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Everett Aviation - Solango Rescue

Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:40:19 CDT

http://www.everettaviation.com/events.html This young Elephant, named Solango fell down a well and was abandoned by the herd. We rescued it and took him to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage http://www.everettaviation.com/events.html http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp?N=39 Name Gender Date Born Location Found Age on Arrival Comments Reason for being Orphaned SOLANGO Male September 2001 Seraa Group ranch near to Shaba National Reserve 4 Weeks old Fell into a deep rocky water catchment well on Seraa Group ranch Drought Related Latest Updates on SOLANGO: * 6/18/03 - SERAA, MPALA & MORANI GRADUATE FROM THE NAIROBI NURSERY * 5/27/02 - Mweya and Sweet Sally leave the Nursery View to Location map for SOLANGO (opens a new window) http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/asp/orphan_profile.asp?N=39

An Elephant Crackup?

Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:37:10 CDT

New York Times Story brought to you by Everett Aviation www.everettaviation.com October 8, 2006 An Elephant Crackup? By CHARLES SIEBERT http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=2f4c1325fc329fe2&ex=1160452800&pagewanted=all ‘We’re not going anywhere,” my driver, Nelson Okello, whispered to me one morning this past June, the two of us sitting in the front seat of a jeep just after dawn in Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwestern Uganda. We’d originally stopped to observe what appeared to be a lone bull elephant grazing in a patch of tall savanna grasses off to our left. More than one “rogue” crossed our path that morning — a young male elephant that has made an overly strong power play against the dominant male of his herd and been banished, sometimes permanently. This elephant, however, soon proved to be not a rogue but part of a cast of at least 30. The ground vibrations registered just before the emergence of the herd from the surrounding trees and brush. We sat there watching the elephants cross the road before us, seeming, for all their heft, so light on their feet, soundlessly plying the wind-swept savanna grasses like land whales adrift above the floor of an ancient, waterless sea. Then, from behind a thicket of acacia trees directly off our front left bumper, a huge female emerged — “the matriarch,” Okello said softly. There was a small calf beneath her, freely foraging and knocking about within the secure cribbing of four massive legs. Acacia leaves are an elephant’s favorite food, and as the calf set to work on some low branches, the matriarch stood guard, her vast back flank blocking the road, the rest of the herd milling about in the brush a short distance away. After 15 minutes or so, Okello started inching the jeep forward, revving the engine, trying to make us sound as beastly as possible. The matriarch, however, was having none of it, holding her ground, the fierce white of her eyes as bright as that of her tusks. Although I pretty much knew the answer, I asked Okello if he was considering trying to drive around. “No,” he said, raising an index finger for emphasis. “She’ll charge. We should stay right here.” I’d have considered it a wise policy even at a more peaceable juncture in the course of human-elephant relations. In recent years, however, those relations have become markedly more bellicose. Just two days before I arrived, a woman was killed by an elephant in Kazinga, a fishing village nearby. Two months earlier, a man was fatally gored by a young male elephant at the northern edge of the park, near the village of Katwe. African elephants use their long tusks to forage through dense jungle brush. They’ve also been known to wield them, however, with the ceremonious flash and precision of gladiators, pinning down a victim with one knee in order to deliver the decisive thrust. Okello told me that a young Indian tourist was killed in this fashion two years ago in Murchison Falls National Park, just north of where we were. These were not isolated incidents. All across Africa, India and parts of Southeast Asia, from within and around whatever patches and corridors of their natural habitat remain, elephants have been striking out, destroying villages and crops, attacking and killing human beings. In fact, these attacks have become so commonplace that a whole new statistical category, known as Human-Elephant Conflict, or H.E.C., was created by elephant researchers in the mid-1990’s to monitor the problem. In the Indian state Jharkhand near the western border of Bangladesh, 300 people were killed by elephants between 2000 and 2004. In the past 12 years, elephants have killed 605 people in Assam, a state in northeastern India, 239 of them since 2001; 265 elephants have died in that same period, the majority of them as a result of retaliation by angry villagers, who have used everything from poison-tipped arrows to laced food to exact their revenge. In Africa, reports of human-elephant conflicts appear almost daily, from Zambia to Tanzania, from Uganda to Sierra Leone, where 300 villagers evacuated their homes last year because of unprovoked elephant attacks. Still, it is not only the increasing number of these incidents that is causing alarm but also the singular perversity — for want of a less anthropocentric term — of recent elephant aggression. Since the early 1990’s, for example, young male elephants in Pilanesberg National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa have been raping and killing rhinoceroses; this abnormal behavior, according to a 2001 study in the journal Pachyderm, has been reported in “a number of reserves” in the region. In July of last year, officials in Pilanesberg shot three young male elephants who were responsible for the killings of 63 rhinos, as well as attacks on people in safari vehicles. In Addo Elephant National Park, also in South Africa, up to 90 percent of male elephant deaths are now attributable to other male elephants, compared with a rate of 6 percent in more stable elephant communities. In a coming book on this phenomenon, Gay Bradshaw, a psychologist at the environmental-sciences program at Oregon State University, notes that in India, where the elephant has long been regarded as a deity, a recent headline in a leading newspaper warned, “To Avoid Confrontation, Don’t Worship Elephants.” “Everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants and people has dramatically changed,” Bradshaw told me recently. “What we are seeing today is extraordinary. Where for centuries humans and elephants lived in relative peaceful coexistence, there is now hostility and violence. Now, I use the term ‘violence’ because of the intentionality associated with it, both in the aggression of humans and, at times, the recently observed behavior of elephants.” For a number of biologists and ethologists who have spent their careers studying elephant behavior, the attacks have become so abnormal in both number and kind that they can no longer be attributed entirely to the customary factors. Typically, elephant researchers have cited, as a cause of aggression, the high levels of testosterone in newly matured male elephants or the competition for land and resources between elephants and humans. But in “Elephant Breakdown,” a 2005 essay in the journal Nature, Bradshaw and several colleagues argued that today’s elephant populations are suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma. Decades of poaching and culling and habitat loss, they claim, have so disrupted the intricate web of familial and societal relations by which young elephants have traditionally been raised in the wild, and by which established elephant herds are governed, that what we are now witnessing is nothing less than a precipitous collapse of elephant culture. It has long been apparent that every large, land-based animal on this planet is ultimately fighting a losing battle with humankind. And yet entirely befitting of an animal with such a highly developed sensibility, a deep-rooted sense of family and, yes, such a good long-term memory, the elephant is not going out quietly. It is not leaving without making some kind of statement, one to which scientists from a variety of disciplines, including human psychology, are now beginning to pay close attention. Once the matriarch and her calf were a comfortable distance from us that morning, Okello and I made the 20-minute drive to Kyambura, a village at the far southeastern edge of the park. Back in 2003, Kyambura was reportedly the site of the very sort of sudden, unprovoked elephant attack I’d been hearing about. According to an account of the event in the magazine New Scientist, a number of huts and fields were trampled, and the townspeople were afraid to venture out to surrounding villages, either by foot or on their bikes, because elephants were regularly blocking the road and charging out at those who tried to pass. Park officials from the Uganda Wildlife Authority with whom I tried to discuss the incident were reluctant to talk about it or any of the recent killings by elephants in the area. Eco-tourism is one of Uganda’s major sources of income, and the elephant and other wildlife stocks of Queen Elizabeth National Park are only just now beginning to recover from years of virtually unchecked poaching and habitat destruction. Tom Okello, the chief game warden at the park (and no relation to my driver), and Margaret Driciru, Queen Elizabeth’s chief veterinarian, each told me that they weren’t aware of the attack in Kyambura. When I mentioned it to the executive director of the wildlife authority, Moses Mapesa, upon my initial arrival in the capital city, Kampala, he eventually admitted that it did happen, but he claimed that it was not nearly as recent as reported. “That was 14 years ago,” he said. “We have seen aggressive behavior from elephants, but that’s a story of the past.” Kyambura did look, upon our arrival, much like every other small Ugandan farming community I’d passed through on my visit. Lush fields of banana trees, millet and maize framed a small town center of pastel-colored single-story cement buildings with corrugated-tin roofs. People sat on stoops out front in the available shade. Bicyclers bore preposterously outsize loads of bananas, firewood and five-gallon water jugs on their fenders and handlebars. Contrary to what I had read, the bicycle traffic along the road in and out of Kyambura didn’t seem impaired in the slightest. But when Okello and I asked a shopkeeper named Ibrah Byamukama about elephant attacks, he immediately nodded and pointed to a patch of maize and millet fields just up the road, along the edges of the surrounding Maramagambo Forest. He confirmed that a small group of elephants charged out one morning two years earlier, trampled the fields and nearby gardens, knocked down a few huts and then left. He then pointed to a long orange gash in the earth between the planted fields and the forest: a 15-foot-deep, 25-foot-wide trench that had been dug by the wildlife authority around the perimeter of Kyambura in an attempt to keep the elephants at bay. On the way out of town, Okello and I took a closer look at the trench. It was filled with stacks of thorny shrubs for good measure. “The people are still worried,” Byamukama said, shaking his head. “The elephants are just becoming more destructive. I don’t know why.” Three years ago, Gay Bradshaw, then working on her graduate degree in psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute outside Santa Barbara, Calif., began wondering much the same thing: was the extraordinary behavior of elephants in Africa and Asia signaling a breaking point? With the assistance of several established African-elephant researchers, including Daphne Sheldrick and Cynthia Moss, and with the help of Allan Schore, an expert on human trauma disorders at the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at U.C.L.A., Bradshaw sought to combine traditional research into elephant behavior with insights about trauma drawn from human neuroscience. Using the few remaining relatively stable elephant herds in places like Amboseli National Park in Kenya, as control groups, Bradshaw and her colleagues analyzed the far more fractious populations found in places like Pilanesberg in South Africa and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. What emerged was a portrait of pervasive pachyderm dysfunction. Elephants, when left to their own devices, are profoundly social creatures. A herd of them is, in essence, one incomprehensibly massive elephant: a somewhat loosely bound and yet intricately interconnected, tensile organism. Young elephants are raised within an extended, multitiered network of doting female caregivers that includes the birth mother, grandmothers, aunts and friends. These relations are maintained over a life span as long as 70 years. Studies of established herds have shown that young elephants stay within 15 feet of their mothers for nearly all of their first eight years of life, after which young females are socialized into the matriarchal network, while young males go off for a time into an all-male social group before coming back into the fold as mature adults. When an elephant dies, its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals, conducting weeklong vigils over the body, carefully covering it with earth and brush, revisiting the bones for years afterward, caressing the bones with their trunks, often taking turns rubbing their trunks along the teeth of a skull’s lower jaw, the way living elephants do in greeting. If harm comes to a member of an elephant group, all the other elephants are aware of it. This sense of cohesion is further enforced by the elaborate communication system that elephants use. In close proximity they employ a range of vocalizations, from low-frequency rumbles to higher-pitched screams and trumpets, along with a variety of visual signals, from the waving of their trunks to subtle anglings of the head, body, feet and tail. When communicating over long distances — in order to pass along, for example, news about imminent threats, a sudden change of plans or, of the utmost importance to elephants, the death of a community member — they use patterns of subsonic vibrations that are felt as far as several miles away by exquisitely tuned sensors in the padding of their feet. This fabric of elephant society, Bradshaw and her colleagues concluded, had effectively been frayed by years of habitat loss and poaching, along with systematic culling by government agencies to control elephant numbers and translocations of herds to different habitats. The number of older matriarchs and female caregivers (or “allomothers”) had drastically fallen, as had the number of elder bulls, who play a significant role in keeping younger males in line. In parts of Zambia and Tanzania, a number of the elephant groups studied contained no adult females whatsoever. In Uganda, herds were often found to be “semipermanent aggregations,” as a paper written by Bradshaw describes them, with many females between the ages of 15 and 25 having no familial associations. As a result of such social upheaval, calves are now being born to and raised by ever younger and inexperienced mothers. Young orphaned elephants, meanwhile, that have witnessed the death of a parent at the hands of poachers are coming of age in the absence of the support system that defines traditional elephant life. “The loss of elephants elders,” Bradshaw told me, “and the traumatic experience of witnessing the massacres of their family, impairs normal brain and behavior development in young elephants.” What Bradshaw and her colleagues describe would seem to be an extreme form of anthropocentric conjecture if the evidence that they’ve compiled from various elephant resesarchers, even on the strictly observational