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DeCrane plans to deliver 512-Kbps linkup by 2002

When DeCrane Aviation formally introduced its new e-Cabin.Connect program to develop true in-flight high-speed Internet access, it was met with cheers by m
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Sat-TV for the cabin from Rosen

Rosen Products of Eugene, Ore., is making a splash in the new product pool with the announcement of the integration of Honeywell’s OneView satellite-direct
Avionics

Inmarsat Introduces Swift64 Airborne Data Services

Inmarsat announced that its long-awaited high-speed airborne data services will be available by the end of the year.
Avionics

Honeywell and Thales Deliver First MCS-7000 Satcom

For operators clamoring to take full advantage of Inmarsat’s new Swift64 airborne data service, Honeywell and Thales announced that the new MCS-7000 satcom
Avionics

FAA Seeking Bids for Nexcom Deployment

The FAA later this year will begin asking avionics makers to submit bids for competitive contracts to produce prototype radio interface units (RIU) and gro
Avionics

Duncan Aviation Publishes RVSM Guidebook

Duncan Aviation, the Lincoln, Neb.
Avionics

ISS Developing RVSM Packages for Six More Business Aircraft

Innovative Solutions & Support continues its aggressive certification schedule for RVSM equipment for business aircraft.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Baker Unveils Mini-DVD Player

Baker Electronics has introduced a miniature multi-region DVD player that measures 2.5 in.
Avionics

Honeywell e-mail trials use Iridium satellite link

Honeywell is now demonstrating its Inflightmail airborne e-mail service aboard the company’s Citation V.
Avionics

Primus Epic retrofit brings latest tech to older panels

Honeywell is on the verge of gaining FAA certification approval for retrofit versions of its Primus Epic integrated avionics suite.
Avionics

Proposed new FAA policy could revolutionize helo ops

A little known FAA policy statement, dated June 1 of this year, stands to dramatically change the helicopter industry as we know it.
Rotorcraft

Carroll Suggs Sells Off Controlling Interest in PHI

An era has ended in the helicopter offshore oil-support business with Carroll Suggs, wife of Petroleum Helicopters Inc.
Accidents

Columbia Helicopters BV-107 Crash Claims Three

A Boeing Vertol BV-107 operated by Columbia Helicopters of Portland, Ore., crashed in August during a maintenance check flight in southern Montana, killing
Rotorcraft

Bell Announces Layoffs

Bell Helicopter Textron last month announced plans to lay off 270 workers at its Fort Worth-area plants.
Rotorcraft

Helicopter Plan Enrages North Sea Rescue Vessel Operators

For those toiling for oil on the roiling North Sea, the stormy nature of that piece of water keeps the possibility of rescue constantly in mind.
Rotorcraft

Rejuvenated MD Helicopters looks toward a brighter future

After less than three years as a stand-alone company, MD Helicopters Inc.
FBOs

News Note: Gloucestershire Airport looking for new FBO

Gloucestershire Airport in the southwest of England wants to attract a new FBO to handle its increasing volume of corporate aircraft traffic.
ATC

News Note: Eurocontrol activates new Netherlands operations facility

Eurocontrol’s upper-area control center at Maastricht in the Netherlands on November 3 activated its new operations facility, which includes an advanced op
Training and Workforce

Contract pilots’ group widens scope

Independent pilots have been joined by flight attendants and mechanics in the newly renamed Independent Contract Aviation Professionals of America associat
Engines

News Note: Turbomeca boosts customer-support

Turbomeca has boosted its customer-support operation, increasing its team of field-service representatives to 40 and its service centers to 23.
Security

New York’s flying finest cope with post-Sept. 11 realities

More than a year later, southern Manhattan still seems scarred, incomplete; the variegated skyline stretching the length of the island seems an archite
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Stevens sees future in King Air 200 upgrades

Armed with the largest single contract in its 52-year history–converting 19 U.S.
Accidents

Fokker 50 crash in Luxembourg kills 20

A Luxair Fokker 50 twin turboprop crashed on approach to Luxembourg Findel Airport on November 6, killing 20 of the 22 people on board.
Maintenance and Modifications

Handheld unit detects flaws in composite structures

NDT International has developed a smaller, less expensive way of providing C-scan images of bond flaws in composites and honeycomb structures.
Charter & Fractional

Shell buys into Flexjet Asia program

Shell Aircraft International has signed a multi-year block-charter contract with Rainbow Jet of Beijing, China, under the auspices of Bombardier’s Flexjet
Aircraft

In The Works Analysis: Startup OEMs scratch for financing

This year and last were not kind to the startup airplane manufacturers, those OEM wannabes that are–or in some cases were–attempting to grab the brass ring
Aircraft

Big Jet Rolls Into Big Apple

Brazil’s Embraer celebrated the first anniversary of its listing on the New York Stock Exchange by taking its ERJ-190 road show to the Big Apple’s Rockefel
Cabin Interior and Electronics

News Note: IEC International acquired in buyout

Cabin-management and entertainment system specialist IEC International has been acquired in a management buyout led by sales and marketing v-p Chris Nichol
Engines

Regionals Update: AVIC I selects GE to power ARJ21 regional jet

China’s AVIC I Commercial Aircraft Co.