Raytheon Co., Lexington, Mass., has named Peter D'Angelo chief financial officer. Previously vice president/corporate controller, D'Angelo succeeds Sheldon Rutstein, who has retired. Gail Hayes, a former public affairs officer for the U. S. Air Force, has been named manager of media relations for Raytheon's defense electronics business.
California-based Magellan Systems Corp., which has been producing Global Positioning System equipment for five years, is designing and will build a two-way communications handset that will use the Orbcomm satellite network. The device, which will be available next year, will allow users to send and receive messages and data from anywhere in the world within 10 sec. for about the cost of sending a postcard, according to Magellan President Randy D. Hoffman.
Pilkington Aerospace, Inc., Garden Grove, Calif., has named Larry Valenti director of human resources. He was senior director of human resources at Pilkington Barnes Hind.
ALLIANCE, A NEW AFRICAN AIRLINE, is planning startup in early March with service from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, to Entebbe, Uganda, and London, Bombay, Dubai and Johannesburg with Boeing 747-SP aircraft. The new carrier is a joint venture of South African Airways, which holds a 40% share, and the national airlines and governments of Tanzania and Uganda. Each national carrier has a 10% share, and each government 5%. Private investors from the two East African countries hold the remaining 30%.
Grimes Aerospace Co., Columbus, Ohio, has appointed Harry Henderson vice president-customer support. He was director of avionics repair services for AlliedSignal.
Applied Dynamics International, Ann Arbor, Mich., has promoted William O. Grierson (see photo) to vice president-marketing and sales from director of international sales.
ASIA SATELLITE Telecommunications Co. of Hong Kong will wait to launch its AsiaSat 2 spacecraft, a Martin Marietta Astro Space 7000 series satellite, following the loss last September of AT&T's Telstar 402, another 7000 series bird. The launch, on a China Great Wall Industry Corp. Long March 2E booster, has been postponed until June. AsiaSat Chief Executive Peter Jackson said the company wants to see Martin Marietta's full report on the Telstar 402 failure before proceeding. The report is due later this month.
AIR TRANSPORT ASSN. LOBBYISTS ARE ACCELERATING what may be a futile drive on Capitol Hill to head off a 4.3 cent/gal. tax on aviation jet fuel, scheduled to take effect Oct. 31. The ATA, which represents most major U.S. airlines, claims the fee is too burdensome to bear for an industry reeling from four years of huge financial losses. Had the tax been in effect in 1994, lobbyists say, it would have wiped out the minuscule profits airlines eked out last year. The Republican-controlled Congress should be sympathetic, given the GOP's ideological animus against taxes.
BG AeroStructures, Inc., Wichita, Kan., has appointed Alfred C. Wilkinson vice president-manufacturing, overhaul and repair. He was director of rework production with Aviall.
U.S. regional airlines plan to resume flying Avions Transport de RegionaleATR42/72s on northern routes following issuance of an FAA airworthiness directive that permits operation in icing conditions except for freezing rain or drizzle.
Elcon Products International Co., Fremont, Calif., has appointed Stan Sharp engineering manager. He was manager of new technology development at Foxcom International.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena has vowed to act swiftly on a bevy of key airline safety initiatives aimed at reaching a zero accident rate for the industry. He challenged airline officials to ``elevate margins of safety, and anticipate rather than react'' to safety problems before they can happen. The U.S. airline industry must abandon its mindset that ``every once in a while we have an accident'' and embrace new efforts to reach a zero accident rate, which the public has come to expect, he said.
JAPAN'S SPACE AGENCY has rescheduled the third flight of its H-2 heavy-lift booster for Feb. 22. The window runs from 5:10-7:30 p.m. The vehicle will carry two payloads: Japan's Space Flier Unit (SFU) and the Geostationary Meteorological Satellite-5 (GMS-5). The launch was postponed from Feb. 1 because of a leak in the SFU's attitude control system. The fault was traced to a 2-mm. crack in a welded piece of tubing. The launch will take place from Tanegashima Space Center.
Europe will undertake its most ambitious spaceflight operations ever in 1995 and is about to make critical decisions on $6.5 billion in ESA funding that will define its role on the international space station and advanced launcher programs. At least 10 large European-built spacecraft and an ambitious manned flight will be launched, the Ariane 5 will fly its first mission, and commercial Ariane 4s are to lift off 10 or 11 times during the year.
A BIT OF women-in-aviation history will ride with USAF Lt. Col. Eileen Marie Collins, NASA's first female shuttle pilot, on Mission 63 next month. Collins, Discovery's copilot, will carry a scarf that belonged to Amelia Earhart, WASP wings and the Jan. 21, 1929, Federation Aeronautique Internationale certificate issued to Bobbi Trout after she set a women's flight endurance record of 17 hr. 11 min. The FAI certificate bears the signature of Orville Wright. Now an octogenarian, Trout plans to attend the Feb. 2 launch to cheer Collins on.
Teledesic Corp., Kirkland, Wash., has named Larry Williams director of external affairs based in Washington, D.C. He was an executive in the U.S. Commerce Dept. National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Inmarsat has appointed Caroline Chalumeau director of corporate communications. She was director of communications for Telesystemes, a subsidiary of France Telecom.
AVIATION WEEK&SPACE TECHNOLOGY will sponsor a two-day ``Aviation/Aerospace: Requisites for the 21st Century'' seminar during the 1995 Paris air show. The seminar will be on the mornings of June 12 and 13, the first two trade days of the show, and will be in a conference hall adjacent to the press center. Show management has sanctioned the event. Registration is limited to 200 people. Registrants will be transported from downtown Paris hotels to the show on each of the two mornings. A continental breakfast and coffee break will be provided.
Paradigm Technology, Inc., San Jose, Calif., has named H.W. Chen staff scientist. He was process development manager. J.L. DeJong has been promoted to director of product and test engineering from manager of device technology.
THE U.S. IS SENDING a force of 2,600 Marines, backed by AC-130 gunships, AV-8B Harriers and AH-1 Cobra helicopters, early next month to help evacuate U.N. peacekeeping forces in Somalia where inter-clan fighting has intensified. In addition to covering the withdrawal of the roughly 9,000 Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Egyptian and other U.N. troops, the Marines will also recover aircraft and equipment U.S. forces left behind when they pulled out of the country last year.
NEARLY 1,000 SPACECRAFT are proposed for launch in the next decade, according to a study by the Teal Group Corp. The Fairfax, Va., defense and aerospace analysts identified 949 spacecraft that have been booked for launch from 1995-2004, received funding or merely been publicly announced. Communications satellites make up 68%, and the bulk of those will be for mobile services. Lockheed leads the list of satellite builders, with 126 spacecraft on the list, followed by Russia's NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki, formerly known as the Applied Mechanics Design Bureau, with 79.
Martin Marietta Astronautics of Denver, has appointed John Parker (see photo) director of mission success and product assurance. Previously director of production operations, he succeeds Nicholas J. Van Dewerker, who is retiring.
