Health And Flight Data System For Light And Medium Helicopters

The U.S. affiliate of Airbus Helicopters, is collaborating with Ultra Electronics-Flightline Systems, of Victor, N.Y. to evaluate the first comprehensive and integrated Health Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) and Flight Data Monitoring (HFDM) system to evaluate the potential to make these systems standard equipment on Part 27 and light Part 29 helicopters of the Airbus Helicopter family.

Sale Is A Key Milestone For Bell Helicopter’s New Office In Italy

The first Bell 407GX to be sold to an Italian Company will be delivered to Elicompany. The aircraft, configured for corporate and VIP transport and charter, will be the first Bell 407GX to operate in Italy, and was the first sale conducted by Bell Helicopter’s new office in Milan, Italy.

System Monitors All Engine Performance Data

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) recently certified the Flight Data Acquisition Storage and Transmission (FAST) engine diagnostic solution for the AgustaWestland AW139. This system will provide operators with an end-to-end application for managing all helicopter engine performance data.

First Of Four Aircraft Ordered In January Last Year

Era Group recently accepted delivery of a baseline S-92 helicopter. The announcement was made at the 2015 Helicopter Association International Heli-Expo show.

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“Unfortunately, many of our airport partners are advocating for a historic tax hike on the traveling public through a nearly 90 percent increase in the PFC airport tax. This is simply not necessary." Source: Letter to Congress from the A4A Board of Directors members who are CEOs of the major U.S. passenger airlines.

Denotes a heavier than air aircraft that is supported at vertical takeoff, vertical landing, and low speed flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its rotors or thrust and in horizontal flight by the dynamic reactions of air against its wings (for example, the tilt rotor aircraft).

Flying Stuart Little's Airplane

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Actor, Pilot, And Aviation Advocate Went Down On A California Golf Course

Harrison Ford sustained moderate injuries Thursday when the the  airplane he was piloting ... which appears to be a PT-22 Recruit ...  went down on the Penmar golf course in Mar Vista, CA.

No Injuries Among The 127 Passengers Aboard The MD-88

A Delta Airlines MD-88 with 127 passengers and five crew on board arriving from Atlanta skidded off the runway at LaGuardia Airport about 11 a.m. Thursday morning after landing on a snow and sleet-slicked runway.