Serengeti, a brand of Bushnell Outdoor Products, has expanded its selection of Driver Gradient lenses to 14. With a unique shade of brown developed to create the right balance for a wide range of environment light, Drivers Gradient lenses have a host of leading-edge features designed to eliminate eyestrain and fatigue on the road or in the air.
Hawker Beechcraft Corp. recently selected India-based Arrow Aviation Services Pvt. Ltd. to distribute parts for all Hawker and Beechcraft aircraft throughout the Indian subcontinent, Middle East, Morocco and Algeria. Arrow will use its two facilities in Kolkata, India, and in Dubai, UAE, for the program.
FOR THOSE CURIOUS -- and harboring either a sense of trepidation or giddy relief -- about the cost of a college education today, let me try to satisfy. Recently indoctrinated to the fiscal firmament of higher education today, I offer this.
Embraer signed the declaration on climate change generated during the third Aviation & Environment Summit (www.enviro.aero) held April 22-23 in Geneva, Switzerland. Frederico Fleury Curado, Embraer's president & CEO, stressed the need of a common vision and approach, and emphasized the company's commitment to the environment.
The FAA has granted Jeppesen approval to provide RNP consultant services. The action allows Jeppesen representatives to guide airlines and other aircraft operators through the FAA's RNP operations approval process. The Boeing-owned company will also offer RNP services for non-U.S. operators looking to implement RNP operations worldwide.
Gulfstream Aerospace has received STC approval for the installation of a muffler on the Gulfstream G200 auxiliary power unit. The muffler is designed to reduce noise from the surge-control valve by 10 to 12 decibels, which cuts the noise by more than half the current level, the company said. Gulfstream Service Engineering developed, flight-tested and certified the muffler based on input from a G200 Customer Advisory Board. M-Dot Aerospace in Phoenix completed the muffler design and will build the units for Gulfstream.
International Communication Group (ICG) has created a successful interface between its line of NxtLink Iridium satellite communication systems and Tempus, a remote medical monitoring device produced by U.K.-based RDT Ltd. According to ICG, this interface means that the Iridium satellite communications network is available via NxtLink almost anywhere on the ground or aboard aircraft to assist emergency medical technicians or flight service personnel in dealing with potentially life-threatening situations. Price: Contact manufacturer ICG, Inc.
Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service was the first airborne health care system and has become the best known in the world after being established shortly after World War I to serve the country's huge Outback areas. It currently operates a mixed fleet of 47 aircraft made up of King Airs and Pilatus PC-12s from 21 bases scattered throughout the country. In 2007, the RFDS served more than 35,000 patients with emergency air transportation.
ChinaONEcall provides a 24/7 telephone link to professional English and Mandarin speaking staff who can communicate on your behalf. According to the company, Using chinaONEcall will enhance your stay in China, whether on business or for pleasure. No longer will there be an obstacle in your way; no more puzzled expressions and bewilderment; no more uncomfortable smiles at the impatient taxi driver, ticket clerk, waiter, shop assistant or hotel receptionist. ChinaONEcall is easy to use. Just sign up for a new account, preferably before you travel to China.
Gradient Lens Corp. (GLC) is offering manufacturers an easy way to capture, share and store borescope inspection images. The Luxxor Video System connects to any rigid or flexible Hawkeye Precision Borescope, as well as to most other borescope brands. According to GLC, some of the benefits include: easy documentation of inspections and storage of video or still images on a computer hard drive; ability to share and display inspection images for group reviews.
The PW305 was the first of a new series of small, fuel-efficient turbofan engines introduced by Pratt & Whitney Canada in the early 1990s having higher bypass ratios than earlier engines in the 4,500- to 7,000-pound-thrust class. These engines also were among the first general aviation turbine powerplants to be fitted with FADECs, computer controls that slash pilot workload, set thrust precisely for ambient conditions and provide full envelope protection to help prevent damage from malfunctions.
CRS Jet Spares, a business aviation aftermarket support facility, announced that it has recently parted out a Premier aircraft thereby providing component and structural items for operators. This inventory includes items such as Rockwell Collins displays, computers, pumps, leading edges, actuators, oxygen mask, inverters, seats and much more.
THE AIRLINES WERE ON the hot seat in Washington last month for several instances of failing to comply with Airworthiness Directives in a timely manner. But the entire aviation community had to shudder about the possible implications of some of the congressional rhetoric expounded during a 10-hour hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
When they're not teaching nearly half the known student pilot population the required body of knowledge to obtain various FAA ratings, John and Martha King, of the eponymous King Schools, are actively involved in numerous aviation communities and their programs, among them the Lindbergh Foundation -- more formally, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation. Recently, John King agreed to chair the organization's board (he says "I got drafted" by Foundation President Knox Bridges), and he's become an outspoken champion of the group's cause ever since.
Construction of Panama City, Fla.'s new greenfield airport is under way and back on schedule for a May 2010 opening date, after the airport authority fended off moves by environmental groups earlier this year to stop the construction. The existing airport, hemmed in by the sea and residential and commercial development, does not and cannot meet FAA runway overrun requirements. The replacement airport, sited on a 4,000-acre parcel of land, is part of a 41,000-acre "green zone" being developed by the St.
Embraer, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, announced the Pedro Ferraz Pereira, director of corporate communications for North American, is assuming a new position as the director of Internal Communications at the company's headquarters in Brazil.
Capping and market-based trading carbon emissions will not necessarily help the poor, according to Professor Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "Carbon markets need appropriate rules -- a framework in which the potentially trillion-dollar industry can operate," he told Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) board and committee members April 6 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is hosting the PATA Annual Meeting, which included a "Climate Change - Obstacle and Opportunities" session.
Bombardier announced significant changes to its Aerospace Group organization and its leadership team. Guy C. Hachey is appointed Bombardier Aerospace's new President and Chief Operating Officer, effective May 12, 2008. A transition period will follow until June 4, 2008, when Pierre Beaudoin, the current President and Chief Operating Officer, will take over the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, Bombardier Inc., as previously announced. Gary R.
Your comments in the March Viewpoint ("Deserving It") were appropriate and truthful. It is a subject often heatedly discussed and rarely resolved in my experience -- and one that will be timely long after you and I are silenced. Unfortunately. In the March 17 Newsweek, Anna Quindlen quoted a 1963 comment by Charlotte Whitton, the mayor of Ottawa: "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of as half as good. Luckily this is not difficult."
This was an exciting era for aviation, a time when the old limitations of what was technically possible seemed to constrict almost daily. A sampling of news bits and announcements in the May issue of what was then called Business/Commercial Aviation gave a sense of pace and push.
Nancy M. Graham (C. 196004) (Charlottesville, Va.)
Your March 2008 Viewpoint ("Deserving It") brought back pre-Gaffney airport attitudes loud and clear. Every female CFI in War Training Service uniform shown in the accompanying photo from Embry-Riddle's Chapman Field (along with as many others in their civilian attire instructing civilians) knew she had to work harder, show more interest and have fewer wash-outs than any male to gain respect.
Blackhawk, Waco, Texas, has appointed Jeff Raines as special projects director to lead the team at the company's new product development facility in Elizabethtown, N.C.
Thank you for sharing your Viewpoint on women in aviation ("Deserving It," March 2008, page 7). I applaud you for again reinforcing that women indeed can be pilots and succeed in other aviation careers. I am a member of Women in Aviation International and we need people like you helping to break down the barriers women have in aviation.
