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...joined GE in 1978 and soon went to the Aircraft Engines division. It was a great fit. Her father was a navigator, and one of her brothers is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She credits her parents with encouraging her love of math and science. Growing up with a sister and three brothers in Worcester, Mass., also prepared her for GE's famously intense managers. "My brothers would push me hard, Mellor says. "I had to hold...
...tapped to run a 1,000-employee aircraft-engine parts plant in Wilmington, N.C. At 40, she led the integration into GE of Greenwich Aviation Services, a $1.6 billion company that the larger firm had just acquired. Two years ago, Immelt and his successor at GE Medical, Joe Hogan, persuaded Mellor to move her family to the division's suburban Milwaukee, Wis., headquarters...
...Force system designed to defeat SAMs is an updated version of the AN/AAQ-24 (V) Nemesis, which protects both big transports (apparently including Air Force One) and military helicopters. Built by the Northrop Grumman Corp., it is known as the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures - LAIRCM - system, and will eventually be carried in all 943 cargo planes and tankers operated by the U.S. Air Force. Under current plans, the first C-17 will be outfitted with the system in 2004. Civilians may have to wait a little longer...
...revealed that Mas Selamat Kastari, the "most dangerous" of the 12 or so members of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah cell who escaped arrest and fled the country, had been planning an attempt to crash a plane into Singapore's Changi Airport. The airport is now reportedly protected by anti-aircraft missiles, as are the huge refinery facilities on the island's southwest section of Jurong, where multinationals such as Shell and Exxon Mobil maintain large facilities. In mid-October Singapore deployed units of its armored division around the area as further safeguards. By Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur...
...that is new in Iraq these days, the repeated targeting of and firing upon American and British aircraft in the no-flight zones is a disappointing reminder that much still remains the same. The American Central Command confirmed that Iraqi forces have fired on allied aircraft more than 30 times since the Security Council resolution was passed. Since Iraqi President Saddam Hussein expelled the U.N. inspectors in 1998, these attacks have been commonplace...