level, wasn’t so compelling. The elephants of decimated herds, especially orphans who’ve watched the death of their parents and elders from poaching and culling, exhibit behavior typically associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders in humans: abnormal startle response, unpredictable asocial behavior, inattentive mothering and hyperaggression. Studies of the various assaults on the rhinos in South Africa, meanwhile, have determined that the perpetrators were in all cases adolescent males that had witnessed their families being shot down in cullings. It was common for these elephants to have been tethered to the bodies of their dead and dying relatives until they could be rounded up for translocation to, as Bradshaw and Schore describe them, “locales lacking traditional social hierarchy of older bulls and intact natal family structures.” In fact, even the relatively few attempts that park officials have made to restore parts of the social fabric of elephant society have lent substance to the elephant-breakdown theory. When South African park rangers recently introduced a number of older bull elephants into several destabilized elephant herds in Pilanesburg and Addo, the wayward behavior — including unusually premature hormonal changes among the adolescent elephants — abated. But according to Bradshaw and her colleagues, the various pieces of the elephant-trauma puzzle really come together at the level of neuroscience, or what might be called the physiology of psychology, by which scientists can now map the marred neuronal fields, snapped synaptic bridges and crooked chemical streams of an embattled psyche. Though most scientific knowledge of trauma is still understood through research on human subjects, neural studies of elephants are now under way. (The first functional M.R.I. scan of an elephant brain, taken this year, revealed, perhaps not surprisingly, a huge hippocampus, a seat of memory in the mammalian brain, as well as a prominent structure in the limbic system, which processes emotions.) Allan Schore, the U.C.L.A. psychologist and neuroscientist who for the past 15 years has focused his research on early human brain development and the negative impact of trauma on it, recently wrote two articles with Bradshaw on the stress-related neurobiological underpinnings of current abnormal elephant behavior. “We know that these mechanisms cut across species,” Schore told me. “In the first years of humans as well as elephants, development of the emotional brain is impacted by these attachment mechanisms, by the interaction that the infant has with the primary caregiver, especially the mother. When these early experiences go in a positive way, it leads to greater resilience in things like affect regulation, stress regulation, social communication and empathy. But when these early experiences go awry in cases of abuse and neglect, there is a literal thinning down of the essential circuits in the brain, especially in the emotion-processing areas.” For Bradshaw, these continuities between human and elephant brains resonate far outside the field of neuroscience. “Elephants are suffering and behaving in the same ways that we recognize in ourselves as a result of violence,” she told me. “Elephant behavior is entirely congruent with what we know about humans and other mammals. Except perhaps for a few specific features, brain organization and early development of elephants and humans are extremely similar. That’s not news. What is news is when you start asking, What does this mean beyond the science? How do we respond to the fact that we are causing other species like elephants to psychologically break down? In a way, it’s not so much a cognitive or imaginative leap anymore as it is a political one.” Eve Abe says that in her mind, she made that leap before she ever left her mother’s womb. An animal ethologist and wildlife-management consultant now based in London, Abe (pronounced AH-bay) grew up in northern Uganda. After several years of studying elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, where decades of poaching had drastically reduced the herds, Abe received her doctorate at Cambridge University in 1994 for work detailing the parallels she saw between the plight of Uganda’s orphaned male elephants and the young male orphans of her own people, the Acholi, whose families and villages have been decimated by years of civil war. It’s work she proudly proclaims to be not only “the ultimate act of anthropomorphism” but also what she was destined to do. “My very first encounter with an elephant was a fetal one,” Abe told me in June in London as the two of us sipped tea at a cafe in Paddington Station. I was given Abe’s contact numbers earlier in the spring by Bradshaw, who is currently working with Abe to build a community center in Uganda to help both elephants and humans in their recovery from violence. For more than a month before my departure from New York, I had been trying without luck to arrange with the British Home Office for Abe, who is still waiting for permanent residence status in England, to travel with me to Uganda as my guide through Queen Elizabeth National Park without fear of her being denied re-entry to England. She was to accompany me that day right up to the departure gate at Heathrow, the two of us hoping (in vain, as it turned out) for a last-minute call that would have given her leave to use the ticket I was holding for her in my bag. “My dad was a conservationist and a teacher,” explained Abe, a tall, elegant woman with a trilling, nearly girlish voice. “He was always out in the parks. One of my aunts tells this story about us passing through Murchison park one day. My dad was driving. My uncle was in the front seat. In the back were my aunt and my mom, who was very pregnant with me. They suddenly came upon this huge herd of elephants on the road, and the elephants just stopped. So my dad stopped. He knew about animals. The elephants just stood there, then they started walking around the car, and looking into the car. Finally, they walked off. But my father didn’t start the car then. He waited there. After an hour or more, a huge female came back out onto the road, right in front of the car. It reared up and trumpeted so loudly, then followed the rest of the herd back into the bush. A few days later, when my mom got home, I was born.” Abe began her studies in Queen Elizabeth National Park in 1982, as an undergraduate at Makerere University in Kampala, shortly after she and her family, who’d been living for years as refugees in Kenya to escape the brutal violence in Uganda under the dictatorship of Idi Amin, returned home in the wake of Amin’s ouster in 1979. Abe told me that when she first arrived at the park, there were fewer than 150 elephants remaining from an original population of nearly 4,000. The bulk of the decimation occurred during the war with Tanzania that led to Amin’s overthrow: soldiers from both armies grabbed all the ivory they could get their hands on — and did so with such cravenness that the word “poaching” seems woefully inadequate. “Normally when you say ‘poaching,’ ” Abe said, “you think of people shooting one or two and going off. But this was war. They’d just throw hand grenades at the elephants, bring whole families down and cut out the ivory. I call that mass destruction.” The last elephant survivors of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Abe said, never left one another’s side. They kept in a tight bunch, moving as one. Only one elderly female remained; Abe estimated her to be at least 62. It was this matriarch who first gathered the survivors together from their various hideouts on the park’s forested fringes and then led them back out as one group into open savanna. Until her death in the early 90’s, the old female held the group together, the population all the while slowly beginning to rebound. In her yet-to-be-completed memoir, “My Elephants and My People,” Abe writes of the prominence of the matriarch in Acholi society; she named the park’s matriarchal elephant savior Lady Irene, after her own mother. “It took that core group of survivors in the park about five or six years,” Abe told me, “before I started seeing whole new family units emerge and begin to split off and go their own way.” In 1986, Abe’s family was forced to flee the country again. Violence against Uganda’s people and elephants never completely abated after Amin’s regime collapsed, and it drastically worsened in the course of the full-fledged war that developed between government forces and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. For years, that army’s leader, Joseph Kony, routinely “recruited” from Acholi villages, killing the parents of young males before their eyes, or sometimes having them do the killings themselves, before pressing them into service as child soldiers. The Lord’s Resistance Army has by now been largely defeated, but Kony, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for numerous crimes against humanity, has hidden with what remains of his army in the mountains of Murchison Falls National Park, and more recently in Garamba National Park in northern Congo, where poaching by the Lord’s Resistance Army has continued to orphan more elephants. “I started looking again at what has happened among the Acholi and the elephants,” Abe told me. “I saw that it is an absolute coincidence between the two. You know we used to have villages. We still don’t have villages. There are over 200 displaced people’s camps in present-day northern Uganda. Everybody lives now within these camps, and there are no more elders. The elders were systematically eliminated. The first batch of elimination was during Amin’s time, and that set the stage for the later destruction of northern Uganda. We are among the lucky few, because my mom and dad managed to escape. But the families there are just broken. I know many of them. Displaced people are living in our home now. My mother said let them have it. All these kids who have grown up with their parents killed — no fathers, no mothers, only children looking after them. They don’t go to schools. They have no schools, no hospitals. No infrastructure. They form these roaming, violent, destructive bands. It’s the same thing that happens with the elephants. Just like the male war orphans, they are wild, completely lost.” On the ride from Paddington that afternoon out to Heathrow, where I would catch a flight to Uganda, Abe told me that the parallel between the plight of Ugandans and their elephants was in many ways too close for her to see at first. It was only after she moved to London that she had what was, in a sense, her first full, adult recognition of the entwinement between human and elephant that she says she long ago felt in her mother’s womb. “I remember when I first was working on my doctorate,” she said. “I mentioned that I was doing this parallel once to a prominent scientist in Kenya. He looked amazed. He said, ‘How come nobody has made this connection before?’ I told him because it hadn’t happened this way to anyone else’s tribe before. To me it’s something I see so clearly. Most people are scared of showing that kind of anthropomorphism. But coming from me it doesn’t sound like I’m inventing something. It’s there. People know it’s there. Some might think that the way I describe the elephant attacks makes the animals look like people. But people are animals.” Shortly after my return from Uganda, I went to visit the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, a 2,700-acre rehabilitation center and retirement facility situated in the state’s verdant, low-rolling southern hill country. The sanctuary is a kind of asylum for some of the more emotionally and psychologically disturbed former zoo and circus elephants in the United States — cases so bad that the people who profited from them were eager to let them go. Given that elephants in the wild are now exhibiting aberrant behaviors that were long observed in captive elephants, it perhaps follows that a positive working model for how to ameliorate the effects of elephant breakdown can be found in captivity. Of the 19 current residents of the sanctuary, perhaps the biggest hard-luck story was that of a 40-year-old, five-ton Asian elephant named Misty. Originally captured as a calf in India in 1966, Misty spent her first decade in captivity with a number of American circuses and finally ended up in the early 80’s at a wild-animal attraction known as Lion Country Safari in Irvine, Calif. It was there, on the afternoon of July 25, 1983, that Misty, one of four performing elephants at Lion Country Safari that summer, somehow managed to break free of her chains and began madly dashing about the park, looking to make an escape. When one of the park’s zoologists tried to corner and contain her, Misty killed him with one swipe of her trunk. There are, in the long, checkered history of human-elephant relations, countless stories of lethal elephantine assaults, and almost invariably of some gruesomely outsize, animalistic form of retribution exacted by us. It was in the very state of Tennessee, back in September 1916, that another five-ton Asian circus elephant, Mary, was impounded by a local sheriff for the killing of a young hotel janitor who’d been hired to mind Mary during a stopover in the northeast Tennessee town of Kingsport. The janitor had apparently taken Mary for a swim at a local pond, where, according to witnesses, he poked her behind the left ear with a metal hook just as she was reaching for a piece of floating watermelon rind. Enraged, Mary turned, swiftly snatched him up with her trunk, dashed him against a refreshment stand and then smashed his head with her foot. With cries from the townspeople to “Kill the elephant!” and threats from nearby town leaders to bar the circus if “Murderous Mary,” as newspapers quickly dubbed her, remained a part of the show, the circus’s owner, Charlie Sparks, knew he had to do something to appease the public’s blood lust and save his business. Among the penalties he is said to have contemplated was electrocution, a ghastly precedent for which had been set 13 years earlier, on the grounds of the nearly completed Luna Park in Coney Island. A longtime circus elephant named Topsy, who’d killed three trainers in as many years — the last one after he tried to feed her a lighted cigarette — would become the largest and most prominent victim of Thomas Edison, the father of direct-current electricity, who had publicly electrocuted a number of animals at that time using his rival George Westinghouse’s alternating current, in hopes of discrediting it as being too dangerous. Sparks ultimately decided to have Mary hanged and shipped her by train to the nearby town of Erwin, Tenn., where more than 2,500 people gathered at the local rail yard for her execution. Dozens of children are said to have run off screaming in terror when the chain that was suspended from a huge industrial crane snapped, leaving Mary writhing on the ground with a broken hip. A local rail worker promptly clambered up Mary’s bulk and secured a heavier chain for a second, successful hoisting. Misty’s fate in the early 80’s, by contrast, seems a triumph of modern humanism. Banished, after the Lion Safari killing, to the Hawthorn Corporation, a company in Illinois that trains and leases elephants and tigers to circuses, she would continue to lash out at a number of her trainers over the years. But when Hawthorn was convicted of numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act in 2003, the company agreed to relinquish custody of Misty to the Elephant Sanctuary. She was loaded onto a trailer transport on the morning of Nov. 17, 2004, and even then managed to get away with one final shot at the last in her long line of captors. “The details are kind of sketchy,” Carol Buckley, a founder of the Elephant Sanctuary, said to me one afternoon in July, the two