All articles by Jeffrey Decker
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Interview
Working Week: Kristine Hartzell
She says she fell in love with flying after a cockpit visit aged seven. Now, managing regulatory affairs for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association makes Norway-born Kristine Hartzell a top advocate for general aviation
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Interview
Working Week: Neal Willford
Designing a life in aerospace Starting life in Toledo, Ohio and ending up in Wichita, Kansas, after stints at Boeing and NASA, project engineer Neal...
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Interview
Working Week: Jay Carter
Jay Carter began building model aircraft at a young age, entered the wind turbine business and broke into the rotorcraft industry with Bell Helicopter before going solo as president of Carter Aviation Technologies
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News
Hydrotreated renewable jet fuel close to certification but scale-up challenges remain
Certification of hydrotreated renewable jet fuel could be imminent. The challenge then will be to secure investment and feedstock breakthroughs to scale up production
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USAF confident of meeting 2011 blended fuel target
With a helpful push from an impressed US Air Force, industry confidence in synthetic fuels is gaining momentum
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Working Week: Building the CAAFI coalition
Richard Altman is executive director of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative, working closely with aviation's private and public sectors in a bid to achieve carbon neutral growth by 2020
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Clean avgas substitute aims for summer approval
A test fuel specification for SwiftFuel , a biofuel designed to replace leaded avgas, could...
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Scan surge
Devices that can detect foreign objects through clothing are seeing renewed demand. But how do they work?
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Working week: Getting comfortable at Cessna
Getting comfortable at Cessna Comfortable expanses within Citation business jets and the cosiness of each piston-single aircraft are the responsibility...
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Biplane business is buzzing
Mark Marino finished designs of a newer, better Hatz biplane in 2005. He sells the plans and parts from Sky Harbor Airport,...
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Cellular power
Could pond organisms really power the airliners of tomorrow? After much hype over algae-based fuels, the players in this young industry are beginning to...
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Working Week: Packing in excitement at Martin
Richard Lauder's role at Martin Aircraft is mainly to lead planning, funding and commercial activities, but like all staff he is sometimes asked to strap the company's Jetpack on his back and take to the air
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Working Week: Drawn to the flames
Drawn to the flames What attracts aerial wildfire-fighters to the job? And what do they do in winter, when there are no blazes to tackle? Gary Munson,...
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Working Week: Hunting for tomorrow's fuels
As senior researcher at the Energy & Environmental Research Center of the University of North Dakota, Ted Aulich is on the frontlines in the search for alternatives to Avgas and petroleum
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Working Week: Earl Lawrence fights for freedom of flight
In his role as vice-president of industry and regulatory affairs at the Experimental Aircraft Association, Earl Lawrence battles the corner for recreational aviators, from ultralights to ex-military jets
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School squeeze
The economic downturn has hit most of the training industry hard as students find it difficult to finance courses and graduates struggle to land jobs. Can the academies survive until the upturn arrives?
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OSHKOSH 2009: Adam Aircraft under new ownership
The former Adam Aircraft A500 piston twin and A700 very light jet are again under new ownership. Thomas Hsueh, owner of Triton America and Bayfield...
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CHC: Canada's helicopter heavyweight
Helicopter heavies - Offshore oil and gas support is the main revenue earner for Canadian giant CHC, which now operates on every continent
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Civil simulators special: High-end helicopter simulation comes of age
Fixed-wing simulators have long been part of mainstream training, but rotorcraft devices are only now making their mark