All Helicopters articles – Page 132
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General aviation in brief
Aviation Industry Corporation of China's General Aircraft says it plans to roll out one of its four-seat, piston-engined Seagull 300s...
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Pawan Hans orders seven AS365s
Pawan Hans, India's state-owned helicopter operator, is growing its fleet and plans to set up a maintenance, repair and overhaul unit and a pilot training facility in response to rising demand for rotorcraft in the country.
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Opinion
Comment: Healing in Houston
No longer in denial, the helicopter industry came together in Texas last week, fully aware of its shortcomings and challenges and fully committed to a more robust, safer future
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Bell 429 off and running – officially
Bell has handed over its first 429 twin, to Des Moines helicopter emergency medical services operator Mercy One, after a four-month kitting out by Air Methods, which will operate the aircraft.
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HELI-EXPO: Honeywell to offer extended voice capabilities on Sentinel MFD
Honeywell has unveiled plans to offer new upgrades for its Sentinel multi-function display, including new voice callouts that will inform pilots how far...
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Russian helicopter industry continues to chalk up rapid growth
Russian helicopter manufacturers continue to increase production despite the global economic downturn, which has forced nearly every Western manufacturer...
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HELI-EXPO: Cobham expects HeliSAS certification on Bell 206/407 and AS350 by year-end
Cobham Avionics expects to finally certify its new Stability Augmentation System (SAS) on the Bell 206 and 407 in the third quarter of 2010 and is confident...
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HELI-EXPO: Garmin expands into helicopter market
Garmin has expanded into the rotor-wing market by developing versions of its terrain awareness and avoidance system (TAWS) and G500 electronic flight display...
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FAA publishes final flight data recorder parameter rule
US regulators have published a final rule that prohibits filtering of certain data captured by digital flight data recorders.
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SaxonAir makes foray into helicopter charter
UK business aircraft charter company SaxonAir has made its first foray into the VIP helicopter charter market following delivery of a single-engined Eurocopter EC120 and a twin-engined EC135.
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HELI-EXPO: Robinson sets R66 price at $770,000
Robinson Helicopter has begun accepting orders for the R66 as the manufacturer closes in on certifying the new five-seat turbine helicopter.
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NewsHELI-EXPO: AgustaWestland unveils new avionics suite for Grand light twin
AgustaWestland today unveiled the Grand New light twin helicopter and disclosed a launch customer for the new type, which recently became the first helicopter to use synthetic vision to secure single pilot IFR certification.
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HELI-EXPO: AgustaWestland to learn BA609 fate by end of June
AgustaWestland CEO Giuseppe Orsi says the long-delayed decision on whether Bell Helicopter will cede its majority share in the BA609 civil tiltrotor program to minority partner AgustaWestland will be made by the end of June.
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FAA publishes final flight data recorder parameter rule
US regulators today published a final rule spurred by the November 2001 crash of an American Airlines Airbus A300-600 that prohibits filtering of certain...
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Asia poised for first Falcon 7X delivery
Dassault is preparing to hand over the first Asia-based Falcon 7X business jet to Indian holding...
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STAT MedEvac ASAP: a deeper dive into helicopter safety
Can safety management systems curb the alarming rise in the number of helicopter emergency medical service accidents?
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ADS-B bridges the Gulf of Mexico
Introduction of ADS-B operations has made offshore helicopter flights safer in the Gulf of Mexico since December
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Much to do about MAPL
TECHNOLOGY MUCH TO DO ABOUT MAPL WHEN BELL decided to produce an eight-seat, single-pilot IFR twin-engined helicopter, there was a choice of...
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Civil helicopters: The latest on the market
With the worst of the economic downturn behind them, helicopter manufacturers and operators are turning to innovation, safety and efficiency to gain an edge over rivals.