Kyzen Exec Touts Use of Environmentally Friendly Solvents
Joe McChesney, global technology manager at Kyzen, stressed the importance of using enviromentally friendly solvents during a presentation given yesterday at Heli-Expo. The presentation, “Parts...
View ArticleOuterlink Completes Iris Monitoring System
Outlerink's (Booth 9342) new Iris system gives customers a web-based tool that displays all the tracking data with complete aircraft system visibility. The new Iris console presents a virtual copy of...
View ArticleBell Inks Major China 505 Order
China’s Reignwood Aviation is set to become the world’s largest fleet operator of the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X light-single helicopter after the airframer announced a 50-ship order yesterday at Heli-Expo....
View ArticleSikorsky Highlights Helijet's 30 Years of Safe S-76 Ops
Sikorsky (Booth 8114) recognized Helijet for 30 years of safe operations in Sikorsky S-76s. Helijet currently operates a fleet of 11 S-76s, primarily in scheduled passenger service, charter and EMS,...
View ArticleMetro Adding "Patient Simulator" to Training
Metro Aviation's helicopter flight training center plans to add a patient simulator to its Bell 407 Level 7 flight training device (FTD) later this year as part of a plan to offer fully integrated...
View ArticleNTSB Offers Guidance on Tail-rotor Effectiveness
The NTSB recently issued a Safety Alert regarding the loss of tail rotor effectiveness (LTE) in helicopters. In issuing the alert, the Safety Board noted 55 accidents it investigated between 2004 and...
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Apache Multi-year Contract Saves $330 Million, Boeing Says
A multi-year procurement of 268 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters will save the U.S. government $330 million over the term of the contract, manufacturer Boeing and the Army’s Apache project manager...
View ArticleFDM Mandate for EMS To Yield Meaningful Data for Operators
A year from now the FAA's new flight data monitoring (FDM) mandate takes effect for air ambulance operators. But how do operators use all that data as it relates to a flight operations quality...
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Airbus Helicopters Aims for H130 Sales in Malaysia
Airbus Helicopters vice president and head of sales for Southeast Asia & Pacific Fabrice Rochereau sees potential for the H130 light-single helicopter in corporate, private and tourism operations...
View ArticleElbit, FAA To Study Flight Vision Systems for Helos
Israel's Elbit Systems and the U.S.FAA today announced a study on the use of enhanced flight vision systems (EFVS) in helicopters, with the goal of eventually making the technology commercially...
View ArticleUberChoppers Offered during NCAA Finals in Phoenix
Uber has partnered with Guidance Air to offer sightseeing helicopter rides over the Phoenix area, coinciding with the final games in the annual NCAA college basketball tournament. The “UberChopper”...
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U.S. Marine Corps' CH-53K King Stallion Nears Production
After more than a decade in development, the U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter is about to enter production, program executives said April 3. They expected imminent Pentagon...
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Bell Helicopter Boosts Sales In Asia And Reveals Future Technology
Bell Helicopter comes to this year’s ABACE show boosted by recent sales success in the Asia Pacific region. Looking to the future, at last month’s HeliExpo show in Dallas, Texas, the U.S. company,...
View ArticleBell Delivers Its First Chinese HEMS Helicopter
Bell Helicopter has delivered the first of its products to serve as a aeromedical transport in China, to operator Reignwood Aviation, one of the country’s largest helicopter operators, the company...
View ArticleChina's Hubei Tongcheng Orders Pair of Bell 505s
China’s Hubei Tongcheng General Aviation Co. Ltd. today ordered a pair of Bell’s new 505s. The customer, which is based in the central China province of Hubei, intends to use the two single-engine...
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Bell 505 Delivers Smooth Ride In Test Flight
Bell Helicopter delivered the first customer 505 Jet Ranger X in March. Days later AIN had the opportunity to climb aboard and experience a local test flight in one from the Dallas Vertiport under the...
View ArticleAirbus Studying Blue Edge Blade on H225
April 17, 2017, 10:17 AMAirbus Helicopters is studying installing the revolutionary Blue Edge rotor blades on its H225 medium-lift helicopter.
View ArticleBrazilian Helicopter Safety Program Focuses on Weather
April 18, 2017, 11:30 AMWeather was an unfortunately timely topic, with a weather-related helicopter crash occuring near Rio de Janeiro, just minutes before the meeting.
View ArticleAirMed Operator Expands with New Acquisition
April 18, 2017, 11:59 AMAir Medical Group Holdings is purchasing Air Medical Resource Group.
View ArticleAirbus Helicopters Boosts Singapore Center, Logs Orders
April 18, 2017, 4:03 PMPhilippines operator PhilJets ordered a new H145 an a pair of H135 helicopters.
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