Neil Whiteman (see photos) has been named vice president/senior counsel for the New York-based FlightSafety Services Corp. He has been of counsel in the Washington office of law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and has been associate general counsel of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Tracey Clough has been promoted to director from manager of international teammate resources for FlightSafety International.
Chet Akiri has been appointed senior vice president/chief of corporate development for new ventures/strategy officer for the Houston-based Bristow Group. He was chief operating offcer for General Electric’s Global Nuclear Fuels America, Wilmington, North Carolina.
Jim Sokol has been named president of MRO Services for Timco Aviation Services, Greensboro, North Carolina. He was vice president-maintenance operations for Southwest Airlines.
Nick Hopkinson (see photo) has been appointed London-based director of cyber strategy in the U.K. for the Northrop Grumman Corp. He was head of global internal cyber security for the Computer Sciences Corp.
Dave Bibby has become vice president-engineering of Aspen Avionics Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was chief engineer for Honeywell Aerospace’s Flight Management Systems Center of Excellence.
Janice Starzyk of International Launch Services has been named president of the Washington Space Business Roundtable. She succeeds Stephen Ganote of Avascent.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Southwest Airlines updated its livery for the first time since 2001 as part of a multifaceted brand campaign. A single new logo—a stylized heart—now accompanies all internal and external communications, such as its “Rapid Rewards” frequent-flier program and its new booking website.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev gets his first look at solid ground after 169 days orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). Flight engineer Artemyev, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, also a flight engineer, landed safely in Kazakhstan Sept. 11 in their Soyuz TMA-12M capsule.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Obituary: Noel W. Hinners, a U.S. space scientist who helped explore the Moon, Mars and beyond, died Sept. 5 in Littleton, Colorado. He was 78 and had been suffering from complications of basal cell carcinoma.
A version of this article appears in the September 8 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. The U.K. has decided to retain its second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, reversing plans to mothball it, made in 2010. The decision, which had been expected in the next Strategic Defense and Security Review, in 2015, was announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at the end of the NATO summit in Newport, Wales. Work on the ship is underway at the Rosyth naval dockyard near Edinburgh.
A version of this article appears in the September 8 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Helicopter operator Bristow has accepted the first of 11 Sikorsky S-92 helicopters to be used on an 11-year U.K. government search-and-rescue contract. The Long SAR contract will begin in April 2015 and will see Bristow operate 22 helicopters, 11 S-92s and 11 AgustaWestland AW189s from 10 bases at civilian airports and airfields. They will replace the Sea King helicopters flown by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
