Jack Brooks has been named sales manager for aircraft maintenance and modification for Jet Aviation International, West Palm Beach, Fla. He was manager of corporate sales for maintenance and modification for Page Avjet.
FRANCE'S TRANSPORT MINISTRY IS CONSIDERING the merits of a third airport, expected to be completed in the next 15-20 years, to add air capacity for Paris and address complaints about traffic and noise levels at the city's two major airports. Last year, the government restricted Orly to 250,000 aircraft movements a year, a decision tied to growing environmental complaints. The Paris airports authority will be authorized to construct two additional runways at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle, despite local residents' strong opposition.
U.S. Air Force pilots are flying the SR-71 again, and attention should be focused on what to do with the Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft now that one crew and airplane are mission capable. The SR-71 should be part of joint-service tactical exercises, both to demonstrate its capabilities in this area to field commanders and to uncover flaws in organizational structure and technical systems.
NATO fighter-bomber aircraft dropped 11 laser-guided bombs and fired multiple air-to-ground rockets to destroy a Bosnian Serb command and control bunker Oct. 9 after troops in the facility participated in a ground attack that killed a U.N. soldier.
NASA is offering $1 million grants for highly innovative research projects in hopes of sparking development of ``breakthrough'' technologies for government and commercial space applications. Under the new program, called Advanced Concepts Research Projects, the grants will go to about eight individuals, who will be known as ACRP Fellows.
Brunswick Defense has completed the first powered flight of its Improved Tactical Air-Launched Decoy (ITALD). It was released from an F-4 Phantom over the Pt. Mugu Pacific Missile Test Center, Calif. The decoy missile flew 154 naut. mi. during its 20-min. flight. The ITALD produced an average speed of Mach 0.8 and flew at preplanned altitudes from 17,500 ft. to 1,000 ft. The ITALD is an offshoot of the company's unpowered glider decoy used during Desert Storm to mimic allied warplanes, thus causing Iraqi air defenses to reveal themselves.
Renee Mills (see photo) has been appointed assistant director of operations for American International Airways, Ypsilanti, Mich. She was an air safety investigator and operations group chairman for the National Transportation Safety Board.
Photograph: Military hardware, including aircraft, could be impounded or rendered inoperative by hardening foam or powerful adhesives. A report issued by the Commission on Roles and Missions apparently is providing renewed impetus for developing effective nonlethal weapons and a doctrine for employing them. The document identified four high-priority emerging missions--combating proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; information warfare; peace operations; and operations-other-than-war (OOTW).
BOSNIAN SERB AIR DEFENSES were fooled in NATO raids by the same type of aerial decoys that were used to help take out Iraqi radars and weapons in the Persian Gulf war. Navy A-6s launched Tactical Air Launched Decoys (TALDs) early in the allied strikes to aid in destroying Bosnian Serb radars and surface-to-air missile command-and-control sites. The unpowered decoys mask the real strike force and help saturate SAM radars with more targets than they can handle.
Adm. Huntington Hardisty (USN, Ret.) has been appointed president of Kaman Aerospace International Corp., Bloomfield, Conn. He will continue as a director of the Kaman Corp.
The initial prototype of Japan's FS-X close air support fighter demonstrated smooth handling characteristics during its first flight from Mitsubishi's Nagoya test facilities. Test pilot Yoshiyuki Watanabe, a 43-year-old ex-air force pilot, said the 38-min. flight on Oct. 7 was without difficulty and the aircraft displayed good maneuverability. Watanabe took the supersonic aircraft to an altitude of about 15,000 ft. and a speed of 250 kt.
Barbara Walters-Phillips (see photo) of Winter Park, Fla., has won the Aerospace Education Foundation's 1995 Chris- ta McAuliffe Memorial Award for the influence she has on pupils interested in aerospace. She teaches at Glenridge Middle School and was nominated by the Central Florida Chapter of the Air Force Assn.
