Content Archive: April 2008

Bizav’s delivery slump continues

The numbers are in for deliveries of business aircraft in the first half of this year, and the news isn’t good despite a slight increase of 27 aircraft shi
Avionics

Trend to EFBs Enticing Aircraft Makers

EFBs are becoming not just accepted but entrenched in business aviation, with hundreds of professional pilots today powering up lightweight pen tablet comp
Rotorcraft

Russian Rotorcraft Resurrected

In the peek-a-boo world of Russian rotorcrafting (now you see the program, now you don’t), plans have been announced to finally go ahead with the Kamov Ka-

Fort Lauderdale opens public-use helistop

The opening of a public-use heliport isn’t as rare as, say, the passage of a really visible comet, or a Mets victory in a World Series.

Executive Shuffle at Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier today announced substantial changes to its aerospace group leadership team, most notably naming auto industry veteran Guy Hachey Bombardier Aero
Avionics

Dassault first OEM to install airborne Internet system

Technicians at Dassault Falcon Jet’s completion center in Little Rock, Ark., have on this month’s docket the installation in a Falcon 900EX of a new high-s
Rotorcraft

Helo Rescue Goes Awry on Mount Hood

Attempting to rescue injured climbers on Oregon’s highest peak in an accident that left three dead, a Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue Black Haw
Rotorcraft

Air Methods buys Rocky Mountain

The inexorable “bigger is better” economic logic of consolidation that has reshaped much of the fixed-wing side of aviation is now beginning to emerge in t
Rotorcraft

Anti-noise Advocates Lose Grand Teton Appeal

Anti-noise Advocates Lose Grand Teton AppealA federal appeals court has dismissed a bid by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Wilderness S
Rotorcraft

X-50A testbed may lead to faster hybrid helo

In the aeronautical mountain range, a few peaks are still unclimbed.