Oksana Bardygula has been appointed vice president-business development for Textura's aerospace and aviation practice in Southern California. She was a junior partner in the aviation practice at Mercer Management Consulting.
After nearly a decade of development and restructuring, Lockheed Martin has finally received the go-ahead from the Missile Defense Agency to begin producing the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system. The $619-million contract includes two Thaad fire units, 48 interceptors, six launchers and two fire control and communications elements. Delivery is scheduled for 2009.
The U.S. Navy oceanographic ship Mary Sears is helping Indonesian accident investigators locate the Adam Air Boeing 737-400 that vanished Jan. 1 from radar screens. Despite knowing the last known coordinates of the aircraft, searchers as of Jan. 10 had not yet located wreckage.
Delivery of six aircraft last month confirmed that European turboprop-maker ATR met its target to ramp up production. The EADS/Finmeccanica joint venture has been bolstered by a surge in orders resulting from high fuel prices that have made the turboprops more attractive than their small regional jet rivals. The close-out deliveries included an ATR 42-500 to Pakistan International Airlines and one to Finncomm Airlines. Two ATR 72-500s went to Kingfisher Airlines, while Air Caraïbes and Air Deccan received one each.
Larry B. Lehmann entered the U.S. Air Force in 1966, served in Vietnam, and is still involved in a 40-years-and-counting aviation career. He has done it all--repairing, flying, selling and recruiting. "Aviation is my love, second only to my faith and family," he says.
Goodrich Corp. announced Jan. 9 that it has been contracted by EADS unit Airbus to provide nacelle and thrust reverser systems for all versions of the European manufacturer's recently launched A350XWB. According to Goodrich, the contract is expected to generate about $10 billion in original equipment, service and spare part revenues over 20 years. The company's main competitor in this market is Aircelle, part of French group Safran.
Air Force Aerospatiale SA316B (32) Aerospatiale SA365 (6) Antonov An-32 (94) Boeing 737-200 (3) British Aerospace HS 748-100 (64) Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000H (38) Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000TH (11) Embraer ECJ-135 Legacy (5) English Electric B(I) MK 58 (3) English Electric PR Mk 57 (2) English Electric T Mk 54 (2) Gulfstream G-III (3) HAL Dhruv (16) HAL Do 228-201 (28) HAL HJT-16 (85)
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NASA will trim from the bottom to accommodate a half-billion-dollar hole in its expected funding this year, halting or shrinking low-priority programs to keep top-dollar efforts like the Orion crew exploration vehicle and International Space Station assembly on track. With scant hope for a loophole in the year-long continuing resolution ordered by the new appropriations chairmen in the Democratic 110th Congress, Administrator Michael Griffin says his choices are clear.
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Lufthansa has set a new company record for passenger volume, reaching 53.4 million travelers in 2006. Volume grew 2% on a 1.8% increase in capacity, with a load factor of 75.2%. Meanwhile, Lufthansa Cargo upped its freight total by 1.3%.
The FAA has proposed rules requiring that security-related features be incorporated in the design of new aircraft. Provisions include extending cockpit-door strengthening standards adopted in 2002 to bulkheads and any other flight-crew compartment barriers a terrorist might be able to attack; limiting penetration of smoke or fumes into the flight-crew compartment and exhausting them from the passenger cabin; and adding fire suppression capabilities to cargo compartments.
Sherri Shamblin has been promoted to vice president from managing director for inflight services for US Airways. She succeeds Ron Cole, who will retire.
