Marty Wright Receives W.A. 'Dub' Blessing Flight Instructor Of The Year Award

Helicopter Association International (HAI) is pleased to announce that Marty Wright, Chief Flight Instructor at the Bell Training Academy, is the 2019 recipient of the W.A. “Dub” Blessing Flight Instructor of the Year Award. This award, sponsored by H. Ross Perot and the Perot family, recognizes superlative contributions by a helicopter flight instructor in upholding high standards of excellence. The award will be presented at HAI’s Salute to Excellence Awards luncheon at HAI HELI-EXPO 2019 in Atlanta.

To Be Presented At The Space Foundation’s 35Th Space Symposium

Launched in 2007 and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Dawn mission space probe ended its mission on Oct. 31, 2018, after successfully completing its mission to orbit giant asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, revealing important information about the formation of the solar system. For those accomplishments, the mission will receive the 2019 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration.

Initium Aerospace Combines The Best Technologies And Services Of Boeing And Safran To Offer A More Competitive APU

Boeing and Safran have announce the name of their 50-50 joint venture to design, build and service Auxiliary Power Units (APUs): Initium Aerospace.

The San Diego Air & Space Museum Will Welcome All Three Apollo 9 Crewmembers

The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 9, the first of four Apollo flights in 1969 – including the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing in July later that year – takes center stage during a special celebration at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Wednesday, March 13, the museum has announced.

Will Offer JetWave In-Flight Wi-Fi For Business Jet Market

Satair and Honeywell Aerospace have signed an agreement to distribute Honeywell’s JetWave high-speed in-flight connectivity system to a wide segment of the global business jet market.

Expansion Of Montgomery, AL Space Will Be Completed This Summer

Hartzell Engine Technologies (HET) has officially broken ground on the 10,000 square foot addition to its headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama. When completed, the expansion will increase the total size of the HET campus to 86,000 square feet.

Interferograms Derive The Topographic Elevation And Deformation Of The Earth’s Surface

Airbus Defense and Space and Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos, S.A. have generated the first joint TerraSAR-X / PAZ Radar Interferogram. This milestone demonstrates the missions’ capacity for cross-sensor interferometry, whose processing is among the most challenging.

Will Help Equip Fighter Aircraft With Next Generation Radar

Abaco has won substantial orders from a leading systems integrator that sees Abaco's 3U VPX single board computers, FPGA cards and FPGA mezzanine cards deployed as part of a major radar systems upgrade for two classes of jet fighter for the USAF. The program will likely be extended to include upgrades for aircraft operated by the US Navy and by armed forces in Europe. The order was won in competition against several other potential vendors.

Features Two Major Improvements Over The Previous Generation Kit, Company Says

Dart Aerospace (Dart) received STC approval from Transport Canada in late 2018 for its new EC/H130 Emergency Float System (EFS). Applicable to both legacy EC130B4 models and the latest H130 from Airbus, the new EFS features two major improvements over the previous generation kit: compatibility with OEM fixed provisions and the addition of quick release fittings, which allow for the removal of 70% of the kit’s weight in less than five minutes without any tools.

The Aircraft Is Assigned To Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 362 (VMM-362) Under The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) celebrated an historic occasion at Naval Air Station North Island January 31 with the induction of its first MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft for Planned Maintenance Interval-Two (PMI-2). The aircraft is assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 362 (VMM-362) under the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.