Statement Concerning GAO Decision
June 19, 2008
WASHINGTON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ — The following is the statement of
Randy Belote, Vice President of Corporate & International Communications
for Northrop Grumman Corporation:
“We respect the GAO’s work in analyzing the Air Force’s tanker
acquisition process. We continue to believe that Northrop Grumman offered
the most modern and capable tanker for our men and women in uniform. We
will review the GAO findings before commenting further.”
SOURCE Northrop Grumman Corporation
Hawker Beechcraft Delivers World’s Most Advanced Business Jet.
June 19, 2008
WICHITA, Kan., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — Hawker Beechcraft Corporation
(HBC) is pleased to announce the first delivery of its flagship Hawker 4000
super-midsized business jet to customers Gary and Donna Hall during a
special ceremony today at HBC’s Customer Delivery Center. The Hawker 4000
is first in its class, first in the world and the most advanced business
jet in the world based on its innovative composite construction.
“This is not only a truly significant moment in Hawker Beechcraft’s
history, but also a landmark day for general aviation as we begin
delivering the world’s most advanced business jet — our flagship Hawker
4000,” said Jim Schuster, chairman and CEO of HBC. “We are ushering in a
new era for general aviation as the Hawker 4000 is first in its class and
the first in the world. I am delighted to present the first Hawker 4000 to
Mr. and Mrs. Hall as they — along with our large number of Hawker 4000
customers worldwide — will enjoy this revolutionary aircraft and benefit
from our commitment to superior customer support.”
The Hawker 4000 has extensively toured the globe and has been in high
demand, with more than 130 of the technologically advanced jets ordered to
date. The first several deliveries of the Hawker 4000 will be made to
customers in the U.S., followed by Venezuela, the United Kingdom, and South
Africa.
The Hawker 4000 capacity and range is designed to meet the needs of
customers domestically and internationally. Its impressive climb rate
quickly takes passengers from sea level direct to 41,000 feet (12,497 m) in
just 20 minutes at maximum takeoff weight. It has a certified ceiling of
45,000 ft. (13,716 m). At altitude, the Hawker 4000 can accelerate to its
maximum cruise speed of Mach 0.84. The business jet is powered by two Pratt
& Whitney Canada PW308A engines which each deliver 6,900 pounds (30.7 kN)
of thrust flat rated to ISA +22 degrees Celsius. Coupled with the Hawker
4000’s advanced wing design, the engines provide impressive high
altitude/hot temperature and short field capability that is so important in
many US and international regions.
Much of the luxurious aircraft’s standard equipment is optional on
competitors’ offerings. For example, the Hawker 4000 cockpit features a
Honeywell Epic avionics suite with digital CNS radios and five
high-resolution 8 x 10 inch (20 x 25 cm) LCD displays. It also has enhanced
situational awareness and flight management systems backed by real-time
system monitoring and status. Ideally suited for long-range operations or
long over water flights, the Hawker 4000 is equipped with dual IRS
(Inertial Reference Systems), dual air-cycle machines and a hydraulic motor
driven backup generator as standard. Another standard feature is a Full
Authority Auto Throttle which provides easy, fast and efficient automatic
thrust control during all phases of flight.
The groundbreaking Hawker 4000 is constructed of advanced composite
material. Its fuselage features a true 72 inch (183 cm) standup cabin with
a 77.5 in. width (196.8 cm). A flat floor runs the entire length of the
aircraft, leading to an impressively large 88.5 cubic ft. (2.51 cubic m)
baggage area, accessible during flight through the cabin, or on the ground
through an exterior door. The aircraft’s interior is a standard eight-place
configuration with fully-articulating executive seats in double club
format. The standup cabin’s interior is fully customizable with a wide
variety of materials and cabin finishes available.
A businessman who travels regularly between Joplin and Las Vegas, Hall
wanted an aircraft that could travel non-stop 100 percent of the time.
After being impressed by a tour of the Wichita facility years ago, he and
his wife decided to purchase their first new aircraft, a Beechjet 400A.
They have been dedicated customers ever since, purchasing a second Beechjet
400A and then a Hawker 800XP, which is their current aircraft.
SOURCE Hawker Beechcraft Corporation
Embraer Signs Contract With Brazil’s TRIP LINHAS AÉREAS
June 19, 2008
Brazilian regional airline expands its fleet with the EMBRAER 175 jet
São José dos Campos, June 19, 2008 –
Embraer signed TRIP Linhas Aéreas for the sale of five EMBRAER 175 jets. The deal
also includes options for ten more, plus purchase rights for another 15. The total
value of the firm orders, at list price, is US$ 167.5 million, and could go over
US$ 1 billion, if all of the options and purchase rights are confirmed for the
EMBRAER 175.
