Products From the Ray Prouty Archives: Engine Snow Protection Unexpected technical problems challenge almost every new engineering program. It’s the curse of the “unknown unknowns.” Sometimes the problems are serious enough to be fatal…
Military New Year, New You I hope it’s not too obvious that I’m not a fan of resolutions made and never kept. It’s not the premise of setting goals or…
Safety Preventing Accidents: Are We Making Progress? In fiscal 2017, there were 118 accidents with 17 fatal accidents that included 29 fatalities. The accident count was two higher than those in fiscal…
Products The Power Struggle It takes the same amount of force to hold a 5,000-pound helicopter one foot off the ground as it does to hold it at any…
Commercial Executive Outlook: Seeing Growth Among Various Helicopter Sectors After the sale, customers will find much enhanced product support from highly trained tech reps that are available 24/7/365. Each operator is assigned a customer…
Products Executive Outlook: Enabling Mission Readiness through Advanced Systems, Support Two of the most advanced new systems for rotorcraft from Sensors & Integrated Systems are the Pulse™ Health Monitoring System and Goodrich Next Generation Hoist.…
Public Service From the Ray Prouty Archives: Icing and Deicing In many technical fields, the helicopter lags the airplane by 20 to 30 years. This isn’t for want of trying but because, both in configuration…
Products Leonardo's Dual Mode LED Search and Landing Light Allows Operators to See Without Being Seen Leonardo is among the top ten global players in aerospace, defence and security and Italy’s main industrial company. In a recent development, the company recognized…
Military Lockheed Martin CEO: Budget Uncertainty Hurts Industry As Much As Military Defense budget cuts and an ongoing series of stopgaps spending measures is hollowing out the U.S. defense industry as much as Pentagon leaders accuse funding…
Public Service 27,000 in California Forced to Evacuate as Wildfire Hits Ventura A wildfire moved across Ventura, California, early Tuesday. Los Angeles Times reports that it burned 45,500 acres and forced 27,000 people to evacuate. As of…
Commercial Bell Helicopter's Small Drone Could Have Commercial or Military Applications Bell Helicopter has a small unmanned aircraft system of its own. And the manufacturer thinks it can rival some small drones currently available on the…