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| 09.01.2009 |
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Feedback
Clarification The caption for the image on pages 26 and 27 of the August 2009 issue stated that it was an unmanned K-MAX aerial truck. Several people wrote in to point out that, in fact, there was a person on...
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Rotorcraft Report: EADS LUH Platform Meets Key U.S. Army Armed Aerial Scout Profile
MILITARY A standard, commercial EC145, the platform that serves as the baseline for the UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), has completed a series of successful high/hot flight demonstrations. These...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Canada Places Order for 15 New CH-47F Chinooks
MILITARY Boeing has obtained a $1.15-billion contract for 15 new CH-47F Chinook heavy lift helicopters from the Canadian government. As part of the agreement, Boeing will partner with Canadian companies and...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Night Flight Concepts, Gladstone Team Up
PRODUCTS Gladstone Aerospace (GAC) of Ottawa, Ontario has established a strategic business alliance with Night Flight Concepts (NFC). The goal of the partnership is to "leverage each [other’s]...
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Rotorcraft Report: Alaska CAP to Use FLIR EVS
PRODUCTS Portland, Ore.-based FLIR Systems has received an order for 20 enhanced vision system (EVS3) cameras from the Alaska Civil Air Patrol (CAP). The...
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Rotorcraft Report: Certs for URS, Ahlers
SERVICES The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has issued CAR 35 approval for United Rotorcraft Solutions and Ahlers Aerospace night vision lighting modifications on the...
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Rotorcraft Report: Camcopter Partnership
MILITARY A new division Boeing Co. has created to capitalize on the boom in unmanned vehicles announced Aug. 11 it is teaming with Schiebel Industries AG to offer the tiny Austrian firm’s Camcopter S-100...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Pitfalls of Applying Part 135 to EMS Operations
Rep. John Salazar (D-CO) introduced the Air Medical Safety Act, HR 1201, to the U.S. Congress on Feb. 25, 2009. The bill requires, in part, "a pilot of an...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Meet the Contributors
CHARLOTTE ADAMS covers aviation and defense technology. She has written for Aviation Maintenance and was the editor-in-chief of Avionics . She also writes for the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Sikorsky Delivers Training S-300C to UND Aerospace
TRAINING Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky’s Global Helicopters unit in Horseheads, N.Y. has handed over an S-300C to the University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences (UND...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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(Better) Seat of the Pants Flying
For Air Force operators occupying the 19 control stations aboard USAF Boeing E-3 Sentrys, 12-to-14-hour missions will become a bit more comfortable after new ergonomically designed seats are installed on the fleet. This Airborne Warning and Control System...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks August 01, 2009 West Point, VA BEECH B90 N1999G A/c operated by Rampart Aviation substantially damaged during skydive flight from Middle Peninsula Regional Airport (FYJ). Flight departed and climbed to 14,000...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Lockheed Martin Test Bed Gets FAA OK
An intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) test bed from Lockheed Martin received an Experimental Air Worthiness Certificate from FAA. The company said its Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory (AML), which is a reconfigured...
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| 08.27.2009 |
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Sikorsky Tests Active Rotor System
Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky Aircraft and the Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) have initiated whirl tests on a demonstration rotor system that uses active...
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| 08.27.2009 |
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Parts Anti-Counterfeiting Measures Pursued
ARINC of Annapolis, Md. plans to introduce a range of new concepts that Department of Defense could use to detect counterfeit electronics and reduce the...
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| 08.26.2009 |
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One More Day to Sign Up
This year has seen some of the worst controversies surrounding aviation safety in more than a decade as analysts debate the impact of such accidents as Colgan Flight 3407, the subject of Senate hearings yesterday, as well as Air France 447. For that reason...
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| 08.26.2009 |
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CAE Wins New Contracts
CAE was awarded a series of military contracts with $91 million with Eurocopter, Airbus Military and L-3 Communications. For Eurocopter, CAE will perform major upgrades on two CAE-built CH-53 full-mission simulators operated at the German Army Aviation School...
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| 08.24.2009 |
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He Sounded Like 'Mickey Mouse'
A Cirrus SR-22 crashed July 30, 2009 in Ravenswood WV after the pilot---the sole occupant---apparently lost consciousness and flew hundreds of miles past the destination airport in Indiana. Air National Guard F-16 pilots who scrambled to intercept the errant...
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| 08.24.2009 |
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Giving Pilots Unobstructed Views
Members of the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron transparency shop at Robins AFB, GA has a "clear" mission: to ensure there are no blemishes in USAF Boeing F-15 Eagle canopies that could impact pilots' views. When the shop restores a canopy, it...
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| 08.24.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks July 11, 2009 Masizo del Roraima, Venezuela BEECH A36 N354RA The wreckage was located on the "Ilu - Tepuy" mountain, within the sector of Masizo del Roraima, Bolivar, Venezuela. Pilot had filed a...
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