Manfred Bischoff, Daimler-Benz Aerospace chairman/chief executive officer, has been elected president of the European Assn. of Aerospace Industries. Serge Dassault, Dassault Aviation chairman/ CEO, is president-elect and is scheduled to succeed Bischoff during the third quarter of 1996.
The restructuring of the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program has gained new support in Congress and the U.S. military, and refocused it on producing a next-generation strike fighter instead of the more limited goal of technology demonstrations. Increased funding and the realization that contractors have well-developed, workable plans for a new family of strike fighter aircraft in fact has sent the services scrambling for new places in line to receive the new aircraft.
L. Craig Smith has been appointed vice president-finance/chief financial officer of Wyle Laboratories Inc., El Segundo, Calif. He was vice president-finance for a Walt Disney Co. subsidiary.
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC. HAS DEMONSTRATED burst extended data-out dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that operate at 66 MHz. The company believes the PC chipsets are the first running DRAMS at that speed. Burst EDO is a lower cost alternative to other high-speed memory techniques, which might require a new bus architecture, a separate die or dedicated test and production equipment, according to the company.
American Airlines will achieve key productivity gains from its cabin crews in return for significant wage increases under a new contract with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. Last week's decision by a three-member panel of arbitrators came after nearly a year of negotiations between the labor union and American. In April, the airline and the union resolved all strike-related issues except the 14 that were settled through binding arbitration.
A RECREATIONAL VEHICLE will be a rolling testbed in research aimed at improving autonomous and externally aided airborne navigation systems. The van will be equipped with a mobile Gravity Gradiometer (GG), which is essentially an elaborate accelerometer array, as well as a Litton inertial navigation system (INS) and multiple-antenna Global Positioning System receiver. Optimally merged Differential Global Positioning System, INS and GG data will be used to evaluate and improve models of the Earth's gravity field, which is not geographically constant.
One-third of Boeing's workforce remained on strike late last week after negotiations for a new contract stalled over job security and medical benefits. No new talks were scheduled. About 75% of the 32,500 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers members at Boeing voted to go on strike. The IAM is Boeing's largest union.
Del Nusbaum has been named a maintenance instructor for Gulfstream aircraft at Aerospace Training International Inc. of Houston. He was a group leader for technical operation, systems and structures for Gulfstream Aerospace, Savannah, Ga.
THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH IS ESTABLISHING a center of excellence for electro-optics (EO) manufacturing technology. Ben Franklin Technology Center of Western Pennsylvania will administer the National Network for Electro-Optics Manufacturing Technology from its Pittsburgh offices. The network consists of 29 corporate, university and government partners. As the U.S. Navy identifies its EO needs, the center will form collaborative teams and help them submit project proposals.
First flight of the Swedish air force SK60 (Saab 105) trainer with new Williams-Rolls FJ44 engines took place on Oct. 6 from Saab airfield at Linkoping, Sweden. Magnus Ljungdahl was at the controls during the 56-min. flight. The new engines, which replace Turbomeca Aubisque RM9s, are expected to extend the life of the aircraft beyond 2010. The 1,855-lb.-thrust FJ44s will give the SK60 improved takeoff, climb and single-engine performance, better fuel efficiency, reduced maintenance costs, and lower noise and emission levels.
Luftwaffe MiG-29 pilots who flew against U.S. Air Force F-16s in exercises last year were able to get the first shot most of the time in close-in encounters using a captive-carry AA-11 Archer and a Russian helmet-mounted sight.
TWENTY-FOUR U.S. MARINE CORPS F/A-18s operating over Bosnia are now equipped with the ALQ-165 airborne self-protection jammer (ASPJ). The remainder of the 95 preproduction ASPJ systems built by ITT and Westinghouse before the program was canceled, under pressure by Sen. David Pryor (D.-Ark.) and Sen. William V. Roth (R.-Del.), will be used to update the electronic warfare capabilities of the F-14D, according to a Navy official.