“We are proud to have TRIP Linhas Aéreas as the newest operator of our E-Jets family in
Brazil,” said Frederico Fleury Curado, Embraer President and CEO. “TRIP is one of the
largest regional airlines in South America, and we are certain that the EMBRAER 175 will
contribute to both enhance its growth process and consolidate Brazil’s regional air
transportation network.”
TRIP’s EMBRAER 175 jets will be configured in a single class, offering exceptional comfort
to 86 passengers. The delivery of the first airplane is expected for 2009.
“The EMBRAER 175 was chosen by TRIP after a thorough technical-economic evaluation,”
said José Mário Caprioli, founder and President of TRIP Linhas Aéreas. “The model
presented advantages in the three basic aspects of our analysis: best relationship between
operating cost and passenger comfort, performance on short runways, and seating capacity.
This last factor was decisive for us, since we are a regional airline and, for that reason, we
need a fleet of aircraft with less seats, in order to serve our markets and maintain our
operations. We are proud of the fact that the jet is made in Brazil and that we can collaborate
in integrating the Brazilian commercial aviation system.”
The EMBRAER 175 is the second of the four members of the E-Jets family and entered
service in July 2005. On March 31, 2008, the EMBRAER 170/190 E-Jets had logged 835 firm
orders and 840 options from more than 45 customers in 28 countries, and had surpassed 1.4
million flight hours.
Wagner Ferreira to Leave Commercial Vice Presidency at TAM
June 17, 2008
Executive will depart July 1 to devote himself to business activities
SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TAM (Bovespa:
TAMM4 and NYSE: TAM) announces that, after nine years of outstanding
service with TAM, Mr. Jose Wagner Ferreira, Commercial Vice-President, has
decided to leave the company, as of July 1, to devote himself to business
activities.
During the period in which Ferreira headed the commercial department,
TAM underwent significant growth, moving on to operate international
routes, increasing its billing and achieving the major milestone of
becoming the largest airline in the southern hemisphere.
The management at TAM thanks Wagner Ferreira for his valuable
contributions and wishes him every success in his new undertakings.
Management of the commercial department, of TAM Cargo and TAM Viagens
will report directly to the company’s president, Comandante David Barioni
Neto.
Statement by Captain Steve Wallach, Chairman of the United Master Executive Council Of the Air Line Pilots Association, Regarding SS. 3130, ‘The Increasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of 2008.’
June 17, 2008
CHICAGO, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is a
statement by Captain Steve Wallach, Chairman of the United Master Executive
Council of the Air Line Pilots Association:
“The Increasing Transparency and Accountability in Oil Prices Act of
2008 represents a welcome and common sense approach toward reforming our
nation’s oil industry. The skyrocketing price of oil not only threatens the
future and viability of our domestic airlines, it is undercutting the
long-term health of our nation’s economy. I applaud Sen. Richard Durbin
(D-Ill.) and his colleagues for acting with urgency in scheduling today’s
congressional hearings regarding this Act. It is time that the oil industry
undergoes reform, and that transparency in the energy commodity futures
market will help align the price of oil with supply and demand.
“The skyrocketing and seemingly uncontrollable price of oil is
hamstringing Americans and the business community. Speculative trading in
the oil markets is inflating the price of oil. Our nation’s airline
industry is feeling the brunt of these prices. It is my hope — and the
hope of the 7,400 United Airlines pilots I represent — that Sen. Durbin
and his colleagues will succeed in increasing the abilities of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate oil futures trading and
laying the groundwork for reining in escalating oil prices.”
SOURCE United Chapter, Air Line Pilots Association
Intercim and Dassault Systemes Sign Memorandum of Understanding
June 17, 2008
Combined Vision for MES and PLM Based on Dassault Systemes’ Newly
Introduced V6 Platform and Intercim’s Pertinence Suite Will be Presented at
DEVCON 2008 in Paris, France June 17-18
ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 16 /PRNewswire/ — Intercim LLC, a global
leader in manufacturing and production operations management software
solutions for advanced and highly regulated industries and Dassault
Systemes (DS) (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world
leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, have signed
a Memorandum of Understanding focused on combined solutions for the
aerospace and defense industry. The objective of this MOU is to provide the
aerospace and defense industry with Intercim’s manufacturing operations
management solution integrated with Dassault Systemes’ V6 platform.
While integration already exists between Dassault Systemes’ V5 PLM
platform and Intercim manufacturing execution systems (MES) solutions,
Intercim and DS have decided to take a significant step forward to leverage
the openness, online content and creation capabilities of Dassault
Systemes’ recently announced V6 platform. Intercim will provide customers
with a complete manufacturing operations management system integrated with
V6’s single PLM platform for intellectual property management. This unique
partnership will create a Web-based solution that offers the following
value to customers:
– Visibility and traceability to all manufacturing stakeholders of shop
floor execution, with a real-time 3D access to the “as-built” product
information.
