Content Archive: February 2009

Honeywell hedges market bottom

 Honeywell’s annual market forecast for civil turbine-powered helicopters released Saturday is still predicting flat to slightly higher deliveries bet

Whirly-Girls winners split $25,000 in scholarships

At its annual scholarship banquet here on Friday evening, Whirly-Girls International presented scholarships worth a total value of more than $25,000 to six

A hot idea for RR 250 could cut fuel burn by 40%

Savings of up to 40 percent on jet fuel for the Rolls-Royce 250 turbine-engine family? That is the prospect offered by Frontline Aerospace, said company CE

L-3 EVS certified for B206/407

Precise Flight of Bend, Ore., has received a supplemental type certificate for an L-3 Communications Iris infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) and its own

Van Horn Blade Enhances 206B

Van Horn Associates (Booth No, 2012) said it completed flight testing of a new composite carbon fiber spar and skin tail rotor blade for the Bell 206B earl

Carson S-61s get glass cockpits

Carson Helicopter Services, Sagem Avionics and Vector Aerospace will jointly celebrate a supplemental type certificate issued to Carson for a five-display

Bell 429 certification slips again

The projected certification date for Bell’s new 429 light twin has slipped again.

Heli-Expo’09 defies gravity

As a wave of negative signs points to evidence of a prolonged economic downturn, perhaps the biggest surprise at the start of Heli-Expo’09 is how packed th

NTSB hearings only the start of broad HEMS safety review

At the conclusion of four days of National Transportation Safety Board public hearings on the safety of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) operat