of us pulling up on her all-terrain four-wheeler to a large grassy enclosure where an extremely docile and contented-looking Misty, trunk high, ears flapping, waited to greet us. “Hawthorn’s owner was trying to get her to stretch out so he could remove her leg chains before loading her on the trailer. At one point he prodded her with a bull hook, and she just knocked him down with a swipe of her trunk. But we’ve seen none of that since she’s been here. She’s as sweet as can be. You’d never know that this elephant killed anybody.” In the course of her nearly two years at the Elephant Sanctuary — much of it spent in quarantine while undergoing daily treatment for tuberculosis — Misty has also been in therapy, as in psychotherapy. Wild-caught elephants often witness as young calves the slaughter of their parents, just about the only way, shy of a far more costly tranquilization procedure, to wrest a calf from elephant parents, especially the mothers. The young captives are then dispatched to a foreign environment to work either as performers or laborers, all the while being kept in relative confinement and isolation, a kind of living death for an animal as socially developed and dependent as we now know elephants to be. And yet just as we now understand that elephants hurt like us, we’re learning that they can heal like us as well. Indeed, Misty has become a testament to the Elephant Sanctuary’s signature “passive control” system, a therapy tailored in many ways along the lines of those used to treat human sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. Passive control, as a sanctuary newsletter describes it, depends upon “knowledge of how elephants process information and respond to stress” as well as specific knowledge of each elephant’s past response to stress. Under this so-called nondominance system, there is no discipline, retaliation or withholding of food, water and treats, which are all common tactics of elephant trainers. Great pains are taken, meanwhile, to afford the elephants both a sense of safety and freedom of choice — two mainstays of human trauma therapy — as well as continual social interaction. Upon her arrival at the Elephant Sanctuary, Misty seemed to sense straight off the different vibe of her new home. When Scott Blais of the sanctuary went to free Misty’s still-chained leg a mere day after she’d arrived, she stood peaceably by, practically offering her leg up to him. Over her many months of quarantine, meanwhile, with only humans acting as a kind of surrogate elephant family, she has consistently gone through the daily rigors of her tuberculosis treatments — involving two caregivers, a team of veterinarians and the use of a restraining chute in which harnesses are secured about her chest and tail — without any coaxing or pressure. “We’ll shower her with praise in the barn afterwards,” Buckley told me as Misty stood by, chomping on a mouthful of hay, “and she actually purrs with pleasure. The whole barn vibrates.” Of course, Misty’s road to recovery — when viewed in light of her history and that of all the other captive elephants, past and present — is as harrowing as it is heartening. She and the others have suffered, we now understand, not simply because of us, but because they are, by and large, us. If as recently as the end of the Vietnam War people were still balking at the idea that a soldier, for example, could be physically disabled by a psychological harm — the idea, in other words, that the mind is not an entity apart from the body and therefore just as woundable as any limb — we now find ourselves having to make an equally profound and, for many, even more difficult leap: that a fellow creature as ostensibly unlike us in every way as an elephant is as precisely and intricately woundable as we are. And while such knowledge naturally places an added burden upon us, the keepers, that burden is now being greatly compounded by the fact that sudden violent outbursts like Misty’s can no longer be dismissed as the inevitable isolated revolts of a restless few against the constraints and abuses of captivity. They have no future without us. The question we are now forced to grapple with is whether we would mind a future without them, among the more mindful creatures on this earth and, in many ways, the most devoted. Indeed, the manner of the elephants’ continued keeping, their restoration and conservation, both in civil confines and what’s left of wild ones, is now drawing the attention of everyone from naturalists to neuroscientists. Too much about elephants, in the end — their desires and devotions, their vulnerability and tremendous resilience — reminds us of ourselves to dismiss out of hand this revolt they’re currently staging against their own dismissal. And while our concern may ultimately be rooted in that most human of impulses — the preservation of our own self-image — the great paradox about this particular moment in our history with elephants is that saving them will require finally getting past ourselves; it will demand the ultimate act of deep, interspecies empathy. On a more immediate, practical level, as Gay Bradshaw sees it, this involves taking what has been learned about elephant society, psychology and emotion and inculcating that knowledge into the conservation schemes of researchers and park rangers. This includes doing things like expanding elephant habitat to what it used to be historically and avoiding the use of culling and translocations as conservation tools. “If we want elephants around,” Bradshaw told me, “then what we need to do is simple: learn how to live with elephants. In other words, in addition to conservation, we need to educate people how to live with wild animals like humans used to do, and to create conditions whereby people can live on their land and live with elephants without it being this life-and-death situation.” The other part of our newly emerging compact with elephants, however, is far more difficult to codify. It requires nothing less than a fundamental shift in the way we look at animals and, by extension, ourselves. It requires what Bradshaw somewhat whimsically refers to as a new “trans-species psyche,” a commitment to move beyond an anthropocentric frame of reference and, in effect, be elephants. Two years ago, Bradshaw wrote a paper for the journal Society and Animals, focusing on the work of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, a sanctuary for orphaned and traumatized wild elephants — more or less the wilderness-based complement to Carol Buckley’s trauma therapy at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. The trust’s human caregivers essentially serve as surrogate mothers to young orphan elephants, gradually restoring their psychological and emotional well being to the point at which they can be reintroduced into existing wild herds. The human “allomothers” stay by their adopted young orphans’ sides, even sleeping with them at night in stables. The caregivers make sure, however, to rotate from one elephant to the next so that the orphans grow fond of all the keepers. Otherwise an elephant would form such a strong bond with one keeper that whenever he or she was absent, that elephant would grieve as if over the loss of another family member, often becoming physically ill itself. To date, the Sheldrick Trust has successfully rehabilitated more than 60 elephants and reintroduced them into wild herds. A number of them have periodically returned to the sanctuary with their own wild-born calves in order to reunite with their human allomothers and to introduce their offspring to what — out on this uncharted frontier of the new “trans-species psyche” — is now being recognized, at least by the elephants, it seems, as a whole new subspecies: the human allograndmother. “Traditionally, nature has served as a source of healing for humans,” Bradshaw told me. “Now humans can participate actively in the healing of both themselves and nonhuman animals. The trust and the sanctuary are the beginnings of a mutually benefiting interspecies culture.” On my way back to New York via London, I contacted Felicity de Zulueta, a psychiatrist at Maudsley Hospital in London who treats victims of extreme trauma, among them former child soldiers from the Lord’s Resistance Army. De Zulueta, an acquaintance of Eve Abe’s, grew up in Uganda in the early 1960’s on the outskirts of Queen Elizabeth National Park, near where her father, a malaria doctor, had set up camp as part of a malaria-eradication program. For a time she had her own elephant, orphaned by poaching, that local villagers had given to her father, who brought it home to the family garage, where it immediately bonded with an orphan antelope and dog already residing there. “He was doing fine,” de Zulueta told me of the pet elephant. “My mother was loving it and feeding it, and then my parents realized, How can we keep this elephant that is going to grow bigger than the garage? So they gave it to who they thought were the experts. They sent him to the Entebbe Zoo, and although they gave him all the right food and everything, he was a lonely little elephant, and he died. He had no attachment.” For de Zulueta, the parallel that Abe draws between the plight of war orphans, human and elephant, is painfully apt, yet also provides some cause for hope, given the often startling capacity of both animals for recovery. She told me that one Ugandan war orphan she is currently treating lost all the members of his family except for two older brothers. Remarkably, one of those brothers, while serving in the Ugandan Army, rescued the younger sibling from the Lord’s Resistance Army; the older brother’s unit had captured the rebel battalion in which his younger brother had been forced to fight. The two brothers eventually made their way to London, and for the past two years, the younger brother has been going through a gradual process of recovery in the care of Maudsley Hospital. Much of the rehabilitation, according to de Zulueta, especially in the early stages, relies on the basic human trauma therapy principles now being applied to elephants: providing decent living quarters, establishing a sense of safety and of attachment to a larger community and allowing freedom of choice. After that have come the more complex treatments tailored to the human brain’s particular cognitive capacities: things like reliving the original traumatic experience and being taught to modulate feelings through early detection of hyperarousal and through breathing techniques. And the healing of trauma, as de Zulueta describes it, turns out to have physical correlatives in the brain just as its wounding does. “What I say is, we find bypass,” she explained. “We bypass the wounded areas using various techniques. Some of the wounds are not healable. Their scars remain. But there is hope because the brain is an enormous computer, and you can learn to bypass its wounds by finding different methods of approaching life. Of course there may be moments when something happens and the old wound becomes unbearable. Still, people do recover. The boy I’ve been telling you about is 18 now, and he has survived very well in terms of his emotional health and capacities. He’s a lovely, lovely man. And he’s a poet. He writes beautiful poetry.” On the afternoon in July that I left the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, Carol Buckley and Scott Blais seemed in particularly good spirits. Misty was only weeks away from the end of her quarantine, and she would soon be able to socialize with some of her old cohorts from the Hawthorn Corporation: eight female Asians that had been given over to the sanctuary. I would meet the lot of them that day, driving from one to the next on the back of Buckley’s four-wheeler across the sanctuary’s savanna-like stretches. Buckley and Blais refer to them collectively as the Divas. Buckley and Blais told me that they got word not long ago of a significant breakthrough in a campaign of theirs to get elephants out of entertainment and zoos: the Bronx Zoo, one of the oldest and most formidable zoos in the country, had announced that upon the death of the zoo’s three current elephant inhabitants, Patty, Maxine and Happy, it would phase out its elephant exhibit on social-behavioral grounds — an acknowledgment of a new awareness of the elephant’s very particular sensibility and needs. “They’re really taking the lead,” Buckley told me. “Zoos don’t want to concede the inappropriateness of keeping elephants in such confines. But if we as a society determine that an animal like this suffers in captivity, if the information shows us that they do, hey, we are the stewards. You’d think we’d want to do the right thing.” Four days later, I received an e-mail message from Gay Bradshaw, who consults with Buckley and Blais on their various stress-therapy strategies. She wrote that one of the sanctuary’s elephants, an Asian named Winkie, had just killed a 36-year-old female assistant caretaker and critically injured the male caretaker who’d tried to save her. People who work with animals on a daily basis can tell you all kinds of stories about their distinct personalities and natures. I’d gotten, in fact, an elaborate breakdown from Buckley and Blais on the various elephants at the sanctuary and their sociopolitical maneuverings within the sanctuary’s distinct elephant culture, and I went to my notebook to get a fix again on Winkie. A 40-year-old, 7,600-pound female from Burma, she came to the sanctuary in 2000 from the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wisc., where she had a reputation for lashing out at keepers. When Winkie first arrived at the sanctuary, Buckley told me, she used to jump merely upon being touched and then would wait for a confrontation. But when it never came, she slowly calmed down. “Has never lashed out at primary keepers,” my last note on Winkie reads, “but has at secondary ones.” Bradshaw’s e-mail message concludes: “A stunning illustration of trauma in elephants. The indelible etching.” I thought back to a moment in Queen Elizabeth National Park this past June. As Nelson Okello and I sat waiting for the matriarch and her calf to pass, he mentioned to me an odd little detail about the killing two months earlier of the man from the village of Katwe, something that, the more I thought about it, seemed to capture this particularly fraught moment we’ve arrived at with the elephants. Okello said that after the man’s killing, the elephant herd buried him as it would one of its own, carefully covering the body with earth and brush and then standing vigil over it. Even as we’re forcing them out, it seems, the elephants are going out of their way to put us, the keepers, in an ever more discomfiting place, challenging us to preserve someplace for them, the ones who in many ways seem to regard the matter of life and death more devoutly than we. In fact, elephant culture could be considered the precursor of our own, the first permanent human settlements having sprung up around the desire of wandering tribes to stay by the graves of their dead. “The city of the dead,” as Lewis Mumford once wrote, “antedates the city of the living.” When a group of villagers from Katwe went out to reclaim the man’s body for his family’s funeral rites, the elephants refused to budge. Human remains, a number of researchers have observed, are the only other ones that elephants will treat as they do their own. In the end, the villagers resorted to a tactic that has long been etched in the elephant’s collective memory, firing volleys of gunfire into the air at close range, finally scaring the mourning herd away. Charles Siebert, a contributing writer, is at work on “Humanzee,” a book about humans and chimpanzees. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08elephant.html?ei=5087%0A&em=&en=2f4c1325fc329fe2&ex=1160452800&pagewanted=all New York Times Story brought to you by Everett Aviation www.everettaviation.com

