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AIN Blog: Gadgets Are Great
Heli-Expo 2012 featured plenty of gadgets for the tech-savvy.
The Trakkabeam A800 is half the size of traditional searchlights to deliver a more intense and consistent beam on target. (Photo: Kirby J. Harrison)
The Trakkabeam A800 is half the size of traditional searchlights to deliver a more intense and consistent beam on target. (Photo: Kirby J. Harrison)

The average business aviation trade show is a world of gadgets. Hundreds of them. Some lesser, some greater. Some large, some small. Some serious, and at the same time downright amusing, depending on your perspective. Heli-Expo 2012, held earlier this month in Dallas, had its share of gadgets, and I use that term rather loosely, with a certain poetic license.

I liked the Trakkabeam A800 from Trakkabeam Tactical Searchlights, if for no other reason than it just sounds cool. And the name also describes what the company does. Makes it easy to find; a concept that apparently eludes some marketing mavens.