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Kaman Corporation has resumed production of the commercial K-MAX heavy-lift utility helicopters. The aircraft will be manufactured at Kaman’s Jacksonville, Florida and Bloomfield, Connecticut facilities and production and hiring for the program has already begun. The first new helicopter is expected to be delivered in early-2017. This report confirms again that our southern border is a war zone, as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter operating in U.S. airspace near Laredo, Texas was fired on from the Mexican side of the border, forcing the pilot to initiate an emergency landing. The aircraft was flying in support of a mission

The Benefits Of Electronic Ignition Technologies Are Significant... and Plentiful

Here’s a comment commonly heard from general aviation pilots and mechanics; “If cars,motorcycles, and snowmobiles can be produced with electronic ignition systems, why are our aircraft stuck with what looks like a 1937 Ford tractor magneto?” Some newer aircraft engines are being produced with electronic ignition systems but for most of us, we simply have to live in the past. Well, now things are changing.