Matthieu Louvot (see photo) has been appointed head of support and services within Eurocopter, Marignane, France. He was an adviser in different French ministries before joining the company.
USAF Lt. Gen. Frank Gorenc has been nominated for promotion to general and assignment as commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe/commander, U.S. Air Forces Africa/commander, Allied Air Command/director, Joint Air Power Competence Center, Ramstein AB, Germany. He has been assistant vice chief of staff and director of the Air Staff at USAF Headquarters at the Pentagon.
“A fighter pilot patrols the area allotted to him in any manner he sees fit. When he sees the enemy, he attacks and kills.” What makes it likely that Manfred von Richthofen really said that is the sentence that follows it: Alles andere ist Unsinn. Anything else is nonsense.
Steve Kisor has been named president in the Americas for London-based Willis Aerospace. He was executive vice president based in Los Angeles. John Rooley has been named Vancouver-based CEO and will remain president/CEO of Willis Aerospace in Canada.
Technicians at Cape Canaveral will spend the next several months preparing the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-3) military communications satellite, after the U.S. Air Force and builder Lockheed Martin Space Systems delivered it on a C-5 Galaxy flying out of Travis AFB, Calif. Launch from Complex 41 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V is scheduled this fall.
A proposed acquisition rule from the Pentagon that is designed to combat counterfeit parts is drawing the U.S. technology industry's ire, according to a statement from its lobby association.
The low-cost carrier phenomenon is transforming the airline industry all over the globe, but it is proving slow to catch on in Japan. The demise of one of Japan's three new LCCs is the clearest sign yet that the challenges they face in this market are larger than they bargained for. However, the stakes are still high enough to keep several major players in the game.
ST Aerospace will provide a range of Boeing 787 nacelle system maintenance, repair and overhaul services based on a long-term agreement signed with UTC Aerospace System.
USN Capt. Andrew L. Lewis, who has been selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half), has been named commander of the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, Fallon, Nev. He has been director of fleet and joint training for U.S. Fleet Forces Command, Norfolk, Va. Capt. Roy J. Kelley, who has been selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half), has been appointed chief of Naval Air Training, Corpus Christi, Texas. He has been chief of staff to the commander of the Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, at San Diego.
Any launch vehicle that flies as often as Russia's Proton is bound to have its share of mishaps. The venerable heavy-lifter has flown 388 missions since its first in 1965, 45 of which have been deemed total or partial failures.
Jim Wasson, President Growth Strategies International (Charleston, S.C.)
A recent Commander's Intent commentary, “Seeing the Big Picture” (AW&ST June 17, p. 22) caught my attention because I worked with Gene Adam at McDonnell Douglas for years and witnessed the 3-in. stack of Vu-Foils he went through at an amazing pace while holding everyone's undivided attention. Gene was truly a visionary whose technology forecasts are today becoming a reality.
Adding to London's Heathrow Airport is the most cost-effective way of delivering extra capacity to the capital's busiest but most constrained airport, its owners are asserting. In the next fortnight, airport managers will deliver evidence to the U.K. Airports Commission outlining their ambitions to expand the Heathrow site.
House and Senate lawmakers, though nearly $1 billion apart on their recommended fiscal 2014 FAA budget, do agree on some priorities, including support for the transition to an unleaded aviation gasoline and funding for FAA's certification and inspection workforce. Despite making cuts below sequestration levels in the parent transportation appropriations bill for fiscal 2014 that includes FAA's budget, the House is recommending an increase in funding for alternative-fuels research.
A new inspector general report that found Afghan air forces to be woefully unprepared is recommending halting two related U.S. aircraft acquisitions. The announcement could not have come at a worse time for the Pentagon and White House. The Pentagon and the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) are pushing forward with the sale of 30 Mi-17s from Rosoboronexport and 18 Pilatus PC-12s via Sierra Nevada under contracts worth nearly $772 million.
Mark Brewer, director of the Manchester (N.H.)-Boston Regional Airport, has been elected chair of the Alexandria, Va.-based American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) for 2013-14.
How does a squadron charged with testing navigation and guidance systems in extreme jamming know where its aircraft and weapons are and how they are performing when GPS is jammed? The answer from next year on will be by using a local positioning system that has the potential to back up GPS wherever jamming or spoofing could have disastrous results, such as critical infrastructure, airports or guiding unmanned aircraft in civil airspace.
Heidi Wood has been named senior vice president-strategy and Duane Hawkins senior vice president-operations of Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems. Wood was managing director for global aerospace/defense analysis for Morgan Stanley. Hawkins was vice president and deputy for air warfare systems for Raytheon Missile Systems. He also been an executive for Defense Research Inc. and General Dynamics.
Business was booming for Raytheon at the recent Paris air show. The defense electronics giant's “hospitality chalet”—a two-story structure set up for VIP meetings—was packed with prospective buyers from places such as Oman, Qatar and Japan. “This is the busiest I have ever been at an air show,” proclaimed CEO Bill Swanson, who is aiming to raise exports to 30% of Raytheon's sales, up from an impressive 26%.
Brian K. Miller (see photo) has been appointed product sales manager for the aerospace maintenance, repair and overhaul business of the Timlen Co., Canton, Ohio.
