Harry Weisberger
Contributor

Since 1986 Harry Weisberger has been a contributor to Aviation International News and a regular member of its HAI and NBAA convention news editorial staff. He was previously a marketing communications specialist for Sperry Flight Systems in Phoenix, providing information involving the general aviation, airline, defense and space market segments. His aviation journalism activity has also included writing and editing for Flight Training, Business Aviation Safety Journal, Private Pilot and Arizona Flyways (for whom he interviewed Barry Goldwater and Paul Tibbets. He has also contributed to Smithsonian Air & Space and Aero magazines. He served 5-1/2 years on active duty with the U.S. Navy as a radar intercept officer in F4 Phantom jet fighters, followed by Naval Air Reserve duty as a patrol plane navigator. Weisberger’s journalism career began at the Santa Ana Register (now Orange County Register) where he was a beat reporter and copy desk editor. He holds a commercial pilot license with instrument rating, has logged 1,980 pilot hours and has owned or been a partner in five general aviation aircraft.

Latest from Harry Weisberger

Avionics

Sandel delivers its first HeliTAWS

Sandel Avionics, Vista, Calif., has gained TSO and Part 27 supplemental type certificate (STC) approvals for its ­class-A HeliTAWS helicopter terrain avoid
Cabin Interior and Electronics

JetNet offers aircraft info for smartphones

  Bizav data provider JetNet is unveiling and demonstrating a new smartphone app for accessing its Evolution database.
Avionics

EASA OKs G1000 for King Air

Danish Hawker and Beech specialist Scandinavian Aircraft Technologies (ScanTech) is coordinating EASA approval of
Avionics

Max-Viz, One Sky offer EVS discounts

Max-Viz, the Portland, Ore.-area infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) manufacturer, and One Sky Aviation of Anchorage, Alaska, have teamed to offer a mini
Avionics

FAA doesn’t understand Wi-Fi for bizav, say suppliers

With the increasing use of BlackBerrys, iPhones and other personal electronic devices, business aircraft operators now have several options for full-time a
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar: Agency SMS

SMS is not just for airlines and corporate aviation, as John David, Nav Canada v-p for safety and quality, explained.
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar: SMS Implementation Tools

Several of the most influential corporate aviation organizations offer specific tools to assist in implementation of SMS programs, according to John Sheeha
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar: Speakers shine spotlight on importance of SMS, FOQA

sMS (safety management systems) and FOQA (flight operations quality assurance) are no longer just buzzwords, said Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) president
Maintenance and Modifications

Hawker Beechcraft opens service facility at Phoenix

Hawker Beechcraft Services (HBS) opened the doors of its southwest U.S.
Avionics

ICG, Cobham certify dual-use Sora satcom

International Communications Group (ICG) and Cobham Antenna Systems have been granted an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) for a dual-network satcom
Avionics

IS&S receives STC approval for Eclipse cockpit upgrade

Innovative Solutions and Support (IS&S) has added electronic chart and XM satellite weather display to the avionics upgrade it provides for the Eclipse

Cobham adds SAS for light helicopters

Cobham Avionics, specifically the former S-Tec autopilot house in Mineral Wells, Texas, yesterday described the functions, features and financial benefits

For new Sagem CEO, it’s all about customers

Larry Alexandre, recently named CEO of Sagem Avionics after five years as COO for Turbomeca USA, acknowledges that he has much to learn about avionics but

Trilogy backup offers attitude, altitude, airspeed

L-3 Avionics’s Trilogy electronic standby instrument received TSO approval from the FAA for use on Part 27 and Part 29 rotary-wing aircraft, according to t

Hickok’s approach takes helicopters even lower

In 1994 Steve Hickok began the initial flight tests that led to development and implementation of the first FAA-approved GPS Rnav helicopter instrument app

Garmin introduces glass cockpit for helos

Garmin unveiled yesterday at Heli-Expo 2010 the G500H avionics system, specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market.Jim Alpiser, Garmin’s

Thommen spotlights redone Russian searchlight system

Revue Thommen, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of aircraft instruments, air-data systems and components, is at Booth No.

Universal eyes larger rotary world presence

Universal Avionics Systems, long known primarily for innovation in fixed-wing flight management systems (FMS) and electronic displays, is in Houston this w

Becker to raffle off one of its new PLBs

Becker Avionics is at Heli-Expo 2010 featuring its newly introduced personal locator beacon (PLB) offering multiple VHF/UHF emergency band operation.

International interest spurs Max-Viz sales

Max-Viz, a designer and manufacturer of enhanced vision systems (EVS) with uncooled infrared sensors for airborne applications, is at Heli-Expo’10 (Booth N

Sandel H-Taws nears certification

Sandel Avionics is concluding certification flight testing of its helicopter-specific terrain awareness warning system and plans delivery of the H-Taws sho
Avionics

Sandel’s helo Taws nears certification finish line

Sandel Avionics is concluding certification flight testing of its helicopter-specific terrain awareness warning system and plans delivery of the $18,950 H-
Aircraft

Aerion envisions SSBJs plying ME skies

Aerion is here in Dubai to tap what it believes could be strong market for the supersonic business jet (SSBJ) it intends to have certified in 2015.
Avionics

CMC goes into new FronTier

CMC Electronics is buoyed by recent selections of its new infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS), satellite communications antennas and electronic flight ba
Aircraft

CMC goes into new FronTier

CMC Electronics is buoyed by recent selections of its new infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS), satellite communications antennas and electronic flight ba
Avionics

ACSS sees brighter skies ahead

ACSS, the Phoenix-based surveillance and reconnaissance technology division of L-3 Communications (Booth No.
Aircraft

Supersonic bizjet designers troll for manufacturing partners

If paper was aluminum, glass and titanium instead of just paper, two Nevada-based groups developing supersonic business jet designs would have revolutionar
Training and Workforce

SimuFlite’s online courses target pilots and techs

At NBAA’09, CAE SimuFlite (Booth No.
Avionics

Sandel helicopter TAWS takes flight

Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif., has begun pre-certification flight testing of a helicopter-specific terrain avoidance warning system based on its fixed-w
FBOs

Meridian toughing it out in tight charter market

The Meridian Companies at Teterboro Airport come to Orlando epitomizing the old saw that “when times get tough the tough get going.” The Meridian NBAA boot