HAI Convention News 2007

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For Columbia, the gem is 50 years of rotor motion

Columbia Helicopters is celebrating two anniversaries and is honoring four employees here at Heli-Expo’07.

Gulf operators face unexpected challenges after Katrina, Rita

For many residents of the Gulf Coast stretching between the Florida Panhandle and Galveston, Texas, the sound of helicopter rotors overhead serve as a freq

Gulf Helicopter Safety by the Numbers

On March 23, 2004, an Era Aviation Sikorsky S-76A transporting eight oil workers crashed in the Gulf of Mexico at night, killing the passengers along with

Helicopter industry hanging ‘help wanted’ signs

The helicopter industry as a whole is as healthy as it has ever been, at a time when the retirements of Vietnam-era pilots and mechanics are causing a shor

Despite funding shift, Marine One on schedule

Despite the Navy’s decision to scale back initial funding for the program, Lockheed Martin continues to ready a new facility opened last year in Owego, N.Y

The S-61 man with a plan

Revered as one of the most venerable and versatile helicopters in the history of vertical flight, the Sikorsky S-61 has served for nearly a half century ar

Jet-Care to test USCG engine oils

Jet-Care International of Cedar Knolls, N.J., and its sister company Spectro of the UK and Switzerland, have won multi-year contracts to analyze engine oil

SRT Helicopters brings SAR training to customers’ sites

First-time Heli-Expo exhibitor SRT Helicopters (Booth No.

P&WC to power Eurocopter’s EC 175

Pratt & Whitney Canada has won the contract to power Eurocopter’s EC 175, a new 6.7-metric-ton helicopter that will fill the gap between the EC 155 Dau