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Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:54:32 CDT

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Everett Luftfahrt: Hubschrauber-Charter, Charter-Dienstleistungen

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:43:42 CDT

Hubschrauber-Charter > Charter-Dienstleistungen http://www.google.com/translate?u=http://www.everettaviation.com/charter.html&langpair=en|de Everett Luftfahrt bietet eine breite Strecke der Charterservices mit unseren Hubschraubern an. Wenn sie sicher getan werden kann, tun wir sie für dich! Durch reichend von den regelmäßigen Passagiercharters, VIPs, externe Last zu den Babyelefanten, wenn es in einen Hubschrauber verschoben werden kann, können wir ihn für dich ganz tun überschuß Ostafrika. Wir funktionieren regelmäßig in Kenia, in Tanzania, in Uganda, in Äthiopien, in Mosambik, in Malawi und in Sudan. Wir funktionieren in Somalia auf Antrag und abhängig von Einschätzung der Aufgabe und ganz über dem Rest von Afrika auf Nachfrage. Wir sind in der Lage, lange übermäßigabstände kurzfristig, für Rettung u. regelmäßige Flüge zu entfalten. Flug-Dienstleistungen Hubschrauber sind extrem flexibles und nützliches Flugzeug. Die unterschiedlichen Chartermöglichkeiten sind fast endlos. Unter ist eine Liste unserer Hauptdienstleistungen, obgleich wir ständig neue Bereiche finden, in denen funktionieren. Wenn du nicht deine ideale Charter in der Liste findest, der gerechte Anruf, zum deiner Ideen mit unserem Betriebe Personal im Detail zu besprechen. Wir bemühen uns, jede mögliche Herausforderung zu treffen. * Medivac Everett Luftfahrt hat 10 Jahre, die Erfahrung, beim Durchführen medizinisch in Kenia und während der Region rettet. Die Flexibilität des Hubschraubers verleiht sich tadellos zu dieser übernahme. Wir können an der Szene eines Unfalles landen und Unfall direkt zum Krankenhaus transportieren und einen schnellen und leistungsfähigen Service so zur Verfügung stellen, der die Leben speichert. Wir arbeiten nah mit Amref Fliegen-Doktoren in Kenia und im internationalen Krankenhaus Kampala in Uganda. * V.I.P. Dienstleistungen Unser diskreter und professioneller Service ist ohne Gleichen, wie unsere Kunden. Warum deine wertvolle Zeit vergeuden? Für einen sicheren und sicheren Durchfahrttag oder -nacht unser Büro benennen, um einen Flug an deiner Bequemlichkeit zu ordnen zu jedem möglichem Bestimmungsort deiner Wahl. * Schmierfilmbildung Unsere Erfahrung in den Schmierfilmbildung Charters ist in der Region nicht angepaßt. Wir haben geholfen, zum Schirm solche Filme wie „der konstante Gärtner zu holen, „Grab-Räuber“ und „überlebender Afrika“ unter anderen. Unsere Flotte kann irgendeine Art Schmierfilmbildung Unternehmen, von den Hauptbewegung Abbildung Produktionen zu den Etatprojekten stützen. Unseren Personal einfach anrufen, um deine Anforderungen zu besprechen. * Suche und Rettung Suche und Rettung ist eine wichtige Rolle, für die Hubschrauber ideal entsprochen werden. Everett Luftfahrt `s Flugzeug werden mit Zustand - von - die - technische Ausrüstung der kunst wie Nachtanblickfähigkeit, FLIR (Vorwärtsc$schauen Infrarot) und Nachtsonne gepaßt. Alle unsere Piloten werden im Gebrauch dieser Ausrüstung erfahren, die groß die Wirksamkeit unserer SAR Betriebe erhöht. Zusätzlich erlaubt diese Ausrüstung uns, in den ungünstigen Bedingungen sicher und effektiv zu funktionieren, in denen andere Mittel ausfallen würden. * Externe Last * Touren, Safaris und szenische Flüge * Flug-Training Wir bieten PPL Training mit unserem Enstrom 280C an und haben einen „von Anfang an“ Syllabus für neue Piloten (55 Stunden) und einen beschleunigten „Zusatz“ Kurs für Halter der örtlich festgelegten Flügellizenzen (35 Stunden). Beide werden durch KCAA genehmigt. Everett Luftfahrt hat die einzige Hubschrauberpilottraining Schule in Ostafrika. * Hochzeiten Everett Luftfahrt hat eine lange Geschichte des Versehens der Paare mit großartigen Hochzeit Charters, die ihre Träume erfüllen. Jede Charter wird besonders zu jedem Klienten hergestellt und genau versieht sie mit dem Service, den sie wünschen. Jeder wird an den glücklichen ihr Leben zusammen anfangenden Paaren, chauffeured zu ihrem Bestimmungsort in ihrem eigenen privaten Hubschrauber überrascht. Welcher besserer Anfang zu einer glücklichen Verbindung? http://www.google.com/translate?u=http://www.everettaviation.com/charter.html&langpair=en|de

L'aviation d'Everett: Charte d'hélicoptère et Services de Charte

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:41:57 CDT

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http://www.everettaviation.com/charter.html&langpair=en|fr Charte d'hélicoptère > services de charte L'aviation d'Everett offre un éventail de services de charte avec nos hélicoptères. Si elle peut être faite sans risque, nous la ferons pour toi ! S'étendant des chartes régulières de passager, VIPs, charge externe à travers aux éléphants de bébé, s'il peut être déplacé dans un hélicoptère, nous pouvons le faire pour toi partout l'Afrique de l'Est. Nous opérons régulièrement au Kenya, en Tanzanie, en Ouganda, en Ethiopie, en Mozambique, au Malawi, et au Soudan. Nous opérons en Somalie sur demande, et sujet à l'évaluation du charger, et partout au reste de l'Afrique sur demande. Nous pouvons déployer de longues distances finies à brève échéance, pour la délivrance et les vols réguliers. Services de vol Les hélicoptères sont avion extrêmement flexible et utile. Les différentes possibilités de charte sont presque sans fin. Au-dessous de est une liste de nos services principaux, bien que nous trouvions constamment les nouveaux secteurs dans lesquels pour fonctionner. Si vous ne trouvez pas votre charte idéale dans la liste, appel juste pour discuter vos idées en détail avec notre personnel d'opérations. Nous essayerons de relever n'importe quel défi. * Medivac L'aviation d'Everett a dix ans où l'expérience de l'exécution médicale sauve au Kenya et dans toute la région. La flexibilité de l'hélicoptère se prête parfaitement à cette entreprise. Nous pouvons débarquer à la scène d'un accident et transporter des accidents directement à l'hôpital, de ce fait fournissant un service rapide et efficace qui sauve les vies. Nous travaillons étroitement avec des médecins de vol d'Amref au Kenya et l'hôpital international Kampala en Ouganda. * V.I.P. Services Notre service professionnel discret et est sans pair de même que nos clients. Pourquoi perdre votre temps valable ? Pour un jour ou une nuit sûr et bloqué de passage, appeler notre bureau pour arranger un vol à votre convenance à n'importe quelle destination de votre choix. * Pelliculage Notre expérience en chartes de pelliculage est inégalée dans la région. Nous avons aidé à apporter à l'écran des films tels que « le jardinier constant, « voleur de tombeau », et « survivant Afrique » entre d'autres. Notre flotte peut soutenir n'importe quel genre d'entreprise de pelliculage, des productions principales de film cinématographique aux projets de budget. Appeler simplement notre personnel pour discuter vos conditions. * Recherche et délivrance La recherche et la délivrance est un rôle important auquel des hélicoptères approprié idéalement. L'avion du `s d'aviation d'Everett sont équipés de l'équipement technique du dernier cri tel que des possibilités de vision de nuit, FLIR (regarder vers l'avant infrarouge) et soleil de nuit. Tous nos pilotes sont expérimentés dans l'utilisation de cet équipement qui augmente considérablement l'efficacité de nos opérations de SAR. En outre, cet équipement nous permet de fonctionner sans risque et efficacement en conditions défavorables où d'autres moyens échoueraient. * Charge externe * Excursions, safaris et vols scéniques * Formation de vol Nous offrons la formation de PPL en utilisant notre Enstrom 280C et avons « ab initio » un programme pour de nouveaux pilotes (55 heures) et un cours « ajouté » accéléré pour des supports des permis fixes d'aile (35 heures). Tous les deux sont approuvés par KCAA. L'aviation d'Everett a la seule école de formation de pilote d'hélicoptère en Afrique de l'Est. * Mariages L'aviation d'Everett a une longue histoire de fournir à des couples les chartes spectaculaires de mariage qui accomplissent leurs rêves. Chaque charte est particulièrement conçue en fonction chaque client, leur fournissant exactement le service qu'ils veulent. Chacun sera stupéfié aux couples heureux commençant leur vie ensemble, chauffeured à leur destination dans leur propre hélicoptère privé. Quel meilleur début à un mariage heureux ? http://www.google.com/translate?u=http://www.everettaviation.com/charter.html&langpair=en|fr

Everett Aviation and IMG in Uganda

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:39:45 CDT

Helicopters are extremely flexible and useful aircraft. The different charter possibilities are almost endless. Below is a list of our main services, although we are constantly finding new areas in which to operate. If you do not find your ideal charter in the list, just call to discuss your ideas in detail with our operations staff. We will endeavor to meet any challenge. * Medivac Everett Aviation has ten years experience in performing medical rescues in Kenya and throughout the region. The flexibility of the helicopter lends itself perfectly to this undertaking. We can land at the scene of an accident and transport casualties directly to hospital, thus providing a fast and efficient service that saves lives. We work closely with Amref Flying Doctors in Kenya and International Hospital Kampala in Uganda. http://www.img.co.ug/ Welcome to IMG Welcome to the International Medical Group (IMG), the leading provider of private medical services in Uganda. IMG includes a number of companies IHK (International Hospital) IAA (International Air Ambulance), Uganda Health Management Institute, International Hospital School of Nursing and International Medical Foundation. IAA is a health management organisation that provides affordable medical schemes that cater for individuals, families and companies. These medical schemes use IMG's own network of facilities, including a fully equipped hospital, countrywide clinics, and rescue and evacuation by road and air ambulance.

Everett Aviation and Amref Flying Doctors in Kenya

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:37:38 CDT

Helicopters are extremely flexible and useful aircraft. The different charter possibilities are almost endless. Below is a list of our main services, although we are constantly finding new areas in which to operate. If you do not find your ideal charter in the list, just call to discuss your ideas in detail with our operations staff. We will endeavor to meet any challenge. * Medivac Everett Aviation has ten years experience in performing medical rescues in Kenya and throughout the region. The flexibility of the helicopter lends itself perfectly to this undertaking. We can land at the scene of an accident and transport casualties directly to hospital, thus providing a fast and efficient service that saves lives. We work closely with Amref Flying Doctors in Kenya and International Hospital Kampala in Uganda. http://www.amref.org/ 50 years of experience in health development Founded in 1957, AMREF is the only international health development NGO that has its headquarters in Africa, and 97% of the staff are African. AMREF implements projects to learn, and shares that learning with others to advocate for changes in health policy and practice. AMREF aims to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to health.

Everertt Aviation - Flight Services

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:35:56 CDT

Flight Services Helicopters are extremely flexible and useful aircraft. The different charter possibilities are almost endless. Below is a list of our main services, although we are constantly finding new areas in which to operate. If you do not find your ideal charter in the list, just call to discuss your ideas in detail with our operations staff. We will endeavor to meet any challenge. * Medivac Everett Aviation has ten years experience in performing medical rescues in Kenya and throughout the region. The flexibility of the helicopter lends itself perfectly to this undertaking. We can land at the scene of an accident and transport casualties directly to hospital, thus providing a fast and efficient service that saves lives. We work closely with Amref Flying Doctors in Kenya and International Hospital Kampala in Uganda. * V.I.P. Services Our discreet and professional service is without peer as are our customers. Why waste your valuable time? For a safe and secure transit day or night, call our office to arrange a flight at your convenience to any destination of your choice. * Filming Our experience in filming charters is unmatched in the region. We have helped bring to the screen such movies as “The Constant Gardener, “Tomb Raider”, and “Survivor Africa” among others. Our fleet can support any kind of filming enterprise, from major motion picture productions to budget projects. Simply call our staff to discuss your requirements. * Search and Rescue Search and Rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited. Everett Aviation‘s aircraft are fitted with state of the art technical equipment such as Night Vision capability, FLIR (forward looking infra-red) and Night Sun. All our pilots are experienced in the use of this equipment which greatly increases the effectiveness of our SAR operations. In addition, this equipment allows us to operate safely and effectively in adverse conditions where other means would fail. * External Load * Tours , Safaris and Scenic Flights * Flight Training We offer PPL training using our Enstrom 280C and have both an “ab-initio” syllabus for new pilots (55 hours) and an accelerated “add-on” course for holders of fixed wing licenses (35 hours). Both are approved by KCAA. Everett Aviation has the only helicopter pilot training school in East Africa. * Weddings Everett Aviation has a long history of providing couples with spectacular wedding charters that fulfill their dreams. Each charter is specially tailored to each client, providing them with exactly the service they want. Everyone will be amazed at the happy couple beginning their life together, chauffeured to their destination in their own private helicopter. What better start to a happy marriage? http://www.everettaviation.com/charter.html

About Everett Aviation

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:34:32 CDT

About Everett Aviation * Everett Aviation started operations in 1996 with one AS350 leased from Eurocopter. * In 2001 introduced the first civilian twin engine, IFR capable helicopter to East Africa. * In 2003, introduced Night Vision capability to enhance Search & Rescue and Medivac operations. * In 2004, we were appointed as the official Eurocopter Maintenance Centre for East & Central Africa, and are the only such approved centre on the continent, outside South Africa. * In 2005, we expanded our operations and opened a base in Kampala, Uganda. * In 2006, in conjunction with Unity Resource Group we started medivac operations in South Sudan and Juba. Everett Aviation Hangar in Nairobi Regional Coverage Everett Aviation covers Eastern Africa from its two bases in Nairobi and Kampala. We operate regularly in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. We have operated in Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Somalia, Djibouti, Madagascar and several other countries as required by clients. We have extensive experience and expertise in ferrying helicopters long distances and are ready and able to deploy worldwide at short notice.