– Increased reactivity to plant-floor issues with real-time visibility
across the extended enterprise of all production assets directly within the
3D production model,and with immediate corrective action validation in the
virtual model prior to implementation.
– Increase knowledge sharing between the shop-floor and product and
manufacturing engineering with a common view and understanding of the
virtual product and production system.
“With the introduction of V6 in the market, Dassault Systemes provides
to its manufacturing community customers an online collaborative solution
to support PLM 2.0. PLM 2.0 is to PLM what Web 2.0 is to the Web. Everyone
can connect to a single intellectual property PLM management solution to
enrich and share the manufacturing assets of the enterprise,” explained
Pascal Lecland, vice president R&D, DELMIA, Dassault Systemes. “Intercim’s
partnership is key for Dassault Systemes and a major step forward for the
aerospace and defense industry. Intercim solutions bring customer value
through their ability to collect operational best practices and communicate
shop floor non-conformances with the engineering and design teams. We are
proud to expand our current partnership with a leading MES company, into
DELMIA’s first V6 partnership, in order to provide our customers with a
unique PLM-MES solution.”
Intercim president and CEO, John Todd says: “Intercim chose to tighten
and to strongly commit to this partnership because Dassault Systemes is the
undisputed leader both in terms of vision and products for PLM 2.0. We are
looking forward to many, many common successes and are well underway to
achieving this vision of manufacturing operations management and PLM with
several of our joint customers.”
Middle East Client Orders Two Airbus A318 Elites
June 16, 2008
A Middle East customer has placed a firm order for two A318 Elites, highlighting the growing success of the newest and most affordable member of the Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) Family.
Both aircraft will feature the classic VIP cabin created by Lufthansa Technik in partnership with Airbus – the largest and most comfortable of any aircraft in its class – which combines widespread appeal, practicality and affordability. They willl be powered by CFM International CFM56-5 engines.
Launched towards the end of 2005, Airbus A318 Elite deliveries began in May 2007, and the type is now a firmly established as a successful member of the Airbus ACJ Family, representing about a quarter of the more than 100 firm orders won to date.
Airbus’ A318 Elite has a range of 4,200 nm/7,800 km with eight passengers – enough to fly non-stop from London to New York – as well as from anywhere in Europe to anywhere in the Middle East, or transcontinentally throughout Africa, America or Asia.
Airbus’ A318 Elite features the same wide, tall and spacious cabin as the rest of the family, in a slightly shorter cabin length, but still has the space for a private office/bedroom with ensuite bathroom, as well as a large living area that is bigger than the entire cabin of smaller jets. It is the only corporate jet in its price bracket with such a large cabin, introducing new standards of comfort and space to a broader market.
Airbus’ ACJ Family, comprising the A318 Elite, the Airbus ACJ and the A320 Prestige, are the only all-new corporate jets at the top-end of the market, delivering modern designs with unmatched appeal and value-retention.
It is the only corporate jet family that is flying on every continent – including Antarctica – highlighting its versatility and widespread success with private customers.
Airbus’s ACJ Family is the first in business aviation with fly-by-wire controls. It is also the only corporate jet in its class with extensive weight-saving carbonfibre composites, cost-saving centralised maintenance for all of its systems, and an advanced fuel-saving aerodynamic design that includes wingtip fences as standard.
The Airbus A320 Family, from which the Airbus ACJ Family evolved, has long been the industry benchmark, with more than 6,100 orders and around 275 customers and operators to its credit – and the figure is growing all the time.
Airbus is an EADS company.
F-AIR Colombia – June 24-29, 2008
June 16, 2008
BOMBARDIER HIGHLIGHTS PERFORMANCE, SPEED AND RELIABILITY AT
F-AIR COLOMBIA
Bombardier will showcase its super light Learjet 45 XR and super-midsize Challenger 300 jets at
the IV Feria Aeronáutica Internacional (F-Air) at Jose Maria Córdova lnternational Airport, in
Rionegro, Colombia, June 24-29, 2008.
Learjet 45 XR: The eight-to-nine passenger Learjet 45 XR aircraft flies faster, farther, with more
passengers than any other super light business jet. Its passenger cabin area is approximately 15 inches
(38 cm) longer than that of its closest competitor, and it offers seated passengers more head and
shoulder room than any other aircraft in its class. The aircraft can fly 1,824 nm (3,378 km) with eight pax
with NBAA IFR (100 nm) fuel reserves*.
Challenger 300: The only business jet to feature Lufthansa Technik’s top of the line NICE™ cabin
management system, this first true super-midsize aircraft offers transcontinental range and superior longrange
cruise speed, with eight passengers. It can fly Rionegro – Toronto non-stop with a full payload and
its superior airfield performance allows it to operate out of
5,000-foot (1,524-m) runways with ease*.
