Canadian Armed Forces Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Lawson is scheduled to become chief of Defense Staff and be promoted to general. He has been deputy commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Lawson will succeed Gen. Walter J. Natynczyk.
Business in China has caused Airbus executives some serious headaches lately, with political wrangling over the European Union Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the crisis at Hong Kong Airlines threatening orders. But now it appears the tide has turned.
William G. Purdy cautioned in 1966 that society was on a path where affluence and regulation threatened to choke off interest in “unorthodox inquiries.”
If Neil Armstrong had written his own obituary, he likely would have said he had been a test pilot, an engineer, an educator and one of the 400,000 Americans who helped land the first humans on the Moon. Less important to him was the combination of experience and lucky career choices that placed him as the first person to reach the surface of a body beyond Earth.
USAF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Ron Ladnier (see photos) has been named director of military business development and Bert Sawyer has been promoted to director of military programs at New York-based FlightSafety International's simulation facility in Tulsa, Okla. Ladnier was director the USAF operations center that synchronized transatlantic shipments to the Middle East with regional transportation. Sawyer has been deputy director of FSI's military simulation programs.
Two of the Philippines' largest business conglomerates are about to do battle in the country's airline industry, and those that get caught in between could be crushed. The domestic market is largely controlled by JG Summit's Cebu Pacific Air and San Miguel Corp.'s Philippine Airlines (PAL). That leaves very little room for Zest Air, AirAsia Philippines and Tiger Airways' Seair Inc.
European Union emission allowance (EUA) prices rose in August, taking support from broad strength in the underlying energy complex. EUAs for December 2012 delivery under the EU Emissions Trading System climbed to €8.20/metric ton ($10.30/mt) Aug. 24, up from €6.97 Aug. 1—a rise of €1.23 or 17.6%.
When a magnitude-5.9 earthquake shook the nation's capital a year ago, the digerati in New York knew about it before the tremblers reached Manhattan, thanks to Twitter and other social media. Now the State Department is trying to tap into that same energy for arms control worldwide. Last week, the government launched a competition in which U.S. citizens could win up to $10,000 by devising a system of using smartphones, cameras and GPS to find out when foreign governments fail to live up to their arms control agreements.
This week, Aviation Week & Space Technology publishes two editions. The articles cited on the far left cover—innovation (p. 56), Neil Armstrong (p. 32) and aerospace in Germany (p. 48)—are in both editions. In that photo, Epner Technology Assistant Quality Manager Adam G. Drew polishes the gold-plated interior of a large chemical-reaction vessel. The Defense Technology Edition contains additional coverage. In its cover photo, the French naval cruise missile MdCN epitomizes the revolution in maritime strike munitions.
House appropriator Frank Wolf (R-Va.) writes NASA Administrator Charles Bolden “urging vigilance” in deciding how many NASA employees should go to Naples, Italy, for the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in early October. Wolf cites a blog report that asserted that NASA was considering sending 50 or more employees to IAC, arguably the biggest annual space conference.
Activation of a third Boeing 787 final assembly line is intended to help ensure a smooth startup of production of the 787-9 as manufacturing rates increase to five aircraft per month by year-end. The 80th 787-8, destined for LAN Airlines, on Aug. 24 became the first fuselage to enter a “surge line” in the 40:24 bay at Boeing's main widebody campus in Everett, Wash. The main 787 assembly hall is the nearby 40:26 bay. The primary alternate line is 88:30 at Boeing's 787 factory in North Charleston, S.C.
USAF Brig. Gen. Balan R. Ayyar has been appointed rule-of-law deputy for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, U.S. Central Command in Kabul. He has been commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service/director of recruiting at Air Education and Training Command Headquarters, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph AFB, Texas,
