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Matt Thurber

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

Dashboarding the HP Way

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Aviation industry investigating multiple factors to improve initial pilot training.

The State of Training

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

CitationAir To Trim Fleet, Pilot Ranks

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

ForeFlight Adds Document Storage to iPad App

 The EU-ETS is a confounding piece of logically challenged political mumbo jumbo disguised as a lofty goal, the reduction of carbon emissions by aircraft f

AIN Blog: Emissions Trading Scheme Generates Confusion and Confrontation

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

Farnborough 2012 Improvements Revealed

Bombardier confirms orders for seven Q400 NextGen airliners

News and issues concerning general aviation, specifically airplanes and helicopters powered by piston and alternative engines (i.e., non-turbine powered aircraft). Subjects include aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

MAJ Opens New Seletar Hangar

Sikorsky S-92 Heroes Tour at Singapore

New GE Engine-Test Facility Opened

Rockwell Collins HGS Helps Asian Airlines Land Lower

Metro Aviation Celebrating 30th Anniversary

Simplex Receives STC for Aerial Cleaning System

Aero Dynamix Delivers NVG Cockpit Upgrades

Helijet Selects Max-Viz EVS for Sikorskys

Garmin Introduces Part 29 G5000H for Medium-lift Helicopters

Garmin Adapts G5000 for New Bell 525

News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

GE’s New Icing Test Facility Begins Operation 

A crew of talented pilots and maintenance technicians are having an amazing adventure, flying a new Sikorsky S-92 all over the world.

AIN Blog: The S-92 is on a Tour To Honor Heroes

JetNet Adds New Customer Relationship Manager Feature

Cadorath Adds More Bell Repairs During 2011

Uniflight Selected for Eurocopter VIP Completion

Sikorsky Selects GE for Raider Engine

Foley Sees Helicopter Sales Growing Strongly

FAA Plans Cuts to VOR Network

Vaisala Lightning Dataset Upgraded

Change 7.1 Collision-avoidance Software Mandated in Europe

TSO Issued for ADS-B Applications

Magellan Turns an iPod Touch into a Mobile Computer

Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Sikorsky S-92 Heroes Tour at Singapore

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Aero Dynamix Delivers NVG Cockpit Upgrades

Helijet Selects Max-Viz EVS for Sikorskys

Garmin Introduces Part 29 G5000H for Medium-lift Helicopters

Garmin Adapts G5000 for New Bell 525

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AIN Blog: The S-92 is on a Tour To Honor Heroes

JetNet Adds New Customer Relationship Manager Feature

Cadorath Adds More Bell Repairs During 2011

Uniflight Selected for Eurocopter VIP Completion

Sikorsky Selects GE for Raider Engine

Foley Sees Helicopter Sales Growing Strongly

FAA Plans Cuts to VOR Network

Vaisala Lightning Dataset Upgraded

Change 7.1 Collision-avoidance Software Mandated in Europe

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