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Monday, March 1, 2010
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Aero Dynamix Offers L-3 M949 Gen III Night Vision Goggles Night vision systems provider Aero Dynamix of Euless, Texas has become a full line distributor for L-3 Electro-Optical Systems’ M949 Generation III night vision goggles. The goggles are built to DO-275 standards with Class B filters, and... [read more]
March 1, 2010
Rotocraft Report: Aero Dynamix Gains European STC
Services | Night Vision The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has granted a supplemental type...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Consortium Gets SkyTrac Satcom
Products / Tracking Dubai-based Aerospace Consortium FZE has contracted SkyTrac Systems to...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: BAE Countermeasures System Flies on CH-47D
Military / Mission Equipment Rockville, Md.-based BAE Systems successfully installed its Advanced Threat Infrared Countermeasures (ATIRCM) system on U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook aircraft in December 2009. Now, the U.S. Army has reported its first success in...
March 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Goodrich Hands Over Milestone AN/AVR-2B
The U.S. Army has taken delivery of the 500th Goodrich Corp. AN/AVR-2B laser...
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...
February 1, 2010
Program Insider: Army Ponders Kiowa Warrior Upgrade
The U.S. Army may put new engines and a new drive train on its workhorse OH-58 Kiowa Warrior armed scout helicopters to give them “increased power margins to meet the high and hot demands of 6,000 feet and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which are some of the...
February 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: NLR to Study Brownout Reduction Methods
Military | Technology Netherlands’ National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is being asked to come up with solutions to the issue of helicopter brownouts, when clouds of sand and dust rise up during a desert landing. The...
January 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Paradigm AS350B3 Delivered
Commercial | Tourism Paradigm Helicopters has incorporated its first Eurocopter AS350B3 into its Houston-based operations. The company provides various commercial...
January 1, 2010
State Police Use Technology for G-20 Summit
Public Service | Police The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) combined its aviation assets with high technology and coordinated efforts with ground forces to protect dignitaries and the city of Pittsburgh from potentially violent anti-government demonstrators...
January 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Forward Vision Gains R44 STC
Services | Maintenance Under a partnership with One Sky Aviation, Russell, Pa.-based Forward Vision Systems has received a supplemental type...
January 1, 2010
Rotorcraft Report: Kiowa Warrior Getting Band-Aid Upgrades
Military | Mission Equipment The Army’s OH-58 Kiowa Warrior armed scout helicopter—the most heavily used aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan—is losing its distinctive mast-mounted sight. Brig. Gen. Tim Crosby, commander of the Army’s...
January 1, 2010
NVG Conference Calls for Two-Person EMS Crews, NVGs in Cockpit
Products | Night Vision Goggles Want to improve air ambulance safety? Then adopt two-pilot crews, and make sure that they are equipped with night vision goggles (NVGs). That was the message from Night Vision and Electro Optical Conference 2009 (NVEO 2009), a...
January 1, 2010
BAE Remote Guardians Join Osprey Fleet
Military | Mission Equipment The U.S. Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey finally has a gun that can lay down 360 degrees of suppressive fire, filling a gap in the tiltrotor troop transport’s capabilities that was criticized by some in 2007, when the...
January 1, 2010
Carl Zeiss Optronics
Carl Zeiss Optronics designs, develops and produces state-of-the-art optronic instruments for military and civilian applications. They are used to monitor, identify and classify, as well as for precise measurement, evaluation and targeting. As a subsidiary of...
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