Content Archive: July 2009

In a move to end the longstanding dispute between helicopter operators and residents around the exclusive sea resort of Saint-Tropez in southeast France, l

Bell Helicopter received Transport Canada certification for its long-awaited new light twin, the 429, last month.

London’s Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit in June flew its 5,000th hour (in almost two years) with its fleet of three Eurocopter EC 145s equipped with

Northern Wisconsin forests are experiencing their worst drought in 70 years.

The Flight Dynamics division of Rockwell Collins next year plans to introduce a synthetic-vision system (SVS) with its Head-Up Guidance System (HGS, aka HU

Daher has signed a contract with Eurocopter to design, develop and produce a “new generation” airframe for light helicopters.

The recently certified Falcon 2000LX claims a 5-percent performance advantage over its predecessor, the Falcon 2000EX.

The AgustaWestland A109E, owned by the New Mexico State Department of Public Safety and operated by the New Mexico State Police, had just rescued a lost hi

When the Australians decide to go for something, they really go for it.

Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling in June said Brazil is to become his company’s “fourth domestic country,” after France, Germany and Spain.