My writing in the Aerospace industry encompasses Avionics, Airlines, Aircraft Manufacturing, and Helicopters. These stories run the gamut from history to the latest trends, and insights into the people who run the industry.
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Standouts In Transportation Fire Detection and Alarm Systems Fire detection and alarm systems are ‘must-haves’ for the global transportation industry, both for fixed and moving assets. [See the story] TRANSPORT SECURITY INTERNATIONAL
The Drone Threat To Airports, and Ways To Counter It: A TSI Roundtable As drones become increasingly more popular in public, their intrusion on airport airspace is becoming an increasingly serious problem. [See the story] ROTOR PRO
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Are Changing How Crews Are Trained There’s a revolution taking place in pilot training, thanks to VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality; also known as mixed reality or MR) [See the story] ROTOR PRO
Best Of 2023 Rotor Tech Roundup Nine companies made our ‘Best of Rotor Tech’ list this year. The accomplishments they racked up during 2023 are truly impressive. Let’s get right to them! [See the story] AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
IT systems become integral to Engine maintenance Now more than ever, airlines and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organizations are seeking ways to improve their engine maintenance programs in a bid to reduce costs and improve turnaround time. [See the story] AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
PMA Parts Market Booming In the world of commercial aviation, PMA (Parts Manufacturer Approval) manufacturers play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and efficiency of aircraft by keeping them flying with high quality parts. [See the story] SPACEQ
NorthStar, SES Sign Deal to Monitor SES’ Satellites in Orbit NorthStar Earth & Space (NorthStar), the a space-based situational awareness startup, has signed satellite operator SES as its first major commercial client. [See the story] ROTOR PRO
Q&A With Pratt & Whitney - Canada Taking Helicopter Engines to the Next Level All around US. technology is changing. The helicopters of our youth are dinosaurs compared to today's aircraft. The modern engines that power these helicopters have become sophisticated, digitally controlled power plants designed to optimize performance and reliability while also reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. [See the story] ROTOR PRO
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ARE CATCHING ON WITH SMALLER OPERATORS - AND GETTING BETTER! There is no doubt that implementing safety management system (SMS) leads to safer, more predictable flight operations for helicopter and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) owners/operators. [See the story] AEROSPACE TECH REVIEW
Winner of the 2023 Aerospace Media Awards Best MRO Submission Blockchain: The Future of Tracking Aircraft Parts? -- Suspected Unapproved Parts (SUPs) is the FAA’s polite term for counterfeit aerospace parts — almost always of inferior quality — that have made their way into the supply chain, and into aircraft. [See the story] |
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Understanding The Security Challenges Of Mass Evacuation The large-scale movement of Palestinians away from Israeli troops advancing into Gaza is just the latest of many mass evacuations to occur in human history. [See the story]he TRANSPORT SECURITY INTERNATIONAL
Airport Body Scanners Trends: A TSI Industry Expert Roundtable According to a January 12, 2024, news release issued by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, this agency screened a record 858+ million passengers in 2023. Although the TSA news release doesn’t say it directly, it is reasonable to assume that most or likely all these people were checked using body scanners for concealed weapons and contraband. [See the story] ROTOR PRO
Helicopters Team With Drones For Law Enforcement Drones and helicopters seem like a marriage made in heaven for law enforcement agencies [See the story] ROTOR PRO
How Drones and Helicopters Can Work Together In Aerial Firefighting Imagine: sometime in the near future, a combined team of drones and helicopters is dispatched to battle a major forest fire. [See the story] AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
SPARE PARTS POOLING THE COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTION TO STOCKING SPARE PARTS An aircraft is a collection of parts all destined to be replaced, and the cost to airlines of stocking spare for those parts can run into the millions of dollars. [See the story] AVIATION MAINTENANCE MAGAZINE
Electronic Tech Logs Whether you call them Electronic Tech Logs (ETLs) or Electronic Log Books (ELBs), the use of digital devices/media for tracking the mechanical/electrical health of aircraft is revolutionizing the aviation maintenance business. [See the story] SPACEQ
Licensing Physicians for Practicing Medicine in Space Who should be allowed to practice medicine in space? The logical answer would seem to be ‘medical doctors’, but the actual answer isn’t as simple as that. [See the story] SPACEQ
Canadian Company Looking to Develop a Nuclear Fission Reactor for the Moon Reliable, consistent electric power is a necessity for establishing human-occupied bases on the Moon. This is why the Canadian Space Mining Corporation (CSMC) of Toronto wants to develop a transportable nuclear fission reactor for use in these locations, under the name ‘Project LEUNR.’ [See the story] ROTOR PRO
How UAVS and EVTOLS will affect helicopter communications The growing use of UAVs (unmanned rollout of VTOLs (manned electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles) will have a far-reaching impact on manned flight, as helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft must share the heavens with them. But how will UAVs and VTOLs affect helicopter communications, especially in controlled airspace, and what will this mean for helicopter pilots and operators? Here's what Rotor Pro has been able to find out. [See the story] |