Sean McGeough has joined Cleveland-based Nextant Aerospace as president. He was senior executive for the Middle East, Africa and Europe at Hawker Beechcraft.
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While the Chinese city Hefei has a big new airport that it would like to keep busy, aircraft maker Avic has a turboprop airliner plant that is not busy enough. Each of these state entities is making a small contribution to solving the other's problem.
Iranian space officials say their nation's launch and recovery of a live monkey on a suborbital spaceflight advances the goal of an orbital human mission, but that day apparently is more distant than the stated 2020 date. The Iranian Space Agency is said to have used a variant of the Kavoshgar rocket for the 120-km (74-mi.) flight, following a 2011 test that reportedly carried a sealed biocapsule, but no monkey. The 22-meter-long (72-ft.) rocket is believed to have a payload capacity of 50 kg (110 lb.). Israel dismissed the flight as a “publicity stunt,” while a U.S.
The Airbus/EADS advertisement that ran recently in successive issues (AW&ST Dec. 10/17/24, 2012, pp. 4-5) is low-class mudslinging, at best. The fact that Boeing did not respond indicates its management's high business ethics and standards.
The price of EU Allowances (EUA) under the European Union Emissions Trading System crashed to a new low for the December 2013 contract in January after an EU committee rejected a proposal to adjust auction timings to prop up prices. EUAs for delivery in December 2013 collapsed to €3.97 per metric ton ($5.38) at the close on Jan. 29—an all-time low for the contract. That compares with a price as high as €7.40 in December and €9.45 in November.
South Korea's STSAT 2C is operating nominally following the country's first successful launch from its Naro Space Center Jan. 30, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Succeeding on the third try with its two-stage KSLV-1 launcher, South Korea became the 11th nation to orbit its own spacecraft. The satellite will test space hardware and measure radiation levels from its elliptical polar orbit.
Jeff Trauberman, VP-space, intelligence, missile defense and government operations at Boeing, has been elected board chairman of the Washington-based Satellite Industry Association. Other news officers are: Bill Weller, VP-marketing and sales at Space Systems/Loral, vice chairman; and Stacy Fuller, VP-regulatory affairs for DirecTV, treasurer.
I am writing in response to your naming Angela Merkel as your Person of the Year—but citing her as a person of negative influence (AW&ST Jan. 14, p. 44). I was surprised by how little your editorial tried to understand Merkel's viewpoint in the context of the recent global economic problems. The woman is responsible and accountable to 81 million Germans, and arguably many more people throughout Europe.
China has conducted its second ballistic missile interception test, state media report. The target was an intercontinental ballistic missile in the mid-course phase of its flight—after engine shutdown and before reentry. The Jan. 27 test met its goals and was defensive in nature, says the Xinhua news agency.
Scaled Composites' veteran Kevin Mickey has been named president of the Northrop Grumman subsidiary, taking over from Doug Shane, who is assuming a special assignment to focus on completing the Virgin Galactic and Stratolaunch programs. The transition also sees Cory Bird, the current chief engineer on the Stratolaunch effort, become vice president.
As if Indian airlines did not have enough problems already, now they seem to have organized themselves into a circular firing squad. Bleeding red ink, India's private carriers are engaged with debt-ridden Air India in a fierce price war.
Tom Burbage, the single, consistent public face of Lockheed Martin's F-35 program since its inception, is retiring, according to program sources. He retires as the executive vice president and general manager of program integration for the F-35. Burbage was integral to capturing the F-35 business for the company in 2001 and keeping the international coalition behind the the aircraft despite cost and schedule problems. Burbage is the last of Lockheed's original F-35 leadership team to retire.
Jim Blasingame has been appointed senior sales director at Dallas Airmotive in a restructuring of the U.S. sales organization. New territorial directors are Jeff Turner, Western U.S.; Jeff Dunn, Central U.S.; Randy Sasser, Southeast U.S.; and Mike Frazier, Northeast U.S. Mark Russo will become program director-APU products. He was sales director for the Honeywell program.
NASA is casting a wide net as it offers research opportunities aboard the U.S. segment of the International Space Station to small businesses, industry, academia and other governmental agencies for projects with the potential to advance technologies critical to space exploration. Those technologies include in-space propulsion, space power and energy storage, closed-loop life support, thermal control, robotics and telerobotics and automated systems. The deadline is Sept.
A technology that turns computer-aided design (CAD) drawings into tangible hardware has advanced far beyond producing toy rockets and airplanes from plastic as a Science Technology Engineering and Mathmatics hook for schoolchildren. Today advanced versions of what once was called 3-D printing, and now is more commonly termed additive manufacturing (AM), is well on its way to producing large flightworthy components for real rockets and aircraft.
Rebounding quickly from the 2008-09 recession, passenger travel fed a big appetite for new aircraft. By 2010 suppliers were seeing good times ahead as Boeing planned four years of steadily increasing production rates.
With the Aero India show this week at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru, all eyes are on the largest defense importer in the world and a commercial market of vast potential. Among a slew of aerospace and defense purchases that India is making is the Boeing P-8I maritime patrol aircraft—a variant of the U.S. Navy's P-8A. Boeing photo by Leo Dejillas.
