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Blackhawk Names Cadow as Regional Sales Eastern U. S.


Blackhawk Modifications has Cadow


appointed Bill Cadow as regional sales manager for the Eastern United States. “I am very proud to have Bill Cadow as our newest team member at Blackhawk,” says Allmon. “Just having the experience and vast knowledge of the King Air brand alone makes him a game changer.”


Späth Appointed Senior VP SR Technics SR Technics has appointed Christof Späth as senior vice president Component Maintenance Group. In this new role he will be responsible for Component Maintenance across the group, fostering globalization of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network by


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component repair locations in Switzerland, Spain and Malaysia. Reporting directly to André Wall, president, SR Technics, Späth will be part of SR Technics’ Leadership Team. Before joining SR Technics, Späth was senior vice president and general manager, MRO and FBO, for the EMEA and Asia region at Jet Aviation. Prior to this, he worked for RUAG Aerospace as executive vice president, Aircraft Services.“Christof Späth will play an important role in working with our component repair shops in Europe and Asia to maintain best in class on-time-delivery and turnaround times, as well as widening our capability development so we can truly support our Integrated Component Services customers in all their needs,” said André Wall, president, SR Technics.


Vector Promotes Bland/Appoints Hawley Vector Aerospace announced that Vector Aerospace Engine Services - Atlantic has appointed Paul Bland as regional sales and service manager for New Zealand and the following areas in Australia; Southern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania. Bland most recently served as a regional mobile repair team (MRT) manager for Vector’s service center in Brisbane, Australia. Additionally, Vector


Aerospace Engine


Services – Atlantic announced Glenn Hawley has been appointed director, Service Center Network. In his new role, Hawley will be responsible for the overall operations of Vector’s five service centers located in Dallas, Tex.; Atlanta, Georgia; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Calgary, Alberta and Nairobi, Kenya. Hawley joined Vector in 2000 as a chief inspector and later was promoted to service center manager for the Dallas, Texas location. He also managed Vector’s Service Center Network for almost three years.


8 Aviation Maintenance | avm-mag.com | May 2013 Old Dominion Makes Maintenance News


A public-private partnership near Petersburg, Va., could pay handsome dividends down the road in the development of aviation maintenance technologies. The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), a nonprofit organization which brings together top aerospace and technology companies like Rolls-Royce, Chromalloy, TurboCombustor Technology, Sandvik and Sulzer Metco, officially opened its doors in March. Rolls-Royce, the driving force behind the initiation of the project, owns approximately


1,000 acres in the area—the company’s first green field site in North America—and turned over a small parcel of it to CCAM. Rolls-Royce already operates an engine parts manufacturing facility on its acreage and is building a second parts factory there, too. CCAM brings the technology companies together with three local schools, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. Unlike many academic- industrial consortiums, however, the universities will not own the intellectual property (IP) although they will retain publishing rights. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell likened the venture to a bridge over the “valley of death between ideas and commercial success.” A major focus of the new facility is on advanced surface engineering and manufacturing systems. Surface engineering involves how to understand surfaces, prepare them and keep them clean, explained Ben Zimmerman, CCAM’s manager, surface engineering. This includes treatments, such as coatings, and process control. The aim is to deliver production-ready packages vs. performing fundamental research, he said. Chromalloy, alone, has a working list of 43 potential CCAM projects, said James Whitton, a company program manager and CCAM’s director of operations. These include airfoil repair, case repairs and coatings, he said. The company already has initiated a “directed project” with the University of Virginia on in situ, non-destructive testing of airfoil repairs, Whitton said. Chromalloy donated laser powder deposition equipment worth more than $1 million


to the effort. A large blue “box,” stationed in CCAM’s 16,000-square-foot open high-bay area, contains the equipment that provides a method of additive manufacturing used in tasks such as the repair of turbine blades and vanes. CCAM hopes to grow to a $20 million annual research budget in five years, according


to Mike Beffel, vice president of Chromalloy Castings and CCAM’s interim president and executive director. “But we don’t want to make money,” he explained. CCAM would drive any surpluses into research efforts. There were nine generic and six directed projects, Beffel estimated, as of late March. All members can share in the fruits of generic projects, but only the funding participants enjoy the benefits of their respective directed projects. — By Charlotte Adams


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