Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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California-based cabin electronics supplier DPI Labs has signed a distribution agreement with Canada’s Ingenio Aerospace, allowing DPI to resell the Montreal-based company’s products to business aviation operators and MRO organizations worldwide.
DPI specializes in crew and passenger controls, LED cabin lighting, and entertainment systems for business and large VIP aircraft cabins. Ingenio designs and builds products such as USB chargers for the cabin and cockpit.
“Ingenio’s products greatly complement DPI Labs’ cabin systems,” said DPI chief executive Vicki Brown. “Our goal has always been to offer passengers a positive flying experience that stimulates all their senses, whether through cabin lighting, 4K video solutions, theater-quality audio, or intuitive cabin control.”
Brown explained that along with enhancing the “passenger experience,” DPI’s products can stand the test of time or undergo upgrading and service well into the future. “DPI Labs still services, supports, and upgrades our systems from as far back as three decades,” she noted.
“The systems we design and sell today not only include the latest audio-video technology such as Dolby Atmos and 4K video distribution cabin displays, but they have built-in measures to ensure upgradeability in the future. Ingenio Aerospace shares this vision of future-proofing aircraft cabins.”
Ingenio has won MFi approval from Apple for development and manufacturing of electronic accessories, said Ingenio CEO James Bell, calling the fact that the new Apple iPhone 15 Pro uses USB-C technology to charge “not only a game changer for consumers but even more so for the aviation industry.
“The fragmented connector market has inconvenienced consumers,” he explained. “However, it has been a high-cost issue in aviation, where products have been engineered, certified, and installed, only to become obsolete in a few years. The aircraft cabin can now be a completely USB-C-friendly environment, which allows us to fearlessly develop to the technology’s full potential, including high-speed data transfer, audio and video distribution, and increased power output.”
Showgoers can see Ingenio’s products installed in DPI Labs’ demonstration van at its booth in the Central Hall.

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