Content Archive: August 2008

Maintenance and Modifications

Plastek Launches Acrylic Window Restoration System

Last week at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., Plastek CEO Gus Ordonez announced a version of the company’s military window repair and restoration kit for t

EAA AirVenture 2003 - Celebrating the centennial

If Paris is the Big Daddy of airshows–high-powered, straight-laced and eminently button-down–then Oshkosh is the Big Mamma, her arms open wide as the W
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update:Enstrom scores biggest sale ever

Mere months after a corporate shakeup rocked Enstrom Helicopter to the roots of its mahogany row, the Menominee, Mich.-based rotorcraft manufacturer celebr
Rotorcraft

EC 225 clearing hurdles; certification slips to 2004

Eurocopter now hopes to obtain certification for its EC 225 by early next year instead of in the third quarter of this year, as previously stated.

TacitView helps sift the wheat from the chaff

With the proliferation of UAVs greatly increasing the number of “eyes in the sky,” the flow of video imagery streaming into intelligence centers is turning
FBOs

Morristown, N.J. facility tries reversing the paradigm

Win Perkins doesn’t have much patience for the traditional FBO business plan.
Aircraft

Rotax-powered Ellipse goes 200 knots

Dwarfed by other aircraft in the static display area, the LH-10 Ellipse is only 17 feet long and has a wingspan of just over 26 feet.
Regulations and Government

FAA's goal-setting go-getter: a look at Blakey's first year

On September 13, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey will have completed the first year of her five-year tenure in the position.

New president at Piaggio America

Veteran de Havilland Canada and Bombardier executive Tom Appleton takes over as president and CEO of Greenville, S.C.-based Piaggio America as of September