Paulo Penido Marques has become CFO of Brazil-based Embraer. He succeeds Cynthia Marcondes Ferreira Benedetto, who is leaving the company. Marques has worked for Citibank, BankBoston, J.P. Morgan and Brazilian industries Usiminas, Cosipa and CSN.
Ralph Eisenschmid, Omar Matar, Steve Wilks and Mohamed Juman (see photos) are among key management appointments at Mena Aerospace Enterprises of Bahrain. Eisenschmid has been promoted to CEO from chief operating officer and acting CEO. Matar is the new general manager after retiring from 31 years with Gulf Air, where he was head of inflight services. Wilks has become general manager of MAE Aircraft Management, Mena's airline division. He was head of operations at an Indonesian airline. Juman is the new managing director of Mena.
Meredith Siegfried (see photo) has been elected to succeed Bill Peacher as CEO of Nordam, Tulsa, Okla. Peacher will remain as a board member and financial consultant.
Rafael Echevarne is expected to become director of economics and program development for Montreal-based Airports Council International in September. He will succeed Andreas Schimm, who will remain in Europe. Echevarne was director of his own airport economics and management consultancy and worked for Ferrovial, Copenhagen Airports, Abu Dhabi Airports Co. and Airways Corp. of New Zealand.
Rob Wigington (see photo) has joined the Metropolitan Nashville (Tenn.) Airport Authority as VP and chief operating officer, succeeding Monty Burgess, who retired in June. Wigington was deputy director of the Houston Airport System.
Rudy Quevedo has been appointed deputy director of technical programs at the Flight Safety Foundation, Alexandria, Va. He was director of safety at North American Airlines.
Janet G. Figone has been named manager of customer service at the Los Alamitos, Calif., facility of the Timken Co., Canton, Ohio. She was director of customer service for a power management technology company.
Stephan Krenz (see photo) has become senior VP and general manager of Switzerland-based Jet Aviation Basel. He was president of Bombardier's Germany and Scandinavia business unit.
George A. Williams has been appointed director of human resources at Tampa (Fla.) International Airport. He held the same position for Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa.
Tom Lieser has been named manager of Lincoln, Neb.-based Duncan Aviation's avionics satellite facility in St. Paul, Minn. A Duncan Aviation employee since 2003, Lieser was crew leader of the company's avionics satellite shop in Chicago.
Dennis Hildreth has been appointed manager-original equipment manufacturer sales at Aircell, Broomfield, Colo. He joins Aircell from Rockwell Collins, where he was principal marketing manager.
Paul Gregorowitch has been named chief commercial officer at Air Berlin. He was head of operations for Dutch airline Martinair, where he will be succeeded by Diedrick Pen.
Larry Dean has joined CRS Jet Spares, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as Western U.S. sales manager. He was a member of the Atlantic Aviation, Jet Aviation and International Jet sales teams for aircraft management and charter services.
Jane Jurgensen has been named VP-business development at Mesa, Ariz.-based Aero-Zone. She was account director for civil customer management at GE Aviation Systems.
USAF Brig. Gen. Jack Weinstein is among six of his rank to be selected for promotion to major general. Weinstein is deputy director of programs for the deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs at USAF Headquarters at the Pentagon. Others are: Robert E. Wheeler, deputy director of nuclear operations at U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters, Offutt AFB, Neb.; Martin Whelan, director of nuclear support at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Va.; Stephen W.
USAF Brig. Gen. Jack Weinstein is among six of his rank to be selected for promotion to major general. Weinstein is deputy director of programs for the deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and programs at USAF Headquarters at the Pentagon. Others are: Robert E. Wheeler, deputy director of nuclear operations at U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters, Offutt AFB, Neb.; Martin Whelan, director of nuclear support at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Va.; Stephen W.
As defense budget cutbacks in the U.S. and Europe begin to bite into corporate sales and profits, military contractors have a choice of two paths. They can seek new avenues of growth by making acquisitions and selling their technologies into other markets. Or they can become smaller but more focused by spinning off underperforming business units.
Six weeks after a TP400D turboprop gearbox failure, the Airbus Military A400M airlifter program is still being impacted by the setback that has begun to erode the schedule margin the program had accumulated. Europrop International has not yet identified the root case for an inflight pinion failure. Also, Airbus has been forced to cannibalize engines intended for aircraft yet to join the flight-test program, to keep the four A400Ms now in trials flying. An industry official says several sorties have been scrapped as a result of the bottleneck.
The French government has finalized its near-term medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft plan, signing an updated proposal from Dassault Aviation to supply the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron-TP for that role. Dassault recently modified its proposal for the Heron-TP, to provide a largely off-the-shelf system. The Heron-TP will replace IAI Herons operating on an interim basis in Afghanistan. France also reaffirms plans to field a new system in 2020, to be developed with the U.K.
Boeing is dropping its delivery expectations for its twin-engine 787 and four-engine 747-8 development programs to a combined 25-30 airplanes, down from its 2011 expectation for up to 40 for both aircraft. The company has not broken down rates for those deliveries, but those for the 787 are expected to be no more than single digits.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on July 27 urged U.S. State and Transportation department officials to file a World Trade Organization complaint against the inclusion of international aviation in the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS). Recognizing that a WTO challenge could take years, and that the ETS goes into effect for airlines on Jan. 1, House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) introduced the “European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act of 2011,” which would bar U.S. airlines from participating in the system.
