Gordon Johnston has been named regional manager of cargo sales for Canada and Peter J. Hansen has been named regional manager of cargo sales for Mexico and Central America by American Airlines Cargo. Johnston was an account manager in Canada, and Hansen was managing director of sales for the business development group.
Brig. Gen. Goh Yong Siang and Wong Woon Liong have been named non-executive members of the board of directors of Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd. They are succeeding Tan Chin Nam, who has retired, and Maj. Gen. Bey Soo Khiang, who has relinquished his post.
Gregory D. Ballentine has been appointed general manager for government marketing/vice president-commercial and government systems for Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y. He was vice president/general manager for national accounts in the Office Imaging Div. He succeeds Leonard E. Redon, who was appointed president/general manager of Kodak's Customer Equipment Services Div.
Richard Briones has been named director of corporate business development for Technology Service Corp. and will be based in Silver Spring, Md. He was manager of California operations.
Faro Technologies' portable coordinate measuring machine (PCMM) gives aircraft technicians involved in inspection, repair, maintenance and manufacturing a flexible and accurate way to check and document dimensions. With six degrees of freedom, the FaroArm PCMM can be taken to the aircraft to gather 3-D digital measurements using a variety of contact or noncontact sensors. A PC can compare the measurements directly with existing computer-aided design, or use the data to develop CAD fabrication drawings to manufacture a replacement object.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN WILL COMBINE GPS and ring laser gyro (RLG) inertial measurement units for the guidance and control of 2000 lb. Mk. 84 bombs. The GPS-Aided Munition program is intended to give the B-2 an interim conventional precision-guided munition capability next year. Honeywell's guidance and control unit will use the company's GG-1308 RLG inertial measurement units and Interstate Electronic Corp.'s GPS receiver.
The Model 792 is a high-capacity compression load cell that provides accurate measurements in harsh environments. The hermetically sealed, canister-type device is available in 50,000, 100,000 and 200,000-lb. capacities and will function over a temperature range of -65-200F. The Model 792 is accurate to within 0.02% of full scale. A stainless steel or dual bridge housing is optional. Revere Transducers, 14192 Franklin Ave., Tustin, Calif. 92680.
A report by India's comptroller and auditor general criticizes Air India's purchase of Airbus A310-300 aircraft, citing fuel consumption levels that resulted in operating losses during their first five years of service. Although a technical subcommittee in January, 1984, had recommended the airline buy ``technically superior'' Boeing 767-200ERs, Air India officials selected the A310-300 primarily because of its anticipated lower fuel consumption and improved route utilization.
The RGP light emitting diode can glow in any color, including white. Applications include instrument backlighting and indicator lights. The T-5-size LED contains four chips--one red, one green and two blue--in a single epoxy package. The chips are individually addressable via six leads. The emitted color is changed by varying the current to each chip. For white light, high power is supplied to the blue chips while red and green power is lower. The LED is available with wide-angle and narrow angle lenses. Lumex Opto/Components Inc., 292 E. Hellen Road, Palatine, Ill.
FISCAL INEQUITY WITHIN THE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP) appears to be worsening as Congress wields the budget axe for Fiscal 1996. With Congress in a cost-cutting mood and the FAA's obligation to fund Letters Of Intent for certain airports (which already account for $350 million in AIP discretionary monies), most state aviation officials expect airport funding to fall below the $1.6-billion level set by a House Appropriations panel for the next fiscal year.
The OMX spray gun is designed for increased worker comfort. The gun weighs 12 oz., versus an industry standard of 22 oz., and features an ergonomically designed grip. The gun has three triggering positions to ease spraying from different angles, including above the workpiece. Trigger force is 1-2 lb. The better design can increase worker efficiency and reduce waste. ITW DeVilbiss Industrial Spray Equipment, 1724 Indian Wood Circle, Maumee, Ohio 43537.
Apollo 2100 Navigation Management Systems are expected to receive C-129 Class A1, B1 and C-115b authorizations for navigation with their GPS sensors from the FAA by the end of this summer. Existing 2100 NMSs can be upgraded at the factory to the new standard, which will allow use of the system for instrument approaches as well as en route and terminal navigation. II Morrow Inc., 2345 Turner Road S.E., Salem, Ore. 97302.
John D. Schumacher and Robert E. Whitehead have been promoted to associate administrators of NASA from deputy associate administrators, Schumacher for the Office of External Relations and Whitehead for the Office of Aeronautics. Michael Christensen has been appointed head of the Office of Operations. He was associate deputy administrator for management.
Successful tests of modified fan platforms have cleared the way for Boeing to resume flight tests of GE90-powered 777s. Boeing and GE stopped flying the two GE90-powered 777 test aircraft in late May after fan unbalance problems surfaced in several GE90 ground tests. GE isolated the problem to the fan's platforms and proposed to solve it by modifying the platforms so their load-carrying ``webs'' are made of aluminum and their ``flanges'' are fabricated from a graphite-epoxy composite.
CESSNA AIRCRAFT AND LOCKHEED Martin have protested the U.S. Air Force selection of Raytheon Aircraft's Beech Mk. 2 as the winner in the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) competition (AW&ST June 26, p. 16). Cessna filed a formal protest with the General Accounting Office on July 7. The Textron Aerospace subsidiary said the Air Force had decided early in the competition to select the lowest cost submission, and should not have stretched the program at the expense of the other competitors. Cessna received its Air Force debrief on July 13.
The Boeing Co.'s decision to table plans for a 747 successor, in cooperation with Europe's Airbus Industrie consortium, sets the stage for the company to pursue alternative strategies (see p. 36).
The Learjet Tip Tank Fuel Storage and Distribution System has been approved under a Supplemental Type Certificate for use on Lear 24, 25, 35 and 36-series business jets. The system utilizes an electric pump, improved fuel pressure and electrical connections and standpipes to counter the problem of fuel from the tip tanks leaking into the main wing tanks of a parked aircraft, leaving the aircraft off balance. More importantly, if an engine should fail in flight the system makes it possible to pump out the 600 lb. of ``unusable'' fuel in the tip tank on that side.
The FAA should abandon its proposed medical standards for pilots. They are unnecessary, unjustified and blatantly age-discriminatory. In addition, more-stringent physical examinations would cost the general aviation sector additional millions of dollars annually without providing any tangible safety benefit.
The XU-2250 is an ultrasonic gated flaw detector with a digital thickness gauge. Applications include general lab use, imaging systems and integration into high-speed automated ultrasonic test systems. Features include a pulse repetition rate of up to 10 KHz., multi-channel systems that can be easily controlled with computer interface and control software, and analog and digital signal processing techniques that provide local data reduction. Xactek Corp., 3704 Stearman Ave., Pasco, Wash. 99301.
Flat Panel Display Journey, The Making of a Display is a 20-min. video that explores how flat panel displays are manufactured. The video addresses both passive and active-matrix liquid crystal displays. Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, 805 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View, Calif. 94043-4080.
