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Convention Clips: AeroCourier notches 20-aircraft launch order

AeroCourier Group announced it received a launch order for 20 aircraft from AirShares Elite.
Security

Convention Clips: Global Express, BBJ may get missile spoofers

Total Aircraft Services is exploring the possibility of STCs to install BAE Systems’ Matador infrared missile countermeasure equipment on corporate jets su
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Convention Clips: Teledyne tapped to provide airborne e-services

An alliance between Teledyne Controls and DeCrane Aircraft Holdings sets the stage for Teledyne to provide service subscriptions for DeCrane’s developmenta
Avionics

Convention Clips: Flight Explorer makes debut on the flight deck

In a preview of what the FAA has in store for pilots with the introduction of Free Flight, a new “wireless to the cockpit” aircraft situation display is in
Avionics

Convention Clips: FlightView update allows aircraft tagging

Boston-based RLM Software previewed a version of its FlightView flight-tracking software used by operations professionals at corporate aviation departments
ATC

FAA puts JPDO on a ‘much shorter leash’

There are signs that Washington has acquired a sense of urgency (long past due, some would say) about the disarray that has thus far stalled progress on AT
Avionics

L-3 SmartDeck Gets TSO and STC OKs

L-3 Avionics received TSO and STC approval from the FAA for its SmartDeck integrated avionics system.
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky Gives X2 a Whirl

Sikorsky continues to inch toward flying its X2 technology demonstrator coaxial compound helicopter for the first time at its R&D and test facility in Hors
FBOs

Jet Aviation Expanding Westward

Zurich, Switzerland-based Jet Aviation signed a letter of intent with Ogden, Utah-based Kemp Development to open a Midcoast Aviation maintenance facility a
Avionics

Swift64 promises ISDN speed for airborne Web connections

The first commercially available airborne Internet link for business jets has arrived in the form of Swift64, a global satcom data service from Inmarsat de
Avionics

eFlight transforms aircraft into information nerve centers

Rockwell Collins announced that it is embarking on a mission to turn the cockpits and passenger compartments of business airplanes and regional airliners i
Cabin Interior and Electronics

News Note: Teac announces new servers for use in-flight entertainment

The airborne products division of Teac announced the availability of new “plug and play” digital file servers for use with the company’s in-flight entertai
Avionics

Avionics Update: Collins Pro Line 21 Continuum certified in Citation III

Rockwell Collins announced that its Pro Line 21 Continuum retrofit cockpit system has been certified in the Cessna Citation III, bringing to six the total
Avionics

Avionics Update: Collins tests first multi-mode microwave receiver

The first fully integrated multi-mode receiver (MMR) for use with microwave landing systems completed a series of successful test flights recently.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Airbus to offer Honeywell FMS in ACJ

Airbus Industrie has added the Honeywell Pegasus FMS to the options list in the Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ).
Avionics

Avionics Update: Socata picks Honeywell FIS

Socata plans to equip all new TBM 700 turboprops and Trinidad piston singles with Honeywell Bendix/King flight information service (FIS) hardware, bringing
Avionics

Avionics Update: Avidyne introduces weather for FlightMax

Avidyne’s FlightMax multifunction displays will soon be able to receive text and graphic weather information, transmitted to the airplane through the Orbco
Avionics

Avionics Update: Icarus introduces Iridium satphone

Icarus Instruments of Tokoma Park, Md., has introduced SatTalk II, a low-cost satcom system that uses the Iridium network of satellites to route calls arou
Avionics

Avionics Update: Qualcomm, Globalstar demonstrate airborne web technology

Neither company has a product that it intends to put on the market anytime soon, but both Qualcomm and Globalstar are demonstrating a satellite-based airbo
ATC

Bizav may be tapped to lead Free Flight tests

Despite recent events, the FAA is continuing its modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS), and controller-pilot datalink communication (CPDLC) r
ATC

DOT warns of serious risks to GPS signals

To counter the possibility of jammed and  “spoofed” signals, the authors of a U.S.
Rotorcraft

NYC helo operators fight for their future

The cancellation on October 12 of the three-mile temporary flight restriction (TFR 9841) encircling the World Trade Center, which had closed New York City’
Rotorcraft

CHC Scotia pilots win major North Sea wage concession

Averting a strike that would have shut down offshore helicopter operations throughout much of the North Sea, 200 helicopter pilots represented by the Briti
Safety

Rescue squabble revives NYC police, fire rivalry

On March 25, 1911, the worst factory fire in the history of New York City erupted in the three floors occupied by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in a tall
Safety

Safe Flight's device warns of 'hot' power lines

After three years of development and testing, Safe Flight Instrument’s “Powerline Detector” system for helicopters received FAA supplemental type certifica
Rotorcraft

Did newscopters skirt FAA ENG ban?

FAA enforcers are pondering whether to press charges in the wake of a November 7 incident in which some Dallas-area TV stations apparently bent (but, they
Accidents

Rotorcraft Update: Nepalese princess killed in helicopter crash

Just a few months after her estranged husband was fatally shot along with eight other members of the Nepalese royal family, Princess Prekshya Shah, 49, was
Safety

Rotorcraft Update: Tail cracks detected on MD 600Ns

MD Helicopters of Mesa, Ariz., said five MD 600Ns have exhibited cracks in the tailcone attachment area, and that an inspection bulletin is forthcoming to
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Third AB139 takes off

The third and final pre-production Bell/Agusta AB139 has begun its flight-test program at Agusta’s Vergiate plant in Italy.