Honeywell To Provide Miniature Electronic Navigation Aid For Future Soldier Program
June 16, 2008
Dead-Reckoning Module Provides Personnel Location Where GPS is Unavailable
EUROSATORY, PARIS, June 16, 2008 – Honeywell (NYSE:HON), a leader in inertial navigation technologies, announced today that it has been selected by EADS, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, to provide a miniature electronic navigation aid – a Dead-Reckoning Module – that ensures accurate personnel location data in environments where GPS signals are unavailable.
“Honeywell’s personnel navigator module provides position data even when the user is inside a building or under tree foliage, and this enables better tracking of teammates in dangerous situations,” said Werner Hansli, Honeywell Sales Director, European Land Systems. “This miniature electronic navigation aid is extremely valuable for helping to ensure troop safety in urban warfare and combat where buildings and other obstructions block GPS.”
In urban warfare environments it is essential for soldiers to know where colleagues are so missions remain coordinated and cohesive. Troops need continual awareness of unit members’ coordinates for status updates and new battle tactics and orders.
In providing accurate position information for the pedestrian user, the light-weight personnel navigator module is attached to the user’s vest and when GPS is available identifies the individual’s stride length. The electronic aid has multiple sensors – three accelerometer, three gyroscopes, three axis magnetometers and a barometric altimeter – as well as software algorithms that detect and translate the user’s motion. When the person steps into a building or under a canopy and loses the GPS signal, the navigation aid takes over and tracks the person’s direction and movement to provide a highly accurate position reading. The unit is typically accurate to within two percent of the total distance travelled.
Honeywell has long been a leader in reliable, high quality inertial navigation for aerospace and commercial systems including the Laseref® V Micro Inertial Reference System for air transport and business jets; the Enhanced GPS Inertial Navigation System for military fighters, transports and helicopters; the HG1700 Inertial Measurement Unit for missiles and munitions; and the TALIN for land combat vehicles.
The company produces other highly reliable electronics for military, aerospace and commercial use.
Elbit Systems and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) to Establish New Vision Systems Research Centre
June 15, 2008
Elbit Systems to offer Technion researchers an advanced laboratory,
research grants and guidance in unique research fields
HAIFA, Israel, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Elbit Systems Ltd.
(Nasdaq: ESLT) and the Haifa-based Israel Institute of Technology (the
“Technion”) signed a joint research agreement in the field of vision
systems. According to the agreement, Elbit Systems will award research
grants during the next five years, to selected Technion researchers of the
Electrical Engineering Department. These researchers will support their
research using Elbit Systems’ advanced Eye Tracking laboratory.
Elbit Systems recently published a call for research in vision and
computer aided vision fields, directed at students and researchers from the
Electrical Engineering Department of the Technion. Elbit Systems has so far
received numerous research requests from both undergraduate and graduate
students. The Grant Committee, which includes Elbit Systems’ R&D
representatives and a Technion observer, will soon determine which of the
research requests will be granted. The Committee will continue to follow
additional research fields suitable for the award of research grants in the
coming years.
Researchers in the eye tracking field will examine, among other
aspects, the human eye’s capability to track objects in space, and qualify
and categorize the objects perceived (3D movement, etc.). The vision
researches’ findings are expected to contribute to the improvement of data
fusion capabilities in determining targeted objects’ outlines, efficient
automatic calibration in case of overlapping cameras’ fields of vision,
picture reconstruction and more.
“The new program we are launching and Elbit Systems’ annual donation to
the research in the vision systems field reflect the fruitful, reciprocal
cooperation between the Technion and industry,” said Yitzhak Apeloig, the
Technion President. “I trust that both our students and Elbit Systems will
benefit from this cooperation and soon reap its benefits. On behalf of the
Technion and the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering Department, the Technion’s flagship
and largest department, I express my gratitude to Elbit Systems, the
flagship of the Israeli industry.”
“Elbit Systems is proud to be an active partner in advancing the
research activity performed at the Technion, one of the most
technologically advanced research institutions in the world,” said Joseph
Ackerman, Elbit Systems’ President and CEO. “We see our constant investment
in R&D a central ingredient in Elbit Systems’ success so far, and vital for
the maintenance of our leadership in the highly competitive global defense
industry. Over the generations, many Technion graduates have joined Elbit
Systems. We take pleasure in our ability to contribute and offer more
Technion students the opportunity to research the fascinating field of
vision systems and particularly eye tracking during their studies.”
Elbit Systems is a world leader in vision systems, offering its cutting
edge technology in diverse fields, such as advanced helmet mounted systems
for combat aircraft, providing pilots with critical flight and mission
information which is projected on-line into the pilots’ helmets, without
the need to turn or lower their gaze. The electromagnetic position tracking
technology enables accurate detection of the pilot’s head position and
field of vision.
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