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
Airports
Los Angeles floats plan to save El Toro Airport
Chances of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Orange County, Calif., becoming a vital part of the National Airspace System–seemingly killed by
Maintenance and Modifications
Engines and avionics are Garrett's focus
Garrett Aviation Services (Booth No.
Avionics
Sandel's TAWS is needed to meet demand: Block
Calling the market entry of his company’s ST3400 TAWS (terrain awareness and warning system) in June a needed boost to the avionics industry’s capacity, Ge
Charter & Fractional
ShareJet brings frax to Far East
A Japanese industrial trading company and a U.S.
GE takes a three-year view of business aviation scene
General Electric, the global giant with $126 billion in annual revenue, is at NBAA ’02 (Booth No.
Engines
P&WC's president has diversified view
After four months on the job as president of Pratt & Whitney Canada, Alain Bellemare intends to guide a company that becomes increasingly global in nature
Avionics
SureSight has OEM buyer
A “major bizjet manufacturer” will announce here at the NBAA show that it has selected CMC Electronics’ SureSight enhanced vision system (EVS) for inclusio
Avionics
Garrett installs GIII Primus Epic retrofit
Garrett Aviation has completed its first installation of Honeywell’s integrated display system–known as the Primus Epic control display system/retrofit (CD
Engines
P&WC reports on its PW600 series plans
Pratt & Whitney Canada announced last year at NBAA 2000 that it had embarked on development of a new line of turboprop, turboshaft and turbofan engines
Avionics
Rockwell Collins traces its spirit of innovation to a rich heritage
A business is an institution when one of a city’s major thoroughfares and one of its fine hotels bears its name.
Engines
Engine programs on track at Honeywell
Through mid-September, the Honeywell AS907 engine program had logged more than 3,500 hr of configuration testing and over 8,000 hr of total test time inclu
Avionics
New display, retrofits on tap at Honeywell
Honeywell is marketing a variety of new avionics products including a new-technology cockpit electronic display, a new satcom system and a pair of retrofit
Engines
Garrett offers engine and panel upgrades
Garrett Aviation Services has extended its maintenance-cost-per-hour (MCPH) program to CJ610 turbojet engines on Learjet 20 series aircraft.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Collins system sorts cabin/cockpit e-data
Rockwell Collins is banking on its new digital data acquisition, distribution and display architecture, called eFlight, to coordinate a wide range of in-fl
Avionics
First phase of Cockpit 1 unveiled
Universal Avionics has unveiled the first phase of its new synthetic-vision cockpit avionics suite, Cockpit 1, which features large flat-panel integrated d
Finance, Taxes, Insurance
Travelers jumps into aviation with both feet
Travelers Aviation, part of The Travelers insurance company, made its debut at the 2007 AIA convention at Indian Wells, Calif.
Airports
Conference stresses building relationships with neighbors
Local airport advocacy, airport preservation and security, airspace access and ATC modernization were among the concerns of attendees at the American Assoc
Avionics
Honeywell digital radios set to make bizav debut
Honeywell’s aerospace electronic systems group is beginning the year by unveiling new technology that holds the promise of doing to conventional navcom rad
Engines
TFE731 makes history with 10,000th delivery
In the ever-fluid world of aerospace, to build and deliver a thousand of any major aircraft system is a milestone worthy of note.
Airports
El Toro backers will fight Measure W
California’s March 5 primary vote that nixed plans for a civil airport at the former El Toro Marine Air Station was a body blow to the FAA’s Operational Ev
Rotorcraft
Rejuvenated MD Helicopters looks toward a brighter future
After less than three years as a stand-alone company, MD Helicopters Inc.
Training and Workforce
Flight school uses Web to become ‘satellite campus’
Phoenix-based Westwind School of Aeronautics has teamed with SkyWest Airlines and Utah Valley State College (UVSC) in a program under which ab initio fligh
Security
Banner-tow ban could set perilous precedent
A ban by the coastal California city of Huntington Beach on all aerial advertising flights in its airspace is believed to be the first of its kind in the U
Avionics
Goodrich’s LandMark TAWS chosen for Cessna’s new CJ3
Goodrich announced during last month’s NBAA Convention the long-anticipated receipt of TSO and STC approvals for its LandMark terrain awareness and warning
Accidents
Chain of events led to midair over California
The long-delayed NTSB factual report on the Oct.
