded 140 million international passengers last year, an increase of 10 million. Seat capacity grew by 5.7%. Passenger traffic on North Atlantic routes was up 9.1% with a load factor of 76.4%.
Bombardier's Downsview, Ontario, plant has received the first two Global Express wings from Mitsubishi's plant in Nagoya, Japan. Bombardier workers were joining the left and right wing sections with a wing box last week, and planned to complete this assembly by last weekend. Earlier this month, the first cockpit was joined to a forward fuselage in a Montreal factory. The next procedure is to join the horizontal stabilizer with the empennage and then combine all of the major subsections. This work is scheduled for late March.
Robert W. Nelson has been appointed executive vice president of KC Aviation of Dallas. He was general manager of flight services for the Textron Lycoming Div.
U.S. policymakers struggling to provide economic aid and arms reduction incentives to countries such as Russia, Ukraine and China have found another valuable spinoff from the space industry. In a series of recent bilateral agreements, they have turned the industry into a tool for achieving U.S. foreign policy goals by providing these ``non-market economy'' countries with access to more than $1.6 billion in U.S. commercial satellite launch business.
Satellite Link Emulator simulates a full-duplex path between a satellite and a ground transceiver in order to evaluate radio frequency transmission and reception performance of a satellite Earth station under anticipated operating conditions. SLE can be used for performing closed-loop testing to synchronize ground-based processing equipment with that on the satellite. In addition, mobile transceiver manufacturers concerned with multipath fading and system delays can use SLE to perform end-to-end RF system testing. SLE can create Doppler shifts up to 10 MHz.
James R. LaFrieda has been named principal director of the Aerospace Corp.'s regional office in Colorado Springs. He was principal director of cross- program development.
These new surface-mount products are available in a 68-pin package. The EDI8F32128C-BAC is organized in a 128K X 32 package and is based on TSOP static rams mounted on a multilayered epoxy laminate substrate. The EDI7F32128C-BAC and EDI7F32256C-BAC flash modules are organized as 128K X 32 and 256K X 32 packages, respectively. The flash devices are available with access times of 70, 90, 120 and 150 nanosec. and feature 5-v. reprogramming, small sector size reprogramming and greater than 10,000 cycles endurance.
All Nippon Airways has allied itself with the interests of three U.S. airlines in calling for immediate negotiations to expand passenger services between the U.S. and Japan. Seiji Fukatsu, president and chief executive officer of All Nippon, complained that the current bilateral framework governing U.S.-Japan air services discriminates between carriers whose operations were authorized under a 1952 agreement and carriers allowed in under a series of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) beginning in the 1980s.
Another Bronze Medal was presented to a Nesdis team for producing data sets derived from the microwave radiation emitted by the Earth's surface and atmosphere as observed by sensors on military weather satellites. Team members were: Norman J. Grody, Ralph R. Ferraro and David G. Forsyth.
