Also: Aviation Gateway Park, New Vintage Plaza, L-3 Genesys, BendixKing's KI300, Jack Pelton Interview--Part 1, Lockheed Buys Sikorsky, ANN's AirVenture Innovation Preview ROCKED!

 

Redbird has become known as one of the most innovative companies in the industry, and this week at AirVenture, they rolled out a new idea they’re calling the Sidekick. ANN’s Tom Patton talked with Redbird founder Jerry Gregoire about what Sidekick is .. and what it does. Hartzell made a major announcement with Piper today that a Hartzell five-blade composite propeller is available for Piper’s M500 Turboprop. Hartzell president Joe Brown says that pilots will notice a significant change with the new propeller. A couple of opening events took place Monday as the show officially got underway. At the new Aviation gateway park, a UAV was supposed to have brought in the ceremonial scissors for a ribbon cutting opening the new area to the public, but the wind did not allow that to happen, so they came in in a more normal way … carried in a bucket. Piper CEO Simon Caldecott  said there was a specific reason Piper wanted to sponsor the park. L-3 Avionics Systems introduced their Genesys Next Generation of Electronic Standby Instrument Systems Monday here at AirVenture.  The instrument is a solid state standby instrument for the Part 23 class one, two, and three aircraft along with helicopters. Bendix King also introduced a solid state backup instrument Monday afternoon. The KI 300 is intended as a replacement for the KI256 and KG 258 attitude indicators. ANN Editor Chief Jim Campbell talked with Bendix King president Justin Ryan about the new instrument. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!www.youtube.com/aerotvnetwork, http://twitter.com/AeroNews

Airborne 07.20.15 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode Monday, July 20th, 2015... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Brianne Cross, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:

 

Redbird Sidekick

Garmin Updates GTN 650 and 750

Pelton Says AV15 Off To Great Start

ICON A5 FINALLY Delivers... Kind Of

Hartzell Re-Props Piper M500

Aviation Gateway Park

New Vintage Plaza

L-3 Introduces Genesys

BendixKing's KI300 Solid-State EAI

Jack Pelton Interview, Part 1

OH Yeah... Lockheed Bought Sikorsky

And... ANN's AirVenture Innovation Preview ROCKED!

 

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