Highlight Travel Partners with BCD Travel

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:33:19 CDT

Highlight Travel Giant Partners With Local Firm The East African (Nairobi) NEWS September 19, 2006 Posted to the web September 19, 2006 By Peter Munaita, the Eastafrican Nairobi Highlight Travel has become the exclusive partner in Kenya for BCD Travel, the World's third largest travel management company. The global travel management sector has undergone consolidation since the beginning of the year and the signing up of Highlight Travel represents BCD Travel's search for a larger presence in Kenya. "Our expansion in Kenya means we are now better placed to deliver our travel solutions to national and multinational customers in every established and emerging market around the world," said Greg O'Neil, managing director and senior vice president of Partner Networks and Asia Pacific Region. Travel management companies help firms simplify and streamline the corporate travel process involving people, information and resources in a bid to improve efficiency and minimise costs. The partnership offers Kenyan companies a platform to track every trip, every traveller, and the costs incurred throughout every journey through the use of BCD Travel's presence and technology. Highlight Travel joined hands with the global SYNERGI network a year ago to develop a sound understanding of the principles of multinational corporate travel management and is ranked among the top ten business travel management firms in the country. Managing director S. G. Kaka said the partnership will benefit the company in terms of knowledge exchange, training, supplier leverage, networking and new business development. "We believe that our understanding of the local market together with BCD Travel's strong global reach and credibility will provide major benefits for our clients." BCD Travel is a subsidiary of BCD Holdings N.V, a Dutch company with interests in the travel and the financial services industries. The parent company operates in 96 countries with total sales, including franchising, of $13 billion. Copyright © 2006 The East African. All rights reserved.

Kenya's Team to UK Talks Over Sale of Safaricom

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:31:23 CDT

Kimunya Leads Kenya's Team to UK Talks Over Sale of Safaricom http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200609190870.html The East African (Nairobi) NEWS September 19, 2006 Posted to the web September 19, 2006 By A Staff Writer, the Eastafrican Nairobi Top Kenya Treasury officials are in London to negotiate a multi-million-dollar deal with UK mobile phone conglomerate, Vodafone plc. The UK company wants to acquire 9 per cent of local mobile company Safaricom Ltd, the largest operator in the market with one of the largest balance sheets in corporate Kenya - worth more than Ksh22 billion ($297.2 million) as at March this year. Representing Kenya in the negotiations will be Finance Minister Amos Kimunya, Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua and Investment Secretary Esther Koimett. The managing director of Telkom Kenya, Sammy Kirui and Safaricom's managing director Michael Joseph are also in the team. Currently, the government - through Telkom Kenya - owns 60 per cent of the company, with Vodafone owning the remaining 40 per cent stake. The government must raise Ksh27 billion ($375 million) to modernise the ailing Telkom Kenya and pay off more than 11,000 workers being sent home in what is going to be the largest retrenchment of workers by a public corporation in the country's history. But it neither has the money to finance the retrenchment nor the financial flexibility to borrow it from the market, hence the decision to dispose of the 9 per cent stake in Safaricom. One of the largest corporate organisations in Kenya, with a workforce of 18,000, Telkom is in deep distress with losses ranging from Ksh3 billion ($40.5 million) to Ksh5 billion ($67.5 million) per annum, according to a due diligence audit last year by audit firm PKF Consulting. Indeed, Telkom Kenya's only valuable asset at the moment is the 60 per cent in Safaricom. Initially, the government refused to sell to Vodafone, literally sitting on a jewel even as Telkom Kenya was tottering towards insolvency. All along, the government's argument was that no potential strategic investor will take an interest in Telkom if its Safaricom shares are excluded from its balance sheet. The change of mind was to come in March this year when President Mwai Kibaki announced that the government had decided to sell 9 per cent of its shares in Safaricom to the UK giant. How much is the government likely to raise from the deal ? So far, both parties have been playing their cards close to their chests, unwilling to give even the slightest indication of what the deal is likely to be worth. A valuation of the company conducted on the government's behalf by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) - the World Bank's private sector-lending affiliate - has remained a guarded secret, its contents and recommendations only known to a few top Treasury officials. But it is believed that during the London negotiations, the government will be basing its negotiating position on the basis on the work by the IFC. The IFC team, led by infrastructure specialist Javier Calvo, took up the assignment early this year and handed its report to the government several months ago. Although the UK giant will naturally be bargaining for a low price, Vodafone is not expected to go below what it quoted in April last year when it made an offer to purchase part of the company. In a letter by its chief executive for Americas, Africa and China, Gavin Derby, Vodafone had offered the government a cash payment of $100 million for an 11 per cent stake of the company. The offer by Vodafone implied an enterprise value of $1 billion for 100 per cent of the company. A great deal has happened in the company since then and chances are that the UK firm will accept a much higher offer than it made in April. Indeed, Safaricom has experienced phenomenal growth both in terms of turnover and profits since Vodafone made the $100 million offer for an 11 per cent stake in the company. In March this year, the company reported a profit of Ksh8.4 billion ($113.5 million) up from Ksh5.8 billion ($78.3 million) in 2005. Annual revenues increased to Ksh26 billion ($351.3 million) from Ksh18. 8 billion ($254 million) in 2004 and have been rising at a fast rate in response to phenomenal growth in subscriber numbers, now estimated to be over 3.8 million lines. The company has projected the number of its subscribers to hit the five million mark by the end of next year. The growth rate is unprecedented in the corporate sector, considering that six years ago - in March 2000 - revenues were at a mere Ksh1.6 billion ($21.6 million). Experts are predicting that the deal could be concluded at between Ksh10 billion ($135.1 million) and Ksh12 billion ($162.1 million), making it the biggest transaction in the history of privatisation in East Africa. Still, the worth of Safaricom Ltd remains an open ended question, with estimates changing depending on the valuation formula which one adopts and who is valuing the company. It must be remembered that the $1 billion enterprise value which Vodafone quoted in April last year was nothing more than a mere negotiating position floated to kick start proper haggling with the government. According to a valuation by PKF Consulting, which was appointed by the government, last year to advise on corporate restructuring of Telkom Kenya, the value of 60 per cent of Telkom's shares in Safaricom was in the region of $471 million and $790 million. The audit firm said it had based this valuation on an analysis of Safaricom's financial statements up to March 2004. But under other conventions, prices of telecommunications companies are valued on the basis of the number of lines and subscriptions a telephone company has. Under one such convention, one telephone line is valued at $400. With Safaricom's lines having increased to an estimated 3.8 million, 9 per cent of the company is likely to earn the government billions of shillings. Apart from price, another thing which Mr Kimunya's team will be negotiating with the UK giant is control of the company. Going by the April offer by Vodafone, it is clear that the UK giant is prepared to give a better offer to the government, depending on the amount of control which the government is prepared to cede. Had the UK company been allowed to purchase the 11 per cent share of Safaricom as it had asked in April, it would have assumed a 51 per cent controlling stake in the company. During this week's negotiations, the UK telephone giant will most likely to bring up the issue of control again. In April, Vodafone had informed the government that it would be willing to support a listing of Safaricom on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. This matter is expected to feature prominently in the negotiations because the UK company would appear to be keen on situation where - after the sale of the 9 per cent stake is completed - both itself and the government will follow by selling more shares on the Nairobi Stock Exchange under an arrangement that will allow it to remain as the anchor shareholder in the company. It is noteworthy that PKF Consulting had in its report of last year advised the government to sell only 9 per cent of the shares to Vodafone. The audit firm suggested that with Vodafone at 49 per cent, the government can then negotiate a shareholders agreement whereby both of them can each dispose 12.5 per cent each to the public, allowing the public to end up with 25 per cent shares of the company. Whichever way things go, whether the government succeeds in what it wants with Telkom and Safaricom will still depend on the goodwill and co-operation by the UK giant. Under an existing shareholders' agreement signed in 1999, the government cannot sell shares of Safaricom without the consent of the UK giant, which has pre-emptive rights over the shares. Copyright © 2006 The East African. http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200609190870.html

Road Race Action Shifts to Gucha And Kapsabet

Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:34:02 CDT

The Nation (Nairobi) September 8, 2006 News Article By Nation Correspondents Two members of Athletics Kenya's newly-picked team for the Standard Chartered Greatest Race on Earth marathon series will be star attractions at today's Sambaza Gucha 10km road race in Ogembo town. John Mutai and Edward Muge, both from the Kiptenden Athletics Club of Kericho District, will lead a star-studded team from the club at today's race. The women's race has also attracted Melbourne Commonwealth Games silver medallist Hellen Cherono, also from Kiptenden Athletics Club in Kericho. Tomorrow, Kapsabet will hold the inaugural Safaricom Rediscover Nandi Road Race. Race director Fred Kiptanui yesterday said over 1,000 athletes are expected in the race being run at the "granary" of Kenya's distance running. Kenya Seed Company and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) yesterday came on board as one of the sponsors of the Kapsabet race. "We expect to see the participation of elite athletes drawn from the two districts of Nandi North and South," Kiptanui said. Elite athletes Robert Cheruiyot and Augustine Choge are expected at the race meeting. Meanwhile, Kiptenden coach David Kosgey said he will send a team of 10 runners to the Gucha race which is part of the Safaricom Gusii Golden Series. Athletes from Kiptenden dominated the first race of the 10km series - the Bamba Kisii 10km race - in Kisii town on August 18. The final race in the series is the Kebirigo Road Race on October 6. More than 300 runners are expected for today's race which will start at Getumo, along the Kilgoris-Kisii road, and not Etono as earlier announced, Athletics Kenya's Nyanza South branch chairman, Peter Angwenyi, said on Wednesday. Announcing the changes, Angwenyi said that the race will end at the Tendere Secondary School playground in Ogembo. Angwenyi said runners from South and North Rift, Nairobi, Nyamira, Kisii and Gucha will be on parade today, with Kiptenden likely to sweep the awards once again. "I will send a depleted side because most of my runners have travelled abroad for various road races," Kosgey said in Kericho. http://www.propertykenya.com/news/023613-road-race-action-shifts-to-gucha-and-kapsabet

News: Kenya takes a large bite of the growing (via Everett Aviation)

Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:23:03 CDT

Kenya takes a large bite of the growing conference tourism pie http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143958023 THE STANDARD By Bob Wekesa Conference tourism reaches its peak next week when the Youth Entrepreneurship Summit and the Africities 4 Summit take place. In two weeks, Nairobi’s population will soar as more than 10,000 delegates to the two conferences converge in the city. Coming fast on the heels of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference in May and the media conference in August, these two conferences exemplify the ascendancy of this specialised form of tourism that is a mix of business and leisure. A relatively new concept in the tourism industry, conference tourism is a niche market sub sector that revolves around service provision to business travellers attending seminars, workshops, conferences and conventions. In the recent past, huge numbers of interest groups have been travelling to various destinations to attend global meetings. "Conference tourism is the largest and fastest growing segment in the modern tourism sector. It has a higher financial impact because business travellers spend more than leisure travellers. Often their expenses are paid for by the organisations they represent, leaving these tourists with substantial disposable incomes that they can be spend on the side," says Duncan Muriuki, the CEO of Maniago Safaris, a leading travel and tour firm that is involved in organising the Africities (African cities) Summit, one of the most significant conferences to come to Kenya this year. Worldwide, the tourism sub sector nets $672 billion annually, of which Africa’s share is 10 per cent. Africa accounts for two per cent of the global conference tourism market share. According to the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the sub sector regulator, it is also estimated that conference tourism will double by 2013, with a predicted growth rate of four per cent per annum in the coming years. According to ICCA figures, there were approximately 5,315 conferences of a large magnitude in 2005, with Europe accounting for 58 per cent of the market share. Though Asia followed Europe with a huge dividing margin at 18 per cent, it is worth pointing out that the continent recorded the fastest growing figures thanks to the rise in importance of the free port city of Dubai as a conference tourism destination, coupled with the rise in importance of Asian tiger cities. North America — US and Canada — has a share of 10.5 per cent while South America held on to seven per cent against Australia’s four per cent as Africa trailed with a paltry 2.5 per cent or 132 meetings. Recognising the importance of conference tourism, the apex organisers of the Africities Summit, the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA0, held a stakeholders meeting in August that discussed strategies through which African cities can reap from the meteoric rise in conference tourism. During the conference, held in Johannesburg, South Africa, Muriuki made a pro-African cities-conference-tourism presentation, which was proposed for inclusion in the African Union’s forward looking economic development initiatives. "Dubai is the classic case of focusing on conference tourism as an area of potentiality. Over a short period, international level conference facilities have come up in Dubai and coupled with a no-holds-barred marketing blitz, this has led to many world organisations opting for the United Arab Emirates city for high powered conferences", Muriuki says. He says that Mombasa city is ideal for holding large meetings because it already has sufficient bed capacity augmented by a warm climate and a variety of tourist attractions. "The missing link for Mombasa is that it lacks international level conference facilities that can cater for thousands of delegates," he says. Underscoring South Africa’s leadership of the conference tourism sector, he points out that Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg are the leading attractors of business meetings thanks to their superior conference facilities in addition to aggressive marketing. "One of the main planks in Nairobi’s stature as a conference tourism destination is the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, which has magnificently improved under the leadership of former NCBDA Chairman, Mr Philip Kisia," Muriuki points out while vouching for KICC to be taken on board during tourist promotion fairs abroad. Out of the 2.5 per cent of Africa’s share of the global conference tourism, South Africa had a clear lead according to last year’s figures that placed the country at 43.8 per cent or 56 meetings. Egypt is number two on the continent with 15 large meetings accounting for 11.7 per cent of the continent’s total. Morocco came third with 11 meetings that translate to 8.6 per cent while Kenya is ranked fourth with eight international scale meeting accounting for 6.3 per cent. "Kenya improved from position five in 2004 to number four in 2005 and has great potential for moving up the ladder if a strategic plan is mooted and implemented to specifically train focus on conference tourism," Muriuki says. He points out that conference tourism involves other sectors of the economy — stationery providers, translators, food and catering service providers, drivers and many more. Also benefiting from conferences are suppliers of equipment such as overhead projectors, photocopiers and various ICT services. "Indeed with a good strategy, attracting more business travellers to attend high profile meetings here in Nairobi or in Mombasa could have a multiplier effect in more than one way. For instance conference attendees could be enticed to sample our wide menu of tourist attractions after the conferences thus extending their expenditure of extra incomes," Muriuki says and points out that 40 per cent of his company’s business is inclined towards troubleshooting matters related to conference tourism. Because conference tourism hinges on the convergence of hundreds of people on one location, many Kenyans with a professional background in tourism or conference support services could get employment, explains Muriuki. His company has specialised in destination management, the main cog in the conference tourism wheel. Explaining the workings of destination management, Muriuki says the trend worldwide is for companies to serve as one-stop shops in handling hospitality matters for meetings where more than 1,000 delegates congregate. "One of the critical inputs of holding a conference of international stature is to ensure seamless air travel. This is then followed by ensuring that the multitudes of delegates have an enjoyable, even memorable stay during the conference period, which is essentially a tour operation," Ms Patricia Awori, who will be responsible for all operations, says. "For instance while on the travel agency end of things delegates arriving for the two conferences handle their ticketing under one roof, the tour operation end ensures that they are booked in hotels of their choice," says Muriuki, whose company cut its teeth in major conference tourism during the International Conference on Aids and STDs in Africa (Icasa) that was attended by 7,200 delegates in 2003. The Icasa conference is the biggest ever held in Kenya. Soon after the Africities Summit, Muriuki and his colleagues will be in the thick of organising the 10,000 delegates attending the UN-Habitat conference scheduled for Nairobi in November. The trend is that rather than various organisations handling disparate issues appertaining to the conference, one company is given the leeway to synchronise the entire conference. This includes foreseeing challenges in air travel arrangements, tracking down the movement of the delegates, ensuring a soft-landing reception for the delegates and being on hand to meet the needs of the delegates throughout their stay. The destination management company also undertakes exclusive ground handling, transportation logistics, negotiation of flights and accommodation, and overseeing dinners, safaris and excursions. For instance during the Africities Summit the organisers — including the Ministry of Local Government, the Association of Local Government Association of Kenya (ALGAK) and the Nairobi City Council — have sub let all hospitality issues to Muriuki’s company. There are no blame games should anything go amiss. "One of our first moves when we were awarded the contract to provide hospitality related services for the conference was to cut a deal with Kenya Airways for airfare discounts of up to 40 per cent on most routes," says Muriuki. Most of the 6,000-plus delegates to the Africities Summit have booked through Maniago Safaris. Due to access to flight schedules and manifests, as well as a reservations code, the conference tourists will relax in the knowledge that there are professionals working around the clock to ensure smooth arrivals and departures, a fact that could motivate them to come back to the country as private visitors. The delegates will be arriving from no less than 100 different cities from across the world. "We also negotiated subsidised hotel bookings from five-star to one-star hotels, institutions and guest houses," Awori says, adding that the five star hotels that charge over $300 per day per person have brought down their rates to less than $200 . She says that the delegates’ transport logistics to and from the venue on a daily basis are in their hands. The company will be rolling out 200 professionals, with a number of them being experts in Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German to cater for delegates who speak only these languages. At the end of the conference, the delegates will have a choice of visiting package tourist destinations at discounted rates thanks to the big numbers of delegates. A fleet of luxury coaches and vans hired out to provide transport to the delegates on arrival at the JKIA and from the hotels to KICC will also be available to delegates wishing to sample Kenya’s legendary fauna, flora and landscapes. "During the summit, every hotel will have a hospitality desk manned by a manager and support staff. They will advise the delegates on where to go for dinner, hotel departures for the venues, where to go for shopping or entertainment, and any other service," Awori says. Another aspect of liaison is with the security personnel to ensure the delegates’ safety. "Our security arrangements have been refined over time since the 1989 arrival of the Concorde Millionaires when we had to ensure all arrangements were meticulous for these high calibre tourists," Muriuki, who has 18 years experience in destination management, told The Sunday Standard as he leafed through a thick manual that has the A to Z of handling the conference. To be on top of things, there is a hospitality office where the coordination will be undertaken. http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143958023 THE STANDARD

News: World Bank hails Kenya’s success (via Everett Aviation)

Sat, 9 Sep 2006 17:20:39 CDT

KENYA TIMES World Bank hails Kenya’s success in tax reforms http://www.timesnews.co.ke/09sep06/business/buns2.html By MWANGI MUIRURI THE World Bank (WB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have praised the Kenyan government for introducing the electronic data interface system in the Customs department. Consequently, Kenya is ranked among Africa’s top nations striving to create an enabling atmosphere to do business. In a report, Doing Business 2007, the two global financial institutions terms the Kenya’s move that does away with manually administered paperwork as the right step towards efficiency and accountability. Also to win accolades was Kenya’s to shed off cumbersome and time-wasting bureaucratic networks vulnerable to corruption in the Imports transactions hence cutting the time of a transaction getting through to a maximum of seven days. And Kenya’s more appreciation was embedded in its efforts to phase out “unnecessary business permits for international investors.” So far, the report indicates, Kenya has successfully weeded out 26 licencing requirements and 92 others are under review, projecting to weed them out too. Upon overhaul, the government targets to retain a maximum of four permits. The step, the report says, are good strides towards joining other global economic performers in simplifying business regulations, strengthening property rights, easing tax burdens, increasing access to credit, and reducing the cost of exporting and importing. “Of good notice is to note that Kenya has replaced its paper-based customs administration with an electronic data interface system. Traders can electronically submit their customs declarations and pay for customs duties on-line. Importing sped up by seven days as a result. Kenya also eliminated 26 licensing requirements for businesses, with a proposed cut of 92 more,” the report reads in part. If Kenya harbours aspirations of joining the top ranks of investor confidence, it is recommended that it seriously targets reformed trade, tax, and property administration. Preferably, Kenya should introduce a single-window clearance process at customs where traders can now file all paperwork-for all agencies-at one place. Clearance time be dropped to three days for imports and exports. Ghana has successfully met these recommendations hence being the highest ranked economy in Africa on the scale of trade reforms. Ghana has also reduced the corporate tax-rate and reconstruction levy for businesses, cutting the overall tax burden. All in all, the report, released from Washington DC indicates that doing business became easier in Africa in the period 2005-2006. Good news for Africa’s struggling economies was that, for the first time, Africa made the top three among reforming regions. Kenya was ranked among the African economies that have contributed significantly in inducing reduction of time, cost, and hassle for businesses to comply with legal and administrative requirements. Of the 175 economies studied, the Democratic Republic of Congo is the last. Immediate measures that Kenya has to solidify are cutting fees associated with transferring property and revision of its company law to better protect small investors. Also, large-scale judicial reforms to improve court efficiency in handling trade and property disputes. In this, of importance is to reduce time taken to resolve simple commercial cases, preferably have most disputes settled during pre-trial conferences. KENYA TIMES World Bank hails Kenya’s success in tax reforms http://www.timesnews.co.ke/09sep06/business/buns2.html

Everett Aviation Helicopter Fleet

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:02:18 CDT

The Everett Fleet Everett Aviation has a wide range of helicopters for your needs. Eurocopter AS355-N This VIP helicopter is the only IFR certified helicopter, and one of only two twin engine machines in the region. It can be fitted with a 4 passenger VIP interior or the standard 5 passenger configuration. It has air conditioning and a stereo music system. It is fully equipped for IFR flight, with weather radar, Stormscope and a 3 axis coupled autopilot. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala this helicopter is used primarily for medivac, but also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. We operate the “LS” version of this helicopter which is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. This exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft is powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each. These larger engines allow for exceptional performance in the ‘hot and high’ environment in which we operate. It has a range without re-fuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knots. It seats four passengers in its V.I.P. role, and has an easily interchangeable interior which can be easily configured to the medical role depending on the nature of the emergency. It can accommodate two stretchers and two seated casualties/ medical staff or one stretcher and three seated casualties/ medical staff. Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) The workhorse of the fleet. Can carry up to 5 passengers. The aircraft has an external load rating of up to 1,000kgs and is well suited for all types of filming work. The B2 has a cruising speed of 110kts (200km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours. This helicopter is equipped with high skids and a sand filter, allowing it to operate well off the beaten track. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, rescue hoist, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) This small helicopter is primarily used for pilot training and has proved itself extremely versatile, particularly in support of the wildlife service where the aircraft has been utilized for game counts and darting operations. It is also available for charter. It can carry up to two passengers, but is better suited to one. The 280C has a cruising speed of 80kts (150km/h) and an endurance of 2 hours.

