ANN Daily Touch N Go: 03.17.09 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 03.17.09
(ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature -- FAAST, AASF And The New
Aero-NewsBug: 03.17.09 (ANN Special Report, with
ANN's Jim Campbell, FAASTeam Manager Kevin Clover, and Paul Burger,
Executive Direc
This group is made of retired McDonnell Engineers, most of whom
began their careers at MAC either on the F101, F3H or F4H programs.
They worked together on those programs as well as the DC-10, F15,
F18 and AV8 programs. They get together once a month for lunch
maintaining a camaraderie that they shared for years as Teammates
at MAC.
"As you are well aware, the global economy remains
unstable and the international community faces tremendous
challenges. While these steps have been painful for us all, they
were necessary."
Source: Cessna CEO Jack Pelton, in a memo
Friday to workers stating the planemaker will scale back production
of its Citation CJ, Sovereign and Citation X bizjets at its main
Wichita production facility. In the coming weeks, Cessna also plans
to announce furloughs for some workers on those production lines...
on top of the 4,600 layoffs previously announced by the
company.
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