Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

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Equipment and systems supplier Hamilton Sundstrand has announced pre-show product-support agreements worth almost $350 million. It also won contracts to supply power controllers for the Airbus A350 and control systems for Pratt &amp; Whitney’s PW810C and PW1000G engines. The company’s NP2000 propeller is flying test missions on a C-130, while its propeller for the Airbus A400M spins on another C-130 test bed.
The new product-support business covers spare parts, repairs, maintenance service programs, on-site support and comprehensive asset repair and exchange contracts. Hamilton Sundstrand has a seven-year agreement with UAE-owned SR Technics to repair power-generating system components on aircraft flown by the independent MRO company’s almost 500 airline customers.
In Sweden, Volvo Aero Services (VAS) expects to obtain and distribute 50 Hamilton Sundstrand “end” items to support Boeing 737, 747, 757 and 767 aircraft. VAS already serves as the exclusive distributor of surplus spare parts for Boeing. In North America, former Air Canada maintenance division ACT-Aero Technical Support and Services has signed a six-year agreement for Hamilton Sundstrand to provide exclusive spares and repair services (including shop support) on selected airframe and engine accessories for all aircraft types, with an option to extend the deal to eight years.
Two newly announced Hamilton Sundstrand agreements cover work for U.S. armed services’ rotorcraft. The company will supply the U.S. Army Communications &amp; Electronics Command with advanced flight control computers to upgrade Sikorsky UH-60A/L helicopters. Product engineering and program management under a five-year, up to $45 million agreement, will be performed in Connecticut, with component sub- and final-assembly work to be completed in Arizona.
Hamilton Sundstrand also will supply utility management systems to fellow United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft for U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters, making it the third-largest CH-53K content supplier. The UMS includes two Hamilton Sundstrand digital electronic computers to manage air-vehicle inputs for CH-53K subsystems.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Equipment and systems supplier Hamilton Sundstrand has announced pre-show product-support agreements worth almost $350 million.

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