http://www.aviationtoday.com Aviation Today en-us 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:43:07 EDT Brighton, UK—The UK’s Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Center (ARCC), currently manned by members of the Royal Air Force and based at RAF Kinloss in Scotland, could be relocated to the new National Maritime Operations Center (NMOC) in Fareham, near Portsmouth, around 2017 when the military ceases... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/event-coverage/ARCC-to-Join-with-NMOC-UK-SAR-Conference-Starts-in-Brighton_79431.html Wed, 5 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT   Think back to the first time you saw a multi-function display (MFD) screen in a cockpit. For me, it was around 1987, when I saw a McDonnell-Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle on static display at an air show. The high-tech fighter had a head-up display and thermal imaging system, too. That was all... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/cover/Synthetic-Vision-Seeing-What-You-Should-Be-Missing&thinsp_79358.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT Lee Benson is a retired senior pilot for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Before he was named senior pilot, Lee ran the aviation section’s safety and training programs, including organizing the section’s yearly safety meeting with other public agencies and the press. Andrew Drwiega... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/features/Meet-the-Contributors_79346.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT Admiral Tony Dalton became head of Helicopter Systems for the ADF in September 2012. He joined the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1980, graduating as a pilot in 1981 and going on to fly helicopters with four RAN helicopter squadrons, an exchange posting with the UK’s Royal Navy and a tour flying... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/features/A-Decade-of-Change-for-Australias-Military-Helicopters_79364.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT   By the end of June, Le Bourget will be transformed, once again, into the aviation industry’s largest trade show. Helicopter manufacturers including AgustaWestland, AVIC, Bell, Boeing, Enstrom, Eurocopter, HAL, KAI, Russian Helicopters, Sikorsky and others will join the many service and equipment... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/features/Paris-Prepares-for-Aviation-Takeover&thinsp_79365.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT   The use of helicopters to drop fire retardant, foam or water to suppress wildfires is an essential firefighting tool. Their speed, mobility and delivery capability make them very effective resources in support of firefighters on the ground. Small, medium and large helicopters can carry from 100 to... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/features/Fighting-the-Flames_79366.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT R&W’s Question of the Month Which manufacturer(s) do you think will win the U.S. Navy’s relaunched VXX Presidential Helicopter replacement program? Let us know, and look for your and others’ wresponses in a future issue. You’ll find contact information below. Other Side of History... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/columns/feedback/Feedback-June-2013_79324.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT AgustaWestland is making its expectations for success in the North American market very clear. With opportunities in the U.S. government markets expected to top $20 billion over the next 15 years, according to AgustaWestland North America Chairman and CEO R. Scott Rettig, the company seems bullish in the... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/columns/notebook/Agustas-Westernland-Expansion-Philadelphia_79321.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT My father was a U.S. Navy hero in World War II, so at an early age I had developed a keen appreciation for several aspects of seamanship, and became, largely in an effort to please my dad, something of a junior knot-tying expert. I pursued this admittedly arcane activity with great energy, memorizing a... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/columns/safetywatch/Knot-Tying-Then-and-Now_79369.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT The North American arm of AgustaWestland uncovered plans April 30 to build the AW169 at its 275,000-square-foot U.S. manufacturing complex at Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), becoming a second location to the OEM’s plant in Vergiate, Italy. (The company also lists its facility in Yeovil, UK as... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/issue/departments/rotorcraftreport/AgustaWestland-to-Bolster-Philadelphia-Production-Line-with-Addition-of-AW169_79350.html Sat, 1 Jun 2013 0:00:00 EDT