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Pratt & Whitney Awarded Funding by FAA for $50M Effort to Further Develop Sustainable Propulsion Technologies

East Hartford, Conn., September 20, 2021 – Pratt & Whitney and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are investing $50 million to develop an ultra-quiet engine...

Is the Airbus A330 a Potential VLAT?

Numerous fires have ravaged the south of France during their summer months and concerns persist about increasing wildfire risks in the years to come....

New DOI / USFS Aviation Helmets Standard on flight helmets for Air Tractor Aircraft

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently approved a standard that enables the use of new flight helmets for pilots of Air Tractor® aircraft, models...

Mitigating America’s Wildfire Threat

Having spent much of my adult life in California fighting some of the most catastrophic fires in America's history, about this time every year,...

DART Aerospace – Innovating for a Safer Tomorrow

In the aerospace world, industry juggernaut companies often start with humble beginnings; DART and Simplex Aerospace are two of those companies. With parallel origins,...

CAL FIRE – Changing the Game With the S-70i

When the average person thinks about aerial firefighting, images that come to mind are often of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft dropping water and retardant...

United Rotorcraft Awards Contract to Sikorsky for five S-70™ BLACK HAWK® Helicopters

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado, Aug. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United Rotorcraft, a division of Air Methods Corporation, has awarded Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, a...

Conair Announces the Passing of Barry Marsden, Chairman and CEO

ABBOTSFORD, CANADA (July 29, 2021) – It is with profound sadness that Conair Group Inc. announces that Barry Marsden, one of the company’s founding...

Real-life Dusty Crophopper is headed to the Smithsonian

Air Tractor® “Dusty Crophopper” takes its place beside aviation legends. On Aug. 3, the National Agricultural Aviation Association will present to the Smithsonian Institution’s National...

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