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Monday, March 1, 2010
Safety Board Chairman Advocates“Raising the Bar"
The Chairman We were joined in the chairman’s office by NTSB Executive Officer Thom Zoeller, Deputy Director of Aviation Safety for Regional Operations Jeff Guzzetti, the Chairman’s Confidential Assistant Cresence Stafford, and NTSB Public Affairs Officer Keith Holloway. We began by discussing... [read more]
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Lockheed Martin Delivers 50th Multimission MH-60R to U.S. Navy
Lockheed Martin has handed over the 50th MH-60R helicopter with an equipment package designed to help protect the U. S. Navy fleet from hostile submarines and surface ships. Sikorsky built the newest member of the Seahawk family, with advanced mission systems...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: DoD Budget Seeks Funding for 117 Helicopters, 35 V-22s
Military | Airframes Soldiers from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit survey the area around Corail, Haiti in late January before boarding a Bell-Boeing MV-22. The U.S. Department of Defense budget for the upcoming fiscal year includes a request for 30 MV-22B...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Assembly of First S-70i Wraps Up
Military | Airframes PZL Mielec in Poland has nearly finished putting together the initial S70i Black Hawk...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: EastCare Medical Incorporates EC135
This Eurocopter EC135 has joined the fleet of the EastCare air medical program, which Pitt County Memorial Hospital runs. Pitt County Memorial Hospital has taken delivery of a new...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Sikorsky’s Innovations Targets Unmanned Black Hawk
Military | Technology A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk from Task Force 34, 1st Battalion-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion, flies above a mosque during an early 2009 mission in Iraq. Sikorsky is investing $1 billion in its new Innovations segment, which will...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: German Army CH-53GA Goes Airborne
Military | Airframes A crowd of more than 150 people witnessed the initial flight of the Eurocopter CH-53GA—the medium lift transport for the German Armed Forces—on Feb. 10...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: EC135s to Serve Spanish Police Forces
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has placed an order for 12 Eurocopter EC135 P2i aircraft. Spain’s National Police Force will receive six of the helicopters for law...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Assembly of First S-70i Wraps Up
Military | Airframes PZL Mielec in Poland has nearly finished putting together the initial S70i Black Hawk...
March 1, 2010
Like An Angel Came Down to Get Me
Korean War helicopter pilot, World War II fighter pilot, author, artist, great-grandfather. Many people would relish in accomplishing just one of these goals. For Richard C. Kirkland, that’s just where his story begins. Among his honors are the...
March 1, 2010
From Mozart to Huey
Fellow aviators (not shown) saluted Gerry Ventrella as he disembarked from his last mission flight at Camp Speicher in Iraq on Dec. 30, 2007. U.S. Army/SFC Jeff Troth Gerry Ventrella has piloted 41 different aircraft—fixed and rotary wing—in as...
March 1, 2010
CSAR – Not Just a ‘Spur of the Moment’ Thing
Military | Combat SAR There were at least two factors behind last year’s decision to terminate the funding for the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) aircraft. The first was the obvious one that it saved money by an incoming...
February 1, 2010
Eurocopter EC175 Takes to the Air
The EC175 fills the gap between Eurocopter’s EC155 Dauphin and EC225 Super Puma. While the initial flight of the helicopter was on December 4, company officials introduced the model during a ceremony on December 17. The Eurocopter EC175 medium twin...
February 1, 2010
Helicopter Financing Tight But Not Terminal
Services | Financing Although helicopter financing is in the doldrums compared to the boom years, some experts predict a recovery beginning in the second half of this year. The current chill followed a prolonged period of hot and heady days from 2004 through...
February 1, 2010
Helicopter HUMS update 2K10
Way back some 35 years ago, with the ignorance of youth and a bank account unhindered by responsibility, I decided to learn to fly a helicopter. It wasn’t like I was planning on a career as a helicopter pilot, I just wanted to experience what it was...
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