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October 1, 2009 Rotor & Wing
Beyond Regulations
I hadn’t wanted to write such a serious piece on my second month as editor. But the Washington Post series called "Fatal Flights" that was published at the end of August and the...
October 1, 2009 Rotor & Wing
Rotorcraft Report: New Weapon in Aviation Safety Wars
In its latest response to the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) industry’s flight record, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has added a new arrow to its quiver. The agency has...
October 1, 2009 Rotor & Wing
Rotorcraft Report: Oct. 29 Webinar to Focus on HEMS
Aviation Today is hosting a webinar — scheduled for 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29 — that asks some of the world’s top helicopter air safety experts to provide a realistic...
October 1, 2009 Rotor & Wing
North to Alaska
Alaska’s North Slope Borough Search and Rescue team’s legacy Bell 412 gets a complete Cobham EFIS upgrade, including the world’s first single-pilot IFR approval for synthetic vision in a helicopter. The...
October 1, 2009 Rotor & Wing
Rotorcraft Report: Macau’s Sky Shuttle Sets High Standards
Scheduled commercial helicopter services have been tried in many markets around the world, but few have succeeded. One major exception is found in Hong Kong, the former British Crown colony that...
October 1, 2009 Rotor & Wing
Marine One: The End Game
Numerous obituaries have been written about the VH-71 Presidential Helicopter program. What if those death notices are premature? While the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) cancelled the VH-71 Presidential...
September 30, 2009 Rotor & Wing
Army Orders FLIR Sensor Systems
Portland, Ore.-based FLIR Systems has received an order for its Star SAFIRE multi-sensor systems from the U.S. Army...
September 29, 2009 Avionics
Hermes Debuts Heavy Fuel Engine
Elbit Systems Ltd., based in Haifa, Israel, said its Hermes90 UAV completed its heavy fuel engine (HFE) debut flight...
September 29, 2009 Avionics
Moog Buys GE Aviation Business
Moog, based in East Aurora, N.Y., on Monday announced it had completed the $90 million cash acquisition of the flight control actuation business from GE Aviation. The business, formerly Smiths Aerospace and located in Wolverhampton, U.K., designs...
September 29, 2009 Aviation Maintenance
BAE Systems Launches Parts Tool
Rockville, Md.-based BAE Systems has introduced a series of products to assist with parts management, including for commercial and...
September 29, 2009 Aviation Maintenance
Atlantic Fasteners Gets Supplier Award
Lockheed Martin-Electronic Systems has given its STAR Supplier Award to Atlantic Fasteners of West...
September 28, 2009 Avionics
Raytheon Conducts Flight Tests For DCGS
Raytheon said Monday it established initial operational capability and conducted flight tests for a communications component for the U.S. Air Force Distributed Common...
September 25, 2009 Avionics
Honeywell Awarded Navy Contract
Honeywell was awarded a $30.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide additional 46 Block II micro aerial vehicle systems for the...
September 25, 2009 Avionics
ViaSat Wins Navy Terminal Work
ViaSat has been awarded two additional orders valued at more than $10 million for Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals and spare components from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. The orders are for LVT(1), LVT(2), LVT(4)...
September 24, 2009 Avionics
Raytheon Awarded ATFLIR Contract
Raytheon was awarded a $42 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide 14 infrared advanced targeting forward looking pod systems (ATFLIR) and...
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