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| 10.10.2008 |
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NBAA 2008 Draws 30,000
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Maverick Sees 20,000 EC130 Flights This Year
PRODUCTS American Eurocopter last month delivered the 33rd EC130 to Maverick Helicopters. Dale Cowley, head of operations at the Las Vegas-based tour operator, and Mike Eggers...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Latin America Notebook
Flying High in Brazil’s Defense and Oil Sectors PRODUCTS | AIRFRAMES Sixty years ago, the first helicopter, a Bell 47D, arrived in Brazil for agricultural aerial applications in São Paulo. But the helicopter also began ferrying some prestigious...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Pressure-Jet Power
PRODUCTS Pegasus Helicopters reported it has signed letters of intent to distribute at least 255 of its PH200PJ aircraft with partners covering Russia and other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Brazil. The Boulder, Colo. company said the...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Lockheed Martin Takes Delivery Of Manned-Unmanned K-Max
PRODUCTS The K-Max manned-unmanned helicopter program took an important step forward Aug. 1 when Kaman Aerospace’s Helicopters Div delivered the first of two refurbished helicopters to Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego, N.Y. Kaman and...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: ALEA A Hit in Houston
ALEA 2008 Houston was the site of the 38th Annual ALEA Conference and Exposition. The two-day event drew 1,143 law enforcement aviators from around the globe, many of whom come every year for classes, workshops and access to the industry’s leading...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Texas Dept of Public Safety Takes 10th Astar
ALEA 2008 Chief Pilot Jack Reichert of the Texas Dept of Public Safety accepted the keys to the police agency’s 10th Eurocopter AS350 police helicopter at the annual ALEA Conference in Houston in July. The white, black and gold B2 variant was presented...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: ALEA’s Initiatives To Renew Fleets
ALEA 2008 ALEA has embarked on a two-part initiative to promote airborne law enforcement to Congress. The first part is to encourage lawmakers to "support the funding efforts needed to keep aviation units active," according...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Florida County Gets New Bell 407
ALEA 2008 Texas Aviation Services has delivered a Bell Helicopter Model 407 to the Volusia County, Fla. Sheriff’s Dept. This new 407 is one of three to be used in the sheriff’s emergency medical service and law enforcement air support missions for...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Axsys’ Enhancement to Hi-Def Camera System
ALEA 2008 Axsys Technologies of Grass Valley, Calif. used the 38th annual ALEA Conference as a backdrop to introduce its new, military-grade applications that it said would "significantly enhance" its’ high-definition V14HD MSII video system...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: North Carolina County Takes New R44
ALEA 2008 Sheriff Sidney Causey of New Hanover County, N.C. and several of his deputies traveled to the ALEA Conference in Houston to take delivery of a new R44 Raven 2 police helicopter from Kurt Robinson of Robinson Helicopter. The shiny, all-black aircraft...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Operators Address NOTAR Bulletin
PRODUCTS Specialist Aviation Services recalled all 18 of its MD Helicopters MD-902s from police and emergency medical service lessees in early August while it investigated a control system failure. On Aug. 8, an SAS Explorer on lease to Great North Air...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Heard in the Hallways: Does the Future Include Farnborough?
Perhaps it was the economic troubles, the weak dollar, the fair weather or competition from other international aerospace exhibitions. But nearly every exhibitor, attendee and fellow journalist that Rotor & Wing queried during July’s Farnborough Air...
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| 08.27.2008 |
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Sikorsky X2 Flies
Sikorsky Aircraft today completed the first flight of its X2 technology demonstrator. Lifting the aircraft off from the Schweizer Aircraft subsidiary in Horseheads, N.Y., Sikorsky Chief Test Pilot Kevin Bredenbeck maneuvered the...
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| 08.13.2008 |
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U.K. Kicks Off Rotor Research Project
The Rotor Embedded Actuator Control Technology, or React, project is a three-year effort to develop active surfaces in helicopter rotor blades and active...
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| 08.08.2008 |
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AW Grand Pilot Attempts World Record
Pilot Scott Kasprowicz departed New York at about 0300 local Aug. 7 in an attempt to set a new speed record for an around-the-world helicopter flight. His goal is to complete the trip in under 14 days in his executive-configured A109S...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Firms Pursue "Game-Changing" Commercial Heavy Lifter
PRODUCTS | AIRFRAMES A small Canadian firm aims to transform vertical heavy-lift with a blimp-helicopter capable of carrying 40 tons and staying aloft in almost all emergency conditions. Calgary, Alberta-based Jessco Logistics’ chief, Peter Jess, has...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: AW Edges Out Competitors With Russian Deal
PRODUCTS | AIRFRAMES AgustaWestland and the Russian aerospace giant Oboronprom have agreed to jointly set up an AW139 line in Russia, a move that could give the British-Italian manufacturer a key advantage over competitors in the offshore-support market...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: AW Upgrades A109 Family
PRODUCTS | AIRFRAMES AgustaWestland is developing a higher-performance version of its A109S Grand for the operator REGA Swiss Air Rescue Zurich-based REGA is a pioneer among air rescue operators. In the early 1990s, Agusta developed the K2 variant of the A109...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Rotorcraft Report: Swidnik Logs First U.K. SW4 Sale
PRODUCTS | AIRFRAMES A U.K. charter operator has lined up to become the first to put PZL Swidnik’s SW4 on that nation’s civil registry. Newly relocated to Biggin Hill Airport in Westerham, Kent, southeast of London, Skycharter UK Ltd unveiled the...
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