According to most A-10 pilots, you know you're getting too low while flying in combat when dirt starts blasting out of the cockpit air vents! This is the story of close air support and one manufacturers' vain attempt to breathe new life into an attack aircraft...
Generations of Spokanites have watched the lumbering B-52s and KC-135s fly overhead and seen their fatigue-clad neighbors leave each day for work at Fairchild Air Force Base. Some of us have ventured out to the West Plains base to take advantage of open-house invitations to see and touch the mystery...
Spokane civic leaders' efforts to keep Fairchild Air Force Base off the Pentagon's base-closure list are reminiscent of how the West Plains base got its start. In early 1942, business and civic leaders here raised $125,000 - a lot of money back then - to buy 1,400 acres of land...
By Bert Caldwell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 18--BASE'S FUTURE IS UP IN THE AIR: Two initiatives important to the future of Fairchild Air Force Base encountered some turbulence in Washington, D.C., last week. Sometimes, elections spawn...
By Eric Blom, Portland Press Herald, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--Kirk Pond, the chairman and chief executive officer of Fairchild Semiconductor, doesn't exactly have the ear of Alan Greenspan. But as a new director of the Federal Reserve Bank of...
By Brian MacQuarrie, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 7--HATIN AL SULTAN, Iraq--This is the stuff that heroes are made of -- unquestioned acts of selfless courage that save others' lives at the risk of one's own. ...
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 February 2003-DELTA AIR LINES: Additional flight increases service options for customersC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:02202003 Lansing, Mich. -- Delta Connection will increase travel options for customers by adding jet service between Lansing, Mich., and Delta Air Lines' (NYSE:...
The U.S. Navy's E-2C Hawkeye carrier-based surveillance aircraft could improve its chances for more international sales after it receives a new radar later this decade, said industry executives. A Hawkeye equipped with a more sophisticated radar, these officials said, would be more competitive internationally, against the...
RJs blaze a trail across the US domestic market--lead, follow or get out of the way The introduction of the first purpose-built regional jet into US service eight years ago was met with a fair degree of skepticism from the industry. Detractors...
Boeing mulls entering RJ market with a shortened version of the slow-selling 717 With all the hype and hoopla about regional jets, who can blame Boeing for wanting to get in on he act? After all, if Bombardier, Embraer and Fairchild Dornier...
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Singapore Airlines SIA wants to increase its share in Air New Zealand by paying Briereley Investments NZD285m for a 16.7% stake of B class shares according to the New Zealand Press Association. SIA wants to increase its share in Air...
Business Editors DULLES, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 4, 2000 The Fairchild Corporation [NYSE: FA] announced today that the Form F-1 for its subsidiary, Fairchild Bermuda Ltd., has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This allows The Fairchild Corporation to spin-off Fairchild Bermuda Ltd. and do a reverse...
Fairchild Semiconductor International recently purchased Advantest America Inc.'s T6682 1GHz test system, now that the Portland, Maine, semiconductor manufacturer has expanded its product offerings to high-speed, custom-designed logic components. Advantest, Santa Clara, Calif., said the T6682 will give Fairchild the ability to quickly perform test development and complete evaluation testing...
DULLES, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 1, 1999-- The Fairchild Corporation (NYSE: FA) announced today that it had closed the sale of the assets of its Dallas Aerospace, Inc. subsidiary for approximately $57 million in cash, to United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX). Dallas Aerospace sells and leases aircraft engines and parts. ...
NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 30, 1996--On Oct. 25, 1996 the United States Air Force announced the award of a contract to provide Contractor Logistic Support to the government's fleet of C-26 aircraft. The successful bidder was Fairchild Aircraft of San Antonio, Texas in a proposal document...
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