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Avionics Update: AirCell to market cockpit weather service
Airborne cellular communications provider AirCell has announced a partnership with Control Vision, a Pittsburg, Kan.
Avionics
Start of datalink test buoys ATC modernization efforts
Maneuvering over Southern Florida and through busy Miami airspace on a classically warm and convective Thursday in March, an FAA test airplane spent severa
Avionics
Falcon 20 sharpens its talons with Pro Line 21 upgrade
Garrett Aviation has completed installation of the first Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Continuum retrofit avionics system in a Falcon 20.
Avionics
A ‘Swift’ concept brings Web inside the business jet cabin
Inmarsat last month announced the commercial availability of the new Swift64 mobile data pipeline, an airborne satellite Internet service that the company
Avionics
EMS Technologies is next in line for Swift64 hardware approval
At press time EMS Technologies’ satcom division in Ottawa, Ontario, was set to become the second approved hardware retailer for the Swift64 service.
Avionics
Eight (new technologies) in one (737-900)
Boeing has installed the following eight new technologies in its 737-900 Technology Demonstrator:• Synthetic vision system (SVS)
ATC
DOT/DOD releases its latest federal radionavigation plan
Other than the occasional contradiction, the recently released federal radionavigation plan (FRP) reveals few surprises.
Avionics
Meggitt Magic autopilot keeps turboprops flying
Seeking to establish a firmer foothold in the avionics retrofit market, Meggitt last month introduced a new digital flight control system for older turbopr
ATC
Boeing’s futuristic air traffic plan goes back to the basics
When Boeing unveiled its air traffic management (ATM) plan last June, it presented a future world of advanced communication, navigation and surveillance te
Accidents
Rotocraft Update: Turbomeca demo flight kills two
A Eurocopter AS 350 helicopter crashed at the Tarnos, France factory of engine maker Turbomeca on March 26, killing company test pilot Eric Fortier, 41, an
Rotorcraft
Rotorcraft Update: Good news for Long Island east enders
Once asked his opinion of the almost 200-mi island stretching from the towers of Manhattan to the wet salt marshes and massive summer homes that are the pl
Accidents
Rotorcraft Update: PHI accident claims pilot
Petroleum Helicopters pilot Charles Getchell, 56, of Milton, Fla.
Rotorcraft
Rotorcraft Update: It's a gas
In certain oil-rich regions of Russia and its federated republics, natural gas is so abundant that it is treated as a waste product of the crude-oil extrac
Rotorcraft
Rotocraft Update: Hold that Tiger
Just weeks after proclaiming its market dominance at HAI’s Heli-Expo 2002, Eurocopter took a hit in its sales column with the news that France and Germany
Maintenance and Modifications
Midcoast To Upgrade Falcon 50s
Premier Aircraft, a joint venture between West Star Aviation and Yankee Pacific Aerospace, has named Midcoast Aviation as an authorized distributor for 50D
Charter & Fractional
Skylliance Charter Adds Two New Members
Skylliance, the charter jet program of Jet Aviation, announced here that it will add JetNetherlands and Elite Jets of Dubai, effective June 1.
Maintenance and Modifications
VIP Boeing 757s Get Aviation Partner Winglets
No fewer than 10 Boeing 757-200s–both VIP and head-of-state aircraft–now benefit from Aviation Partners’ Performance Enhancing Blended Winglet Systems, th
Avionics
Primus Apex for Viking Twin Otters
Viking Twin Otter series 400 airplanes will be equipped with an integrated suite of Primus Apex avionics from Honeywell Aerospace.
FBOs
ExecuJet looks east for new opportunity
The Swiss-based business aviation sales and services provider ExecuJet announced at EBACE on Monday the opening of new offices in Moscow, Mumbai and Beijin
Rotorcraft
Sikorsky’s S-92 program homes in on certification
It’s been a busy month for Sikorsky’s S-92 development team as the project moves toward approval by year-end.
Rotorcraft
P&WC allies with Russian companies
Pratt & Whitney Canada and Helicopters of Russia last week signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Moscow to produce the PW127TS engine for Russia’s
Rotorcraft
Bell/Agusta civil tiltrotor 'suspended', not 'canceled'
As spring flooded north along America’s Atlantic seaboard, news from the tiltrotor front began to improve somewhat.
Rotorcraft
HAL helo deliveries mark program progress
There is an insect called a cicada that burrows deep into the earth in its larval stage, slowly, quietly growing out of sight, feeding modestly on tree roo
Cabin Interior and Electronics
EMTEQ Purchases Cable Technologies
New Berlin, Wisconsin-based EMTEQ (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
CompletionAir, Premier Air merge at St. Louis
With the February cash acquisition of Premier Air Center, CompletionAir’s founders and three unidentified investors have captured a major piece of the busi
Regulations and Government
Time left to comment on LGA capacity proposals
Based on projections that airline flights at New York La Guardia Airport won’t return to their pre-September levels until the end of this summer, the FAA h
