Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Metro Aviation recently completed a one-of-a-kind Airbus Helicopters H125 to serve as an observation platform for the University of Miami’s Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

 


Metro Aviation (Booth 9337) worked with the school’s Dean Roni Avissar to develop an attachment that holds a system of scientific sensors and a full inertial monitoring system of differential GPS and accelerometers. The helicopter was fitted with a nearly 13-foot-long sensor-carrying rod that was mounted with a Meeker Aviation AirFilm Camera System and vibration-damping device.

 


“Adapting our scientific instrumentation on a helicopter in a way that eliminates aerodynamic and mechanical interferences with the measurements is a complex engineering and realization project,” Avissar said. “The observations we can achieve in our new aircraft are crucial to improving our understanding of the climate system, especially in relation to weather forecasting and human health.”

 


The helicopter, which has been on display at the Donaldson booth (2400) during Heli-Expo, further is equipped with a Donaldson inlet barrier filtration system. The system will protect the engine from potential dirt, dust and salt, as it flies near the ocean and close to the ground while the helicopter’s sensors measures various exchanges between the Earth surface and atmosphere.

 


Following Heli-Expo, the helicopter will fly to Florida for missions in the Everglades and Biscayne Bay.

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