Everett Aviation Uganda

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:00:45 CDT

About Everett > Everett Uganda Welcome to Everett Aviation Uganda - The only private helicopter charter company operating in Uganda. At Everett Aviation we have a wealth of experience in helicopter operations to fulfill all your requirements. Our friendly and experienced staff are always available to tailor every charter to your needs, providing the professional V.I.P. service you expect. Everett Aviation (Uganda) started operations in Uganda in August 2005. We are based conveniently close to the city centre at The International Hospital Kampala in Namuwongo, where we have a purpose built hangar and operating area along with our operations office. We are sister company to Everett Aviation (Kenya), which has operated out of Nairobi for the past 16 years, giving us a long history of experience in the East African Region. Everett Aviation (Uganda) provides a variety of Charter Services. We offer a fully equipped Medical Rescue Service, covering the whole of Uganda and beyond. We also offer V.I.P charter services ranging from transporting security conscious celebrities and government officials quickly and directly to their destination, to making happy couples feel famous on their wedding day by helping them make the entrance of a lifetime. In addition, our helicopter provides a perfect platform for filming and survey work and has many applications in the industrial sector - from lifting external loads to helping telephone networks remain operational by quickly and efficiently transporting equipment and engineers to remote mast locations. The helicopter is truly a versatile machine with many more applications than are listed here. If you do not find the service you require here, please contact us to discuss your needs. We are always willing to expand our services. Uganda ‘Gifted By Nature’ is the slogan for Uganda and this is certainly true. Not only does Uganda boast the source of the Nile, but it also has an outstanding number of national parks, each one offering vastly different landscapes and ecosystems. Kampala itself is just north of the magnificent Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world and the source of the Nile which leaves the lake at Jinja only 20 minutes flying away. Nile River rapids near Jinja Murchison Falls National Park in the North of the country has a spectacular waterfall where the mighty Nile River compresses from a sluggish 23 metres wide expanse through a gorge of just 7 metres. The surrounding landscape is dominated by wetlands supporting a myriad of bird life. Spectacular aerial shots of the falls and countryside are easy to obtain and elephants and lions are often seen in this area. Queen Elizabeth National Park in the west of the country is framed by the spectacular backdrop of the Ruwenzori Mountains, a staggering 16,000 feet high. It contains an array of savannah wildlife with herds of Zebra grazing gently on the plain beneath the mountains. It is a perfect area for aerial safaris to fully appreciate the views. Perhaps the most famous of Uganda’s attractions is Bwindi National Park. Situated in the far south of the country it contains intact rainforest ecosystems and mountain gorillas, along with many other species of primate. A helicopter makes the long road trip unnecessary and you can now visit the area in a day rather than three and appreciate the true density of the forest canopy from above. Uganda is a wonderful country to visit, alongside the spectacular wildlife on offer. The people are very friendly and welcoming - it truly is the Pearl of Africa. http://www.img.co.ug/ Welcome to IMG Welcome to the International Medical Group (IMG), the leading provider of private medical services in Uganda. IMG includes a number of companies IHK (International Hospital) IAA (International Air Ambulance), Uganda Health Management Institute, International Hospital School of Nursing and International Medical Foundation. IAA is a health management organisation that provides affordable medical schemes that cater for individuals, families and companies. These medical schemes use IMG's own network of facilities, including a fully equipped hospital, countrywide clinics, and rescue and evacuation by road and air ambulance. http://www.img.co.ug/

News by Everett Aviation

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:58:50 CDT

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=57737 Training for Participants at African VSAT Event By Frances Ovia, 09.07.2006 http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=57737 In a bid to bring value in elecommunication and provide learning, networking and Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) opportunities, one of Nigeria's leading Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) firm, Jidaw Systems Ltd. will organise training, Hands-On VSAT field Engineering program for participants at African VSAT event. The company's Manging Director, Mr. Jide Awe told THISDAY that the practical VSAT course will hold on September 18 and 19, 2006 in Lagos, Nigeria and September 21 and 22, 2006 at Cotonou, Benin Republic. Participants will learn how to operate test equipment such as Inclinometer, Compass, GPS, Field strength meter etc. The course which measures up to global standards in the deployment of VSAT and topics practically as shown on http://ww.nigeriacomputers.com will include satellite fundamentals, VSAT Network Design, Link Budgets, VSAT Service, Site Survey, Site Commissioning and Field Engineering. Completing the course will allow participants do VSAT commissioning with satellite service providers like Panamsat, Intelsat, Astra and Eutelsat. According to Awe , "The training will be conducted by experts and experienced Satellite Communication Engineers with over 18 years experience in the global VSAT and wireless RF connectivity industry. The facilitator who is also a Global VSAT Forum (GVF) qualified instructor, has expertise in most satellite equipment including Radyne comstream, Paradise Datacom, Gilat-Skystar, HNS-GW series, ViaSat- Linstar and idirect". VSAT telecom training event attracts participants including investor, Engineer, installer or consultant from all over Africa including Liberia, Mozambique, Ghana and Eritea, Benin republic and all over Nigeria. Most Africa countries invest in VSAT services to meet the growing need for digital communications facilities in all sectors of the economy. The major challenge of the knowledge society in Africa according to the company, is that of access. 80% of Africa's international voice and data traffic is carried via satellite- VSAT internet. It is used by many Africa nations to address the challenge of bringing more people and organisations into the digital loop by providing effective ICT and and internet access. The terrestrial network infrastructure in the rural areas is grossly inadequate. Apart from improving access, other factors driving up the demand for VSAT deployment include technology and customer demand, banking and insurance consolidation, e-business and e-government initiatives and the rising demand for e-payment services. The African VSAT Event aims to create more opportunities and expertise in the African telecom sector. http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=57737

Senator Hopes To Raise Awareness

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:06:04 CDT

Obama To Be Tested For AIDS Publicly In Africa Senator Hopes To Raise Awareness About AIDS POSTED: 9:23 am CDT August 21, 2006 UPDATED: 7:14 pm CDT August 21, 2006 Email This Story | Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- U.S. Sen. Barack Obama hopes the combination of his fame and his family will make his tour of Africa more than just another visit by an American politician. Related Content: Images | Video With his face on magazine covers and people speculating about a run for higher office in 2008, Obama gets more media attention than almost any other politician. He jokes that he can't match Angelina Jolie, but he can still bring that spotlight to Africa for a little while and maybe catch the eye of Americans who would otherwise ignore the continent. At the same time, Obama hopes Africans will pay more attention to his message because his late father was Kenyan -- a goatherd who managed to study in America and return to his home country as an economist. South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of HIV and AIDS, with one in nine people infected, and activists said the right medications only reach a fraction of those. On Monday, Obama pledged to take an AIDS test in public to reduce some of the stigma behind the test. "When I go to Kenya, I will get an AIDS test in front of the cameras," he said. "Leading by example can be helpful and it's something I'd like to do." Obama visited African native and Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, who had high praise for Obama, saying his example will lead others to take HIV tests as well. "We are very impressed with you," Tutu said. Obama answered by saying he felt privileged to be there. Obama said he wants to stress that Africans ultimately must be responsible for helping themselves, from insisting on honest government to elevating the role of women to setting aside tribal conflicts. "Maybe they'll be willing to listen just a little bit more to some of my comments because of that connection," he said. The Illinois Democrat's 15-day trip will take him from South Africa to Kenya to Chad, with a few other stops along the way. Robert Bates of Harvard University said Obama's trip could be significant. "I think there are bridges to be built there, and he's the right man to do it," said Bates, a professor of government science and part of the university's Committee on African Studies. "It's a good productive place to be if your instincts are attuned to the possibilities of the future as opposed to what's been happening in the past, and I think Obama has that capacity." Bates said Africa is likely to be important to the world economic picture in decades to come. New oil deposits are being found there, it has tremendous natural resources and some of its countries have the technology and human resources to enter the world market. China, and India to a lesser degree, are investing in Africa and gaining more influence there, he said. Al-Qaida and other extremists have also taken root in some spots. "It's a very active place right now. There are reasons for us to be there and paying attention to what's going on there," Bates said. Senator Tours Mandela's Prison On Saturday, Obama, the only black member of the Senate, visited the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades by a racist South African government. He also plans to talk to AIDS victims and refugees driven from their homes by civil war. He will visit the site where the U.S. embassy was bombed in Nairobi, killing 248 people. The trip also includes more personal stops. Obama will visit Kogelo, the Kenyan village where his father grew up. His grandmother told Nairobi's The Nation newspaper that she is eager to see Obama but will be treating him more like a relative than a visiting dignitary. "I don't see why the heavens should come down just because Barack is coming to Kenya and Kogelo," Mama Sarah Obama said. "Our culture demands that when a grandson goes visiting his granny, he should eat a lot of eggs and that is what we will prepare for him." The senator also plans to visit a group of Kenyan women age 50 and older who have adopted children suffering from AIDS and are making a success of it with the help of a "microcredit" program supported by his personal funds from a children's book deal. It lets the women obtain small loans so they can buy such items as sewing machines or bicycles to start small businesses. "The key for me on this trip is to try to make sure the focus is on the people we meet, the stories we hear, the policies that are being put forward and not just that this is an episode of 'Biography,"' Obama said. Obama said he wants to talk about solutions instead of simply fretting about problems. He wants to know which AIDS programs work and which don't and to hear where American money is being spent well. "A lot of times, our aid policy and our foreign policy has been driven by charity as opposed to a sense of full partnership. We've been willing to send food when people are starving, but we haven't necessarily been willing to engage in trade that would give people more economic opportunity," he said. But he also wants the trip to be about more than where to send money and how America can help. Obama said African nations must rise above their tribal division, must elevate the role of women and improve their education. They must also fight corruption and increase service to their citizens. He promised to talk about America's "rule of law and transparency and checks and balances that I think are important to development and are missing, or at least underdeveloped, in parts of Africa." This is Obama's third trip to Africa. He went first after college, visiting his father's grave and hoping to connect with relatives he had never met. He returned, accompanied by his future wife, as a graduate of Harvard Law School about to start his career as a civil rights attorney. Copyright 2006 by NBC5.com The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Barack Obama expects to disappoint in Kenya

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:03:43 CDT

Sen. expects to disappoint in Kenya August 23, 2006 BY LYNN SWEET SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST PRETORIA, South Africa -- In this country, Sen. Barack Obama is having trouble getting a meeting with the president. When he gets to Kenya in a few days, his deceased father's homeland, Obama will be treated practically as if he were a head of state. "Now, I just have to remind everyone that I'm not a Kenyan politician,'' Obama said Tuesday. The Illinois Democrat sought to lower soaring expectations -- from extended family members to politicians from the Luo tribe of his father -- to people who live in his family's impoverished province in western Kenya. "No matter what happens there is always going to be some level of disappointment," said Obama in response to a question from the U.S. press corps traveling with him. He last traveled to the Nyanza province 14 years ago -- already a success by any measure in the village since he already had a Harvard law degree. Now it's much, much more. "I'm going there as a United States senator, but just personally this gives me an opportunity actually to reconnect and find out what is going on and what folks need. "My anticipation is I will be in a position to help in the future in terms of projects and ideas that they want to pursue.'' Obama donated $14,000 to a project in the Nyanza province to care for HIV/AIDS orphans, and a stop there is on his schedule. He realizes that members of his extended family may feel entitled to share in his fortune -- a book he wrote centering on his travel to Kenya to connect with his roots has made Obama a multimillionaire. "There are a couple of family members that I am very close to. There are all sorts of extended cousins and uncles that I don't know very well who I am sure would like some sort of assistance. It is not something that I would be able to provide. "So in that sense I would not be surprised if there are some disappointments there.'' The Kenyan press has been writing advance stories on Obama's trip for weeks. He has a visit with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki locked in. In Pretoria on Tuesday, Obama held a series of private events and speculated later in the day that any hope for a meeting with South African President Thabo Mbeki was dashed by critical comments he made on Monday about how the administration was handling the HIV/AIDS crisis. He also canceled a Congo side trip, with violence there escalating as the country heads toward a presidential runoff election. With a Kenyan presidential election coming up in 2007, Obama's visit comes in the context of ripening Kenyan campaigns. Politicians from his Luo tribe may try to use Obama to leverage their own campaigns in a country where politics are dominated by ethnic or tribal voting blocs. "What's important is that as much as possible, my presence is not hijacked by politicians there as a means of promoting their own campaigns or agendas. Particularly with the Luo tribe, potentially,'' Obama said. The Obama family in Kenya formed a committee to coordinate the return of their U.S. kin and even signed on a lawyer to help.

