Kirby Harrison is a freelance writer for The Weekly of Business Aviation, Business & Commercial Aviation and others in the Informa publishing chain. Harrison joined the Navy in 1962 and spent 20 years in the service, virtually all of it as a photojournalist, traveling from small islands in the South Pacific to Vietnam to the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon. When Harrison retired from the Navy, he went back to college and graduated in 1971 from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Photojournalism. Along the way, he spent two years as a news photographer at the Daily Press & Times Herald in Newport News, Virginia, and three years working for Studio Sebe in Nice, France as a photographer. More recently, before retiring, he worked nearly 20 years for Naval Aviation News.
The first prototype of the medium, multi-role Ka-62 helicopter took to the air for its first flight on May 2 at Russian Helicopters’ Progress Arsenyev Aviation Company factory in Arsenyev, near Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East.
Lufthansa Technik is extending its presence in the Asian market and is expanding a new range of products, some of which are already being installed in aircraft.
UAS International Trip Support and Aviation Concepts Group have entered into a strategic partnership designed to “significantly boost service capabilities and offer clients more location options and higher quality,” the partners said.
