A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Cessna Aircraft subsidiary McCauley Propeller Systems is displaying its new Blackmac Carbon Series constant-speed propeller at this year’s Sun ’n’ Fun fly-in event in Lakeland, Fla. The world’s largest full-line propeller manufacturer expects to receive FAA certification in the first half of the year for the clean-sheet scalable design that features composite materials and uses a patented high-strength, low-weight continuous carbon loop blade retention system to reduce weight and improve product life.


“This new propeller is the lightest in its class,” said Scott Howell, McCauley business leader. “No other certified propeller rated at 350 hp, wood or composite, weighs less.”


The new design retains McCauley’s single-piece oil-filled hub and has 25 percent fewer parts than a comparable aluminum propeller, Howell added. The scimitar-shaped blades constructed from seamless carbon fiber and fiberglass feature electro-formed nickel leading edges for durability and impact resistance. Indeed, the new propellers are certified for unlimited life and an overhaul interval of 2,400 hours or 72 months and include the company’s parts and labor warranty of three years or the first overhaul.


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McCauley Shows BlackMac Carbon Series at Sun ’n’ Fun

The Cessna subsidiary expects FAA certification in this year's first half.

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