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| 11.01.2009 |
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‘I Knew You Would Come’
In this issue you will find the winners of the 2009 Rotor & Wing Helicopter Heroism Awards. Being new to the rotor world, I have to say that reading these submissions and learning about the events for which our winners were chosen, left me awestruck. The...
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Rotorcraft Report: IHST Releases Recommendations to Reduce U.S. Helicopter Accidents
TRAINING/ACCIDENT PREVENTION U.S. helicopter accidents can be drastically reduced, and we have the fact-based recommendations to do it: That was the message at the International Helicopter Safety Symposium, held from Sept. 29-Oct. 2 in Montreal, Canada...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Bell Taps Kaman for Composites
PRODUCTS/COMPONENTS Kaman Aerospace’s Helicopters division has won a $53-million contract to supply composite helicopter...
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Rotorcraft Report: NSTB Investigates EMS Crash
PUBLIC SERVICE/EMS U.S. National Transportation Safety Board investigators are saying that an air medical helicopter that crashed in South Carolina on Sept. 25 did not have safety features recommended by experts. Three people—pilot Patrick Walters...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: MedCenter Air Orders Three EC135s
PUBLIC SERVICE/EMS Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas Medical Center has ordered three EC135s from American Eurocopter. The helicopters, which...
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Rotorcraft Report: Study Points to Improved EMS Procedures
TRAINING/EMS A MedEvac Foundation International study has found that five percent of urgent care patients experience a life-threatening event or, in rare cases, death while on air medical transport flights. Dr. Jeff Singh and co-author Dr. Russell MacDonald of...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: MissionMode to Serve Omniflight Fleet
PUBLIC SERVICE/EMS Omniflight Helicopters of Addison, Texas has selected MissionMode Solutions software to help with...
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Rotorcraft Report: SAR Awards Go to UK, Canadian Crews
PUBLIC SERVICE/SAR Two separate search and rescue (SAR) helicopter crews have been given awards in recent weeks. Sikorsky Aircraft has named an S-92 helicopter crew operating on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) the winner of its Winged...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Coming Events
November 15–19: Dubai Airshow, Dubai, UAE. Contact Fairs & Exhibitions, phone +9714-286-7755 or visit http://www.dubaiairshow.aero November 30–December 1: Human Factors in Aviation Safety, Los Angeles, Calif. Contact USC Viterbi School of...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Hot Products for the Month of November
FASTTrack Gets First Customer Calgary, Canada-based Absolute Fire Solutions has delivered its first FASTTrack system to Helicorp of Melbourne, Australia. The FASTTrack technology measures, records and transmits bucket and tank data, including the amount of...
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| 11.01.2009 |
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TAWS
PRODUCTS/AVIONICS & INSTRUMENTS Helicopter accidents, especially those involving emergency medical services (EMS) flights, have been getting a lot of bad, but well-deserved press recently. The increasing number of helicopter EMS (HEMS) fatalities has also...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Beyond Regulations
I hadn’t wanted to write such a serious piece on my second month as editor. But the Washington Post series called "Fatal Flights" that was published at the end of August and the...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Meet the Contributors
CHARLOTTE ADAMS covers aviation and defense technology. She has written for Aviation Maintenance magazine and was the editor-in-chief of Avionics . She also writes for the Armed Forces Communications and...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: New Weapon in Aviation Safety Wars
In its latest response to the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) industry’s flight record, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has added a new arrow to its quiver. The agency has...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Rotorcraft Report: People
DART Helicopter Services (DHS) has appointed Steven E. Joseph as general manager. He will also support DHS subsidiaries including Apical, Canam and Geneva Aviation. A former U.S. Marine Corps pilot and...
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Rotorcraft Report: Coming Events
October 19 – 20: 2nd International Forum on Rotorcraft Multidisciplinary Technology , Seoul, Korea. Contact AHS Intl, phone 1-703-684-6877 or visit www.vtol.org October 20 – 22: National Business Aviation...
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Rotorcraft Report: Oct. 29 Webinar to Focus on HEMS
Aviation Today is hosting a webinar — scheduled for 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29 — that asks some of the world’s top helicopter air safety experts to provide a realistic...
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Rotorcraft Report: Sandel to Conduct HTAWS Trials
Vista, Calif.-based Sandel Avionics is preparing to carry out flight tests on its helicopter terrain awareness and warning system (HTAWS) at Corporate...
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| 10.01.2009 |
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Methodology: Understanding Number One
Air Methods bills itself as the "World’s Largest Air Ambulance Operator" for a very good reason: It is. The numbers tell the tale. Air Methods flew 105,971 missions in 2008, serving 42 U.S. states...
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| 09.01.2009 |
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Editor’s Notebook: License to Learn
If you are a regular reader, you will have seen Ernie Stephens’ last column about having fun, which is what Ernie is off to do. But everyone has their own definition of fun. So let me tell you a little bit...
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