Israel's defense ministry says it carried out a successful flight test of the Arrow 3 missile interceptor. The test was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. The interceptor was launched into space Feb. 25 at around 6 a.m. local time from a coastal military launching pad in central Israel and flew for more than 6 min.
Avionics manufacturer Rockwell Collins says its win for the rudder and brake pedal assembly for the Airbus A350 marks the “most content” the company has provided by value and part number for an Airbus platform. Combined with previous A350 contracts for the communications, information management and landing/navigation systems, the Iowa-based company says it has the potential to earn $2.5 billion on the program.
Boeing is ready to begin higher-altitude, longer-endurance flights of its private-venture Phantom Eye hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft after a redesigned main landing gear passed the test on the vehicle's Feb. 25 second flight, at Edwards AFB, Calif. The aircraft was damaged on its June 1, 2012, first flight when the skid gear dug into the lakebed on landing. The gear bay is concealed behind Mylar film for takeoff and in flight, to reduce drag, and the gear leg must cut through the film to deploy. The redesign repositioned the Mylar cutter.
Kenneth Asbury has joined Washington-based CACI International as CEO and president, replacing Dan Allen. Asbury was president and CEO of ASRC Federal and a Lockheed Martin Corp. executive.
Swedish authorities have begun certification trials on two virtual control towers and a remote tower center in Sweden after the Saab-built system passed its acceptance tests in February. The r-TWR system, funded by Sweden's air navigation service provider, LFV, consists of one virtual tower and a remote tower center at the single-runway Sundsvall Airport on the east coast of the country, and a second virtual tower at the single-runway Ornskoldsvik Airport, 100 mi. to the northeast.
Mark Millam has been appointed managing director for safety at Washington-based Airlines for America. He was director of safety and compliance at Compass Airlines.
Size can matter when it comes to prizes and, for one of last remaining competitions for human endeavor in flight, a significant boost in the purse has spurred a neck-and-neck race for the finish line. By the time these words are read, one of the longest-standing prizes in aviation could have been won, with two teams vying for the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International's $250,000 Sikorsky Prize for a human-powered helicopter.
Andrew Hauptrich has joined San Jose, Calif.-based TWC Aviation's Private Jet Charter Services as director of business development. He held a similar role at NetJets.
Andrew D. Peters has been named senior VP and chief safety officer at Los Angeles-based Aecom Technology Corp.'s New York office. He was VP of SH&E at Parsons Corp.
Solving a problem for NASA carries a cachet that ensures there is a strong response whenever the space agency posts a challenge to any of the online communities it uses to crowd-source new ideas.
The penalty that everyone said was too painful to occur is now happening, with Congress's failure to pass a deal to prevent nearly $1 trillion in government spending cuts over a decade. Now the question is how long the pain will last.
The White House is adopting a tough public relations campaign against China and other online hackers believed to be carrying out what has been described as the greatest theft of intellectual property in history. On Feb.
More than two decades have passed since the last commercial helicopter was built in the U.K., but civil rotorcraft production could be on the verge of a comeback. While the last flirtations with the commercial sector—in the 1980s by what was then Westland were not especially successful—AgustaWestland, the helicopter manufacturing arm of Italy's Finmeccanica, believes it is time for its Yeovil-based U.K. subsidiary to reembrace the commercial world.
Beechcraft and BAE Systems have undertaken the first flight of a specially modified BAe 146 transport aircraft for the U.K. Royal Air Force. The U.K. Defense Ministry purchased two ex-TNT Airlines BAe 146-200QTs in early 2012 as part of an urgent operational requirement to support and boost passenger and cargo transport capability in Afghanistan. The aircraft were delivered to BAE and Beechcraft Global Customer Support under a £15.5 million ($24.3 million) deal.
March 4—SpeedNews Third Annual Aerospace Raw Materials & Manufacturers Supply Chain Conference. Also, March 4-6—SpeedNews 27th Annual Commercial Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference. Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, Calif. See www.speednews.com/ConferenceInfo.aspx?conferenceID=21 March 12-14—ATC Global Amsterdam 2013. RAI Exhibition & Congress Center. See www.atcglobalhub.com/events March 12-13—Second Annual California Aerospace Week. Sacramento. See https://www.aiaa.org/CAAerospaceWeek2013/
Jeffrey N. Shane has been named general counsel of Geneva-based International Air Transport Association, effective April 2. He has been a partner in Hogan Lovells US since 2008 and was U.S. undersecretary of transportation for policy.
