Commercial Advancing the Art and Science of Flight Everyone knows safety is the number-one priority of aviation, but just behind that is an ever-present impulse to advance the art and the science of…
Commercial Rotor Operators Begin 'Earnest Search' to Meet ADS-B Mandate While misconceptions about the Federal Aviation Administration’s Jan. 1, 2020 mandate to install digital transponders have slowed helicopter operators’ adoption of Automatic Dependence
Safety Dusk 'Til Dawn As night vision and other technologies have made night operations safer, interest has reawakened in allowing helicopters to fight fires, transport critically injured patients and…
Military V-22 at 30 Three decades after it first took flight, enough V-22 Ospreys are deployed to far-flung locations that virtually no corner of the globe is unreachable by…
Military Raider: The First Public Flight of Sikorsky’s Fast Attack Prototype Test pilot Bill Fell was zooming southward, approaching Sikorsky’s runway outside West Palm Beach, Florida, at about 190 knots when he decided that was as…
Public Service The Difficult Privilege As law enforcement aviators, we are tasked with protecting and serving the public through the use of a flying police car and anyone who has…
Training Training with the Brain in Mind Modern full-flight simulators are so realistic that a student pilot can learn to fly from scratch in the virtual world and step directly into an…
Commercial Leonardo To Debut New Aircraft Threat Warning System in Paris Leonardo will exhibit a new missile warning system at the Paris Air Show this year that offers enhanced situational awareness and survivability for aircraft crews…
Military French Air Force Orders Additional H225M The French Air Force has ordered an additional heavy twin Airbus H225M helicopter to add to its existing fleet of 10. It will be delivered…
Commercial Vietnamese Company Offers Tourist Flights over Ha Long Bay with Bell 505 VNH North has begun offering the first-ever tourism helicopter flights over the country’s iconic Ha Long Bay, using light single-engine Bell 505 helicopters. The company,…
Safety Keeping a Safety MINDSPACE Helicopter operators often use safety management systems (SMSs) to identify and control safety risks, with the word "system" implying a complex arrangement of integral parts…