Manufacturers and outfitters of rotary wing aircraft face many unique challenges when it comes to selecting and installing avionics. Helicopters, like their fixed wing counterparts...
We chose Noel Wilton as this year’s winner. The photo taken by Gerald Paul New of Noel crouched down inspecting a model airplane was a great shot. Joe Escobar also claims it’s...
Magnetos have been around since the early 1900s and have been refined for the last 100 years to give us the reliability we have come to expect from aircraft magnetos. As maintenance...
So why go back to basics? It boils down to a big problem in maintenance — complacency. Webster’s dictionary defines complacency as satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual...
The vibration spectrum survey can bring quite a bit of seemingly unrelated data into an organized format that you can use as a valuable troubleshooting tool.
A phrase familiar to software people goes like this: Garbage in equals garbage out abbreviated as GIGO. This means that if the input data or the software itself was bad (i.e.,...
An inspection program for a large or multi-turbine powered airplane or turbine-powered rotorcraft will generally consist of the following types of inspections: look-phase inspections...
Bill O’Brien talks about what keeps us from the goal of universal professional recognition. The definition of professional contains three major parts: education, recognition, ...
