Tue, Jul 21, 2015
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!!!

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!
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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