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“This year’s Heli-Expo is a rousing success before we even open the doors,” said HAI president Matt Zuccaro at a press conference just before the ribbon-cu

The U.S.

Panalpina is showing a video at its Heli-Expo booth (No.

“You’re in the noisiest seat of the airplane,” said ATR North America sales vice president to an AIN reporter, who had chosen the position to assess that v

No one has kept the Flyer aloft for more than a minute, not even the Wright brothers.

Flight and navigation technology can help pilots see and avoid threats, simplify cockpit management and know their situation and parameters with precision.

On January 25 the NTSB Office of Aviation Safety presented a special investigation report on EMS and helicopter EMS (HEMS) operations, attributing a number

Less than 10 percent of an aircraft accident investigation takes place at the scene.

Najeeb (Jeeb) Halaby, FAA Administrator, Sept.

Tuesday, September 11• DOT Secretary Norman Mineta, via the FAA, ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the National Airspace Syst

“The FAA, and the IRS…they really don’t think alike,” began tax attorney Gary Garofalo, first speaker at the NBAA Federal Aviation Tax Forum in Arlington,

Above the Indian Spring Country Club in Silver Spring, Md., the rain and low ceiling cleared from overcast to broken, and then the cold mist lingered.

As the National Airspace System (NAS) has reopened in phases, so have the Department of Transportation (DOT) and FAA clarified in increments the sequence o

Cropdusters fondly call their craft the back-and-forth business.

On October 11 the House small business subcommittee on regulatory reform and oversight considered the financial hit to small aviation business from restric

The regional NBAA forum at West Palm Beach International (PBI), Fla., on March 10 served a slice of business aviation with complex ingredients.

At Dare County Regional Airport (MQI), N.C., Hank Stock grabs an armload of North Carolina aeronautical charts, centennial year edition, from among thousan

Some four billion passengers flew in the Boeing 727 fleet before most were retired from passenger service or converted to freight haulers.

Stephen Hickok of Hickok & Associates, Orange Beach, Ala., announced on Thursday that the FAA performed a successful flight inspection on February 23 o

Satellite Technology International (Booth No.

Atlantis Systems International (ASI) of Ottawa, Ontario, has developed what it calls a helicopter vocational trainer for autorotation (HVT) and is demonstr

Aerospace Integration Corp.

Barco introduced its MDU-2000 line of mission display units at Booth No.

Soloy Aviation Solutions of Olympia, Wash., announced at its booth (No.

Jet-Care International of Cedar Knolls, N.J., and its sister company Spectro of the UK and Switzerland, have won multi-year contracts to analyze engine oil

On October 29, AgustaWestland introduced the A119 Koala at its new home in Philadelphia, which includes 43,000 sq ft of hangars, avionics bays, manufacturi

On the first Saturday in February, despite record warmth, only two bicyclists and a Chicago police car took to the sloshy paths at what used to be Meigs Fi

In November, when SkyEurope began serving London and Paris from Budapest, Hungarian media mocked the carrier as fapados, meaning wooden bench–the painfully

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NASA once sprinkled its research monies throughout “a field of 1,000 flowers,” some of which would blossom.