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George Keith Batchelor (Melbourne, 8 de março de 1920 — Cambridge, 30 de março de 2000) foi um matemático australiano. Foi durante muitos anos professor de matemática aplicada na Universidade de Cambridge, e foi chefe fundador da Faculdade de Matemática da Universidade de Cambridge.
George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years a Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and was founding head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).
- History
- Transatlantic and South American Routes in 1983-84
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California origins
Arrow Air founder George E. Batchelor was born of Native American ancestry in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in 1920. He became a pilot, and the loss of his first wife and son in a plane crash did not stop him from moving to Compton, California, in 1947 and establishing Arrow Air. The carrier established its base at Torrance Municipal Airport, Torrance, California, from where it operated Douglas DC-3s on passenger and cargo services within the state. The airline halted scheduled operations in 1953 due to...
Relaunched in 1981
On May 26, 1981, Arrow Air relaunched as a charter airline under Miami's Batchelor Enterprises, whose aviation operations included fixed-base operator (FBO) Batch Air and International Air Leases, Inc., Arrow's parent company. (Batch Air eventually became owned by an employee group and was sold to Greenwich Air in 1987 for more than $30 million.) Arrow added scheduled passenger services in April 1982, beginning with California-Montego Bay. Low fares were causing the company to lose money. In...
Grounded in 1995
Market conditions were not Arrow's only worries. The Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) grounded Arrow in March 1995, charging the carrier had improperly documented maintenance. A company spokesman countered that the grounding was unfair and was related simply to the FAA's request that Arrow prints out a hard copy of its fleet records, which were stored electronically. Company officials blamed the affair on a disgruntled employee who had been fired for theft. Arrow contracted other carriers...
According to the worldwide edition of the Official Airline Guide (OAG), in 1983 Arrow Air was operating scheduled passenger service with stretched Super DC-8 jets between the U.S. and Europe including nonstop flights between London Gatwick Airport (LGW) and both Denver (DEN) and Tampa (TPA) and also direct between Miami (MIA) and both London Gatwic...
The November 14, 1985, Arrow Air system timetable listed the following destinations. The airline was operating Boeing 727-200, stretched Super Douglas DC-8 and wide body McDonnell Douglas DC-10jetliners in scheduled passenger service at this time. 1. Aguadilla, PR(BQN) 2. Baltimore, MD(BWI) 3. Boston, MA(BOS) 4. Orlando, FL(MCO) 5. Miami, FL(MIA) 6...
Final fleet
The Arrow Cargo fleet includes the following aircraft (at Aug 1, 2009):
Retired fleet
Over the years, Arrow Air had in the past operated a variety of aircraft, including:
The livery used when the airline was operating as Arrow Air had a large dark blue 'A' on the aircraft tail, one end of which extended into a line along the fuselage below the window-level and to the nose below the cockpit windows. The remainder of the aircraft was white, with "Arrow Air" titles above the windows forward in red. At the time Arrow Ca...
December 7, 1949: An Arrow Air Douglas DC-3 (registered N60256), en route from Oakland to Sacramento, flew into the groundnear Benicia, California, during bad weather. All aboard (six passengers an...December 12, 1985: An Arrow Air Douglas DC-8-63CF (registered N950JW), operating as Arrow Air Flight 1285, carrying American military personnel on a charter flight home for Christmas, crashed in Ne...On April 4, 2001 at 01:00 AM Arrow Air Flight from Cali after a refueling stop had a nose landing gear malfunction warning. After checklists completed with putting gear handle down, the nose gear d...On February 28, 2002, Arrow Air Flight P6L, a Douglas DC-8-62F operated by Arrow Air (registered N1808E), named "Santa Rosa", touched down at Singapore Changi Airport. The tower instructed the airc...30 de mar. de 2000 · Professor George Batchelor, who has died aged 80, was a towering figure in the field of fluid mechanics - the science of how matter flows - and had an enormous influence on engineering science and, in Britain and the Commonwealth, applied mathematics.
30 de mar. de 2000 · George Batchelor was an Australian applied mathematician who worked in fluid dynamics. View two larger pictures. Biography. George Batchelor was the son of George Conybere Batchelor and Ivy Constance Berneye. He attended Essendon and Melbourne high schools. He completed his secondary school education in 1937 after exceptional achievements.
Born in Oklahoma, George Batchelor graduated from the Aeronautical Institute of California and flew with the U.S. Army Air Corpss in World War II. He has been closely tied to aviation with over 50 years of management in aircraft, sales, leasing, finance, maintenance, and airline operations.
George Keith Batchelor foi um matemático australiano. Foi durante muitos anos professor de matemática aplicada na Universidade de Cambridge, e foi chefe fundador da Faculdade de Matemática da Universidade de Cambridge.
