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Jeppesen (also known as Jeppesen Sanderson) is an American company that specialises in aeronautical charting and navigation services, flight planning, pilot supplies and aviation training. The company is a subsidiary of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Jeppesen also publishes related software, some of which is used on its electronic flight bag product line. Image File history File links Jeppesen. ...
Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), based in Renton Washington, is a unit of The Boeing Company, consisting of the Seattle-based former Boeing Airplane Company (the civil airliner division), as well as the Long Beach-based Douglas Aircraft division of the former McDonnell Douglas Corporation. ...
Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) is a general purpose computing platform intended to reduce, or replace, paper-based reference material often found in the Pilots carry-on Flight Bag (e. ...
Jeppesen is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices around the world including Neu Isenburg (Germany), Crawley (United Kingdom) and Canberra (Australia).
History The company was founded in 1934 by Elrey Borge Jeppesen, a pilot himself working for Varney Airlines, who was the first to make aeronautical charts for pilots to navigate in flight. The information he collected and the charts he drew were at first only for personal use, but fellow pilots quickly saw the benefits of using these charts and Jeppesen started selling copies of his chart book for 10 dollars. Other pilots started to collect data on their own routes and handing this to Jeppesen for him to include in his navigation book. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Elrey Borge Jeppesen (January 28, 1907 – November 26, 1996) was an aviation pioneer. ...
Walter Varney was the founder of Varney Airlines, based in Boise, Idaho. ...
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United Airlines, the airline Jeppesen worked for in the late 1930s after Varney airlines had merged with several other companies to form United Airlines, was one of the first airlines to start using Jeppesen's charts. After a while the chart business started taking up so much of Jeppesen's time that he quit his job as a Captain and became dedicated to making charts. Uniteds logo as seen at United hub Denver International Airport. ...
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Allegations against Jeppesen
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Please see the discussion on the talk page. | According to an article that appeared in October, 2006, in The New Yorker, Jeppesen has close business ties to the CIA. The article claims that the company has provided navigational and logistics support to the agency's extraordinary rendition program. [1]. The article says Jeppesen provided "flight plans, clearance to fly over other countries, hotel reservations, and ground-crew arrangements" to the CIA. The author also quotes Bob Overby, Jeppesen's managing director, as saying at a meeting, "We do all of the extraordinary renditions flights—you know, the torture flights. Let's face it, some of those flights end up that way...It certainly pays well." Image File history File links Stop. ...
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On November 16, 2006 Amnesty International staged a demonstration in front of the company's International Trip and Flight Planning Office in San Jose, California to protest their involvement in the rendition program.[2]. In December, 2006 representatives of the South Bay Mobilization for Peace and Justice group asked the San Jose City Council to remove a Jeppesen banner from a city skating rink. The group also holds a weekly vigil at the company's offices. [3] Amnesty International symbol Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) comprising a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.[1] Essentially it compares actual practices of human rights with internationally accepted standards and demands compliance where these have not...
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Nobeltec Nobeltec is a company that provides marine navigation products such as navigation software and charts. The company was purchased by Jeppesen in 1999. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
C-MAP On January 30th 2007 Boeing concluded its purchase of C-Map, a leading provider of digital maritime cartography, data services and other navigational information. C-Map became a part of Jeppesen’s marine division.
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