Marc Joel Atrero

People Air New Zealand has seconded Warren Gwynne to the Orient Airlines Association headquartered in Manilla. James Armstrong has been appointed AWA International Marketing Manager for electronic warfare products. Vice Admiral Alan Beaumont is to take up the position of Chief of the Defence Force in April 1993 in the rank of Admiral, succeeding General

New Caa Flight Forms Introduced: As a part of its drive to simplify procedures and reduce costs to industry, the CAA has introduced new forms to cover flight notification, flight plans and flight notes. The flight notification form only requires departure point, ETD, route segments, flight level/altitude and time intervals. It reflects the various changes

Nulka’s Future up in the Air?: It is understood that the US Government hasindicated that funding of its share of the joint Australia/US Nulka project will not extend beyond the present full scale engineering development (FSED) stage and that the US NAvy is now unlikely to acquire the system in the short term, should it

Fokker/Dasa Deal Done: Following approval of the takeover of Fokker by Deutsche Aerospace (refer p8 Sept 92 AA), full details of the deal have been released. The agreement is due to take effect this month and sees DASA establish a holding company which will own 51% of Fokker This content is available exclusively to Australian

MDC to Launch MD-12 in 1993: McDonnell Douglas hopes to now officially launch its new four engine twin deck MD-12 during the second half of 1993. While it had initially been anticipated that full scale development of the MD-12 would get underway this year, McDonnell Douglas has been working to further define the aircraft project.

 Proposed Efa Programme Delays: The Eurofighter consortium has proposed delaying delivery of production EFA aircraft by two years to lessen pressures on the troubled programme. The delay proposal is part of a study. currently underway to determine significant cost reduction measures to reduce the aircraft’s programme cost, and would see production EFAs delivered during 2000,