The Boeing Company and Schiebel Industries AG of Austria today announced they have signed a teaming agreement to pursue marketing and support opportunities for Schiebel’s S-100 CAMCOPTER
Source: http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=786, 12-Aug-09
M onths of hard work and preparation are finally coming to fruition with the arrival of the AW139s and the first students at Valley.
Source: FB Heliservices, 12-Aug-09
The Boeing Company received a $500,000 contract from the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory on Aug. 5 to demonstrate the company’s A160T (YMQ-18A) Hummingbird for the Marines’ Immediate Cargo Unmanned Aerial System Demonstration Program.
Source: Boeing, 12-Aug-09
The FAA, she charged, has failed to make changes. “We believe if the recommendations were implemented, aviation safety would be improved,” the blunt-speaking Hersman said. She said 225 aircraft fly within 3 miles of the crash site every day, and pilots below 1,100 feet are free to choose their routes without monitoring from air-traffic controllers.
Source: NY Daily News, 12-Aug-09
Source: Anglia One, 12-Aug-09
Source: http://www.dsca.mil/pressreleases/36-b/2009/Thailand_09-49.pdf, 11-Aug-09
The Northrop Grumman Corporation-developedMQ-8B Fire Scout VTUAV recently completed flight tests aboard the USS McInerney. This is part of a series of shipboard evaluations leading to Operational Evaluation (OpEval) scheduled for this fall.
Source: Northrop Grumman, 11-Aug-09
Experts from the Illinois Department of Transportation will pore over stacks of statistics and tales of medical emergencies in trying to decide whether a heliport proposed for the new Lurie Children’s Hospital in Streeterville can be built.
Source: Chicago Tribune, 11-Aug-09
Flight hours for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 were 39,246, compared to 39,630 for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.
Source: PHI, 11-Aug-09
Vector Aerospace Corporation wishes to inform its customers and affected operators that they once again have a Canadian support alternative for Breeze Eastern Corporation products.
Source: Vertical, 11-Aug-09
The Wichita Falls Air Evac Lifeteam base opened to the public Saturday morning, giving tours of the newly renovated and more spacious facility.
Source: Times Record News, 11-Aug-09
AeroComputers Inc. is pleased to announce the successful completion of integration between the UC-5100 Digital Mapping System and the HD/IR sensor payload. This integration provides advanced mapping, geopointing and video switching capabilities.
Source: AeroComputers, 11-Aug-09
The Indonesian Military has ordered 6 Bell 412 helicopters while the National Search and Rescue Agency [Basarnas] ordered four
Source: Jakarta Post, 11-Aug-09
Source: Nebraska State Paper, 11-Aug-09
Source: NY Daily News, 11-Aug-09
The Austrian Ministry of Defence announced that a “Jet Ranger†helicopter has made the last flight of this helicopter type with the Austrian Army (Bundesheer) at the Hinterstoisser military airfield near Zeltweg, Austria. This marks the conclusion of 40 years of service and some 100,000 flight hours with the Austrian Army.
Source: DefPro, 11-Aug-09
Source: EcoWorldly, 10-Aug-09
Source: Chelton Flight Systems, 10-Aug-09
Source: AgustaWestland, 10-Aug-09
This Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)/Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW) configured aircraft is the first unit of the last AW101 batch for the service which has committed to a total of 24 AW101s.
Source: AgustaWestland, 10-Aug-09
Source: Frost & Sullivan, 10-Aug-09
Source: Sikorsky, 10-Aug-09
Source: Continental, 10-Aug-09
A Maryland State Police Aviation Command crew has been honored for a daring December 2008 rescue which utilized American Eurocopter’s Dauphin AS365 when a broken water main left several vehicles trapped in three-to-four feet of swiftly-flowing water.
Source: American Eurocopter, 07-Aug-09
A Navy helicopter thumped low over Pensacola on Wednesday, making its final flight before landing in the National Naval Aviation Museum’s parking lot to take its place in history. At a ceremony Thursday morning, the museum officially unveiled “Venom 500” an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter that has been in continuous duty with the Navy since 1986.
Source: http://www.pnj.com/article/20090731/NEWS01/907310335, 07-Aug-09
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall were at the airfield to present operational service medals to more than 100 soldiers from 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (AAC).
Source: Bury Free Press, 06-Aug-09
The MTR390-E (Enhanced) engine will equip the French-Spanish HAD variant, as well as the German UHT variant (for the last 16 UHTs).
Source: Rotorhub, 05-Aug-09
A re-engineered version of HAL’s Cheetah, the Turbomeca TM333-2M2-powered aircraft delivers increased range, endurance and payload
Source: Flightglobal, 04-Aug-09
Australia is still to make decisions on whether it uses traditional capital acquisition or public private partnership (PPP) methods to finance its planned Project Air 9000 phase 7 helicopter training system requirement.
Source: Rotorhub, 04-Aug-09
Gary C. Robb of Kansas City’s Robb & Robb, LLC delivered an address on Monday, July 27, 2009 on “Litigating a Helicopter Crash Case” to the Aviation Law Section at the Annual Convention of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), held in San Francisco, California.
Source: Robb & Robb, 03-Aug-09
July, 24 was held the official visit of two important visitors on the Kazan helicopter plant. The Interest to manufacture of the world famous helicopters of mark “Mi” and ANSAT was shown by the mayor of the city of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and the mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas.
Source: Kazan, 31-Jul-09
Source: Nexter, 31-Jul-09
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank today ordered transferring of 21 hectares land in Joshimath area to Chamoli district administration for the construction of a helipad, stadium and an auditorium.
Source: PTI, 31-Jul-09
Governor Stuart Jack asked the Auditor General Dan Duguay in September to undertake an investigation into the purchase of the helicopter. Mr. Duguay found that there was no clear documentation of what the required operational capabilities of the helicopter should be, and limited communication between the police and the Civil Aviation Authority about the helicopter.
Source: Cay Compass, 31-Jul-09
The CH-53K’s engine, the GE38, took center stage at a ceremony held at General Electric in Lynn, Mass., last week.
Source: Rotorhub, 31-Jul-09
iPhone and iPod Touch users can soon download Pilot My-Cast by Garmin, a premier cell phone application that provides critical aviation weather data, flight planning and flight filing services to U.S. and Canadian based subscribers.
Source: Garmin, 31-Jul-09
Source: Sikorsky, 31-Jul-09
China’s newest attack helicopter is powered by Canadian-built engines, a development military analysts say could spark a backlash against Canada’s aerospace industry from U.S. lawmakers concerned about technology being transferred into the wrong hands.
Source: Canada.com, 31-Jul-09
DART Helicopter Services announces that their subsidiary partner Apical Industries has received ANAC approval for their AS350 Cable Cutters Kit in Brazil. Transport Canada, FAA and EASA approvals have been previously received.
Source: Vertical, 31-Jul-09
