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People The CAA has appointed Buck Brooksbank General Manager Airways Operations Division, Ron Cooper GM Safety Regulation and Standards Divn and Dr Rob Edwards GM Projects Divn. Mrs Jackie Cook has been appointed GM of new regional carrier Australian Airlink (refer Airline Affairs). Daryl Jordan has been appointed Australia Asia Airlines’ Manager Airline Operations, Ian

Royal Aero Club in Receivership: The new class would more importantly for the first time ever allow off the shelf ‘factory’ purchases of kit aircraft, such as the Glasair depicted above. The implication here is of a new manufacturing industry evolving with kit type aircraft being built for both domestic and export markets. Another type

Grumman Wins Tomcat Production Respite: The remanufacturing of 12 F-14A Tomcats to F-14D(R) standard is to proceed, following last minute intervention from the US President in the matter, the contract for the 12 aircraft having previously been terminated by the US Secretary of Defense. The contract for the 12 aircraft was originally terminated despite having

Etops Well Proven: Extended range twin operations (ETOPS) have been well and truly proven to date, with some 125,000 overwater flights marred by only five inflight engine failures during an ETOPS portion of the service, with four of these occurring in the first year. The first ETOPS flight was in May 1985, and since that

Airbus Predicts Plummeting Orders: Airbus analysts have forecasted that orders taken by Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas could plummet from a high of 1,800 in 1989 to a dramatic low of between 300 and 500 during 1993-95. According to Airbus Industrie Vice-Presi- dent Commercial, Stuart Iddles, the forecast is based on the massive current industry

Transcontinental Still Hoping for Start Up: TransContinental Airlines is still confident that it will become the next airline to enter the Australian deregulated market. In discussions recently with AA, Trans- Continental founder, Capt Alex King, stated that he hoped the airline would be operational in West Australia by next March with east coast services in