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ATC

Budget woes delay further CPDLC trials

Citing budget constraints, senior FAA management has apparently postponed the planned expansion of controller/pilot data link communications (CPDLC) trials
Avionics

Unique flight display concept simplifies the instrument scan

Researchers at the University of West Florida’s Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola are developing a symbol-based, flight-deck display t
Avionics

Flying with Oz: One Pilot’s Opinion

As an elderly, 4,300-hour pilot with a fair amount of instrument time, I was initially skeptical about Oz.
Avionics

European firm introduces cordless Iridium satcom

Cordless cabin telephony with global connectivity at an affordable price is the promise of Belgium’s Orb’Phone, a division of Euro GSM.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

SITA predicts personal cellphone use in the cabin is just around the corner

European information technology giant SITA predicts that by 2005 airline passengers will be able to make calls in flight using their personal cellphones.
Training and Workforce

Primus Epic for the PC shaves simulator time

With the Primus Epic integrated avionics system poised to make its debut in a variety of business airplanes and the Bell/Agusta AB139 helicopter, Honeywell
Rotorcraft

Good News, Bad News: Just Another Day for the V-22

Just when it looks like the V-22 Osprey program might have a good day, the fates conspire to create more clouds on the horizon.
Rotorcraft

Agusta To Increase Stake in BA609 Tiltrotor Program

Agusta officials have revealed they are currently negotiating with Bell to increase the share the Italian manufacturer holds in the BA609 tiltrotor program
Rotorcraft

Air Methods Places Its First EC 130

As evidence of a continual, albeit gradual, increase in the sale of commercial helicopters, multi-ship purchases are on the upswing.
Rotorcraft

Funnel Finder

Some pilots don’t look forward to flying in bad weather, but helicopter pilot and TV news reporter Johnny Rowlands actually fires up his Bell JetRanger and
Rotorcraft

Mode of Transport or Amusement Park Attraction?

It’s unclear what the following facts really say about a mode of transportation that’s nearly 60 years old, but a new Nevada corporation has set up shop se
Rotorcraft

To Protect and Serve

Amid numerous press accounts of helicopter heroism during the war in Iraq comes this story of the sort of everyday utility humanitarianism that should walk
Rotorcraft

Resolute MDHI boss pledges new profitability

“‘What do they know about the helicopter business? They’ll be begging to be bought out in six months.’ That’s what the rest of the industry was saying abou
Rotorcraft

Rotorhead slide-rule set compares innovations, findings

In the arcane world of helicopter rotor aerodynamics, two concepts that show promise for enhancing safety and performance in the world of high-density-alti
Rotorcraft

Helo mod shop marks 25 years of design innovation

Twenty-five years ago, former Bell Helicopter engineer Frelon Tullos founded Heli-Dyne Systems in response to a market he recognized, one that his former e
FBOs

Jet-A supplies secure, even in event of war

Energy companies’ experience of the early-1990s Gulf War suggests that any sudden increase in oil prices owing to a new Iraq conflict might be brief, since
FBOs

France's Reims Aviation saved from bankruptcy

Reims Aviation, one of Europe’s few remaining independent light aircraft manufacturers and subcontractors, has been saved from bankruptcy.
FBOs

Jet Aviation sale scuttled in 'best interests' of firm

It has turned out to be one of the biggest deals in business aviation that never was.
Charter & Fractional

Sentient is finding its stride in membership block charter

Sentient, launched four years ago as a business aviation charter broker, is now second only to fractional-ownership giant NetJets in the number of business
Rotorcraft

S-92 and EH 101 grapple for honor of providing Marine One

Like its predecessors, it would be the most widely recognized helicopter in the world– the personal transport for the world’s most powerful leader, a leade
Rotorcraft

Say ‘Aloha’ to Hawaii by Helicopter

Heli-USA has taken a break from the usual Hawaiian air-tour repertoire of overflying thick jungles, pristine tropical rainforests, volcanoes surging with l
Rotorcraft

Initial testing of BA609 civil tiltrotor flawless

Successfully completing phase one of what will be the world’s first civil certification of a tiltrotor aircraft, veteran convertiplane pilot Roy Hopkins re
Rotorcraft

Other Voices: Heli-logging’s survival depends on cost control

After reading Bill Wagstaff’s article on heli-logging in AIN, I feel compelled to respond.
Rotorcraft

X-50A superhelo preps to make aviation history

As the month of May came to a close, a team of Boeing engineers were putting the finishing touches to a one-of-a-kind flying machine at an outpost of that
FBOs

BBA to buy Midcoast FBO at Lambert International

In its second acquisition of a Sabreliner division in less than a month, the UK’s BBA Group plans to purchase the Midcoast Aviation FBO at St.
FBOs

TAG acquires Signature charter sales network

TAG Aviation USA has purchased Signature Flight Support’s charter sales network based at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif., a business unit Signa
Airports

Salina's new runway to open this month

Originally planned as a parallel runway, the new 4,300-foot strip at Salina Airport, Kan., is now offset by one magnetic degree from the main Runway 17-35
FBOs

Jax will be the latest Jet Center location

The Jet Center Aviation Group recently announced it has signed a long-term lease with the airport authority at Jacksonville (Fla.) International Airport an
FBOs

Avitat Westchester deivers supplies airside

A recent innovation at Jet Systems/Avitat at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., is the customer commissary van.