Everett Aviation SAR: Search and Rescue

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:00:18 CDT

Everett Aviation SAR: Search and Rescue Search and Rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited and for which Everett Aviation has developed an unlimited capability. Our aircraft are fitted with state of the art technical equipment such as Night Vision capability, FLIR (forward looking infra-red) and Night Sun. All our pilots are experienced in the use of this equipment which greatly increases the effectiveness of our SAR operations. In addition, this equipment allows us to operate safely and effectively in adverse conditions where other means would fail. Everett Aviation has developed an unrivalled capability for Search and Rescue. Over the years we have invested in as much specialised equipment as possible to enable us offer the best service. Kampala is situated near the shores of the second largest lake in the world and we undertake a variety of SAR tasks. Whether a boat has simply run out of fuel on the lake and needs us to find them and deliver extra fuel, or a more serious disaster requires rescue of people from the water with our winch, we have the capability to undertake tasks in the full range of situations. With the many mountainous regions in East Africa, helping to facilitate mountain rescue teams is one of our roles. We have made frequent rescues on Mt. Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro at heights of up to 18,000 feet. The versatility and low flying ability of a helicopter is perfectly suited to such roles. We now have: * SX16 Nightsun * Leo 400 FLIR * ANVIS 9 NVG * Rescue Hoist Over the past 10 years we have searched for, and found missing aircraft, boats, cars and people, retrieved lost climbers and off road motorcyclists.We are able to deploy a rapid response command centre, fully equipped to co-ordinate lengthy searches. We are available 24 hours a day to the Government, Civil Aviation Authority, Airlines, Embassies, NGO’s. Our emergency numbers are: KENYA +254 20 601638 +254 722 201010/1/2 operations@ everettaviation.com We can be contacted through flying doctors on telephones: 600090, 600868, 315454/5 0722-314239 0733-639088 Email: emergency@ flydoc.org UGANDA +256 41 511010 +256 712 511010 uganda@ everettaviation.com Or through International Hospital SUDAN Satellite Phone: (+882165) 4207094 Skype ID: opsroomsudan Email: opsroomsudan@ unityresourcesgroup.com

Everett Aviation Helicopter Charter - Rates & Pricing

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:57:35 CDT

Everett Aviation Helicopter Charter - Rates & Pricing Charter Rates - Current as of June 2006 Aircraft Hourly Rate (Euro) Hourly Rate (USD) Enstrom 280C € 340/ hour US$ 435/hour Eurocopter AS350-B2 €1,100 / hour US$ 1,408/hour Eurocopter AS355-N – Daytime €1,700 / hour US$ 2,200/hour Eurocopter AS355-N By night €1,900 / hour US$ 2,450/hour Eurocopter BO105-LS €1,850 / hour US$ 2,200/hour These rates are subject to V.A.T. where applicable (not applicable for tourist flights and flights outside Kenya). Charters for a full day normally carry a three hour minimum. Passenger departure tax and landing fees are payable from government airports. Contract and daily rates are available for longer charters. Please contact us for details. http://www.everettaviation.com/contacts.html

Satellite may carry African traffic despite new cable

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:51:42 CDT

News Brought to You by Everett Aviation http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/35f731f3-bb1a-4e4c-b40b-40095978c11f.html Satellite may carry African traffic despite new cable By: Computing SA staff Computing South Africa (23 Aug 2006) With the proposed East Africa Submarine cable system (EASSy) fiber cable coming on stream in 2008, and the steady roll-out of national backbone and cross-border links, it might be expected that the proportion of African traffic carried by fiber would increase very quickly. This appears unlikely to happen within the next three to five years, according to a recent report from consultancy company, Balancing Act. Currently around 80 percent of all of Africa’s voice and data traffic is carried by satellite, but this figure is likely to fall as the continent increases fiber links at all levels. The balance of traffic is almost all carried by the continent’s only current international fiber link, SAT3. Based on use of its international traffic database, the report estimates that on the basis of the progress of current plans and with favorable pricing adjustments on the SAT3 fiber, just over 30 percent of the total market in three years time will be carried by fiber, according to the African Satellite Markets report. Why is this transition likely to be so slow given that fiber is cheaper than satellite for high-volume traffic? There are a number of factors: -- The slow speed of competitive national backbone roll-out: It has taken Nigeria five years to get to a point where Nitel is supplying sufficient national backbone connections to SAT3 that there is now a rising flow of traffic on to the SAT3 cable. By contrast, Telkom completed this work prior to the cable opening, and now carries the majority of its traffic over the fiber link. -- The lack of inter-country links: Although both SAT3 and the proposed EASSy cable connect coastal cities there are relatively few cross-border links in place. Kenya has two sets of links being built to Nairobi by KDN and Telkom Kenya and a link is being built from Kenya to Rwanda. But other parts of the 'land-side' infrastructure are at a much earlier stage. For example, Zamtel has just announced its intention to build its connection to EASSy. And in one case – Zimbabwe – the transition has gone backwards: Telkom SA financed a fiber link to the country, but TelOne failed to meet the payments, so is now sending its traffic via satellite. -- The impact of high SAT3 prices on landlocked and 'no landing station' countries: SAT3 consortium member, Namibia Telecom, is a 'no landing station country', and sends 60 percent of its voice traffic via satellite, most of the balance being calls to SA. Why? Because the costs of transiting via SA make it more expensive than sending via satellite. Based on a pricing survey, the report looks in detail at these market distortions that have arisen from the position held by the monopoly market supplier. -- The lowering of prices on the proposed EASSy cable: Although final prices have not yet been announced, it is believed that they will fall in the US$500-$1,000 range (the lower price probably being available after a five year period). This will give users in the largest sub-Saharan African market, SA, a much cheaper alternative, and will drive down what Telkom SA can charge. Over three to five years, this will have the effect of unlocking some of the market distortion problems identified in the previous point in the southern African region. However, it will leave similar problems in West Africa largely unaffected. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a fourfold increase in the level of international Internet bandwidth supplied by satellite over the last four years, from 500Mbps in 2002 to 1,86Gbps in 2006. There are now 71 satellites with full or partial coverage of Africa, and seven more are planned. http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/35f731f3-bb1a-4e4c-b40b-40095978c11f.html

About Everett Aviation - ISO9001 Certification

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:59:13 CDT

About Everett Aviation - ISO9001 Certification ISO9001:2000 Safety and Quality November 2005 marked the successful completion of nine months of intensive work on our quality systems that resulted in accreditation by Bureau Veritas of our company to the ISO9001:2000 standard. The process of quality and the resulting improvements in all our services and safety levels is an achievement of which the whole company is extremely proud. We are the only aviation company in the region so certified, and as a result, our customers can be assured of the highest standards of safety both in our flight operations and engineering activities. Safety is the primary focus of this company, and we hold our selves to the highest standards in all aspects of our operation. Our pilots are trained to the best levels and must demonstrate their competency at regular intervals. Our engineers are all factory trained and equipped with all the tools, manuals and documentation to ensure they can maintain your helicopter to the highest standard. Every member of the company has attended and passed the ISO 9001:2000 training course.

Everett Aviation - External Load, Flight Services

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:58:28 CDT

Everett Aviation - Flight Services External Load Our helicopters can lift/carry external loads of between 900kgs and 1,100kgs and our pilots can position these loads with precision. For example, positioning the heavy motors for lift installations into tall buildings becomes a simple task, especially in a confined area where getting a crane close enough is difficult. Whatever the load, we will be happy to discuss options to efficiently complete the task to your satisfaction. Please call our Chief Pilot for further information. We have positioned a 5 tonne drilling rig onto an island in the White Nile near Jinja by dismantling it using the helicopter as a crane, lifting it in smaller parts and re-assembling it with the helicopter on the island. We have done a similar task on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. We make regular lifts for Uganda Telecom in Uganda to remote sites. In 1999, we recovered a disabled AS350 helicopter from the sea off the Kenya coast near Lamu.

Airborne Geophysical Surveys

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:57:20 CDT

http://www.geotechairborne.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=171 Geotech Ltd. provides expert data processing at field locations and at the head-office. At the field level, quality control procedures are designed to ensure that all data collected meets or exceeds contract specifications. Data compilation is done progressively during each survey, with preliminary maps being produced immediately after the flying is complete. Final data processing is done at the Geotech office in Aurora. Geotech uses the latest data processing tools and techniques to provide a wide range of final geophysical survey products such as maps, resistivity-depth sections and data profiles. Below are some examples of the maps. Full-size sample maps in PDF format can be downloaded by clicking on the images below. http://www.aeroquestsurveys.com/english/index.php Aeroquest is also developing applications for its proprietary time domain electromagnetic systems in the environmental services and ground water exploration industries. Aeroquest currently offers the proprietary AeroTEM time-domain system in diameters ranging from 5 metres to 12 metres, the innovative Impulse frequency-domain HEM system, and Tri-directional magnetic gradiometers. Each of these systems can be flown with a radiometrics unit supplied by Aeroquest. http://www.aeroquestsurveys.com/english/aerotem.php Aeroquest Intl. Limited 845 Main Street East, Unit 4 Milton, Ontario CANADA - L9T 3Z3 Phone: +1 (905) 876-2574 Fax: +1 (905) 876-4557 sales@aeroquestsurveys.com http://www.aeroquestsurveys.com/english/aerotem.php

Nairobi to Host Media Conference 22 August

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:42:35 CDT

Nairobi to Host Media Conference The East African Standard (Nairobi) NEWS August 8, 2006 By Eliud Miring'uh Nairobi Journalists from Africa and Europe meet in Nairobi on Tuesday to explore the possibility of building networks that can lead to shared opportunities and better understanding of issues. The two-day conference brings together journalists from 25 countries to discuss challenges facing Africa's news media while promoting transparency in governance, and conflict prevention and resolution. Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun, a special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, will open the conference to be held at a Nairobi hotel. The forum will enable journalists to build networks and strengthen their work, according to a brief prepared by the organisers, who include the United Nations affiliated University for Peace, the Nation Media Group and the European Parliamentarians for Africa. "There are important new initiatives in support of Africa's news media (and) this conference will examine how best these opportunities can be utilised," states the brief. The organisers want African journalists to have strong networks that go beyond political boundaries and linguistic barriers. Proposals floated include exchange programmes between journalists in Europe, Asia, and Africa as well as media groups in Africa. Copyright © 2006 The East African Standard. URL to story: http://allafrica.com/stories/200608080678.html

Africa News, Rwanda: Entrepreneur has quixotic goal of wiring Rwanda

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:37:12 CDT

Africa News, Sponsored by Everett Aviation Entrepreneur has quixotic goal of wiring Rwanda Thursday, August 17, 2006 By Christopher Rhoads, The Wall Street Journal MOUNT KARISIMBI, Rwanda -- Greg Wyler, an American tech entrepreneur, dreams of bringing the Internet to this troubled country. There are a few hurdles. One is a battered communications tower atop this 14,787-foot volcanic peak. The air is too thin for helicopters to transport the several tons of equipment needed for repairs. Instead, it has to go by hand. One recent morning, as mist covered the mountain, a group of 20 Rwandans lugged a 1,300-pound transformer with ropes and pulleys through deep mud. Rains had turned part of the trail into swamp. Mr. Wyler, 36 years old, was checking on their progress. He had recently hired a South African mountain-rescue company to advise on navigating the steeper sections. "We are pushing the boundaries of technology here," Mr. Wyler said, as the muck oozed up around his knees. Mr. Wyler's company, Terracom, expects the tower to start beaming services in the coming months, including, for the first time, cellphone coverage, Internet access and television. Rwanda is among the least-connected countries in the world. Mr. Wyler wants it to be the first completely wired African nation, with citizens paying $80 a month for Terracom's Internet service. Right now, Rwandans earn on average an annual income of about $200. Outside Rwanda's major towns, few homes have power. Rwanda still bears the scars of the genocide that consumed this nation 12 years ago when ruling Hutus slaughtered more than 800,000 Tutsis in a 100-day period. The country's telecom minister, Albert Butare, supports Mr. Wyler's efforts but acknowledges the obvious. "We've had to rebuild everything from nothing," Mr. Butare says. "So when people need shelter, water and energy, they ask, 'Do I really need a computer?'" On a recent break-neck tour by Land Cruiser of Terracom's projects around the country, Mr. Wyler stopped at his northwest regional office where clothes salesman Edward Rugamba had come to get his phone line fixed. The 33-year-old Mr. Rugamba mentioned he'd once tried to start an Internet cafe. It folded after customers complained about the poor connections. On a whim, Mr. Wyler took Mr. Rugamba to see one of Terracom's new solar-powered towers, a journey that took an hour up a twisting, narrow dirt road. He wanted to persuade Mr. Rugamba to re-launch his cafe. "There are some damn good Java programmers out there!" Mr. Wyler shouted over the thick forest below. On the ride back down the mountain, Mr. Wyler pitched his visitor the job of running regional sales for Terracom. The car zipped past barefoot children playing among goats. "I need you on my team to show these guys how to use the Internet," he said. "We'll make this a booming metropolis!" Mr. Wyler put Mr. Rugamba in touch with Terracom's sales team, but hasn't learned if he accepted the offer. Until three years ago, Mr. Wyler had never been to Africa. In the early part of the decade, he was investing in tech startups and real estate after making a fortune from a technology that cools computers. In 1998, the 28-year-old Mr. Wyler sold his company, Silent Systems Inc., for about $15 million. Then a family tragedy intervened. In 2002, Mr. Wyler's parents were in the midst of an ugly divorce, rife with accusations of physical abuse, according to reports in the Boston Herald and Boston Globe. In October of that year, Mr. Wyler's mother, Susann, was murdered in the family's home near Boston. Widespread media coverage at the time identified Mr. Wyler's father, Geoffrey Wyler Sr., a prominent Boston lawyer, as a suspect. Local law authorities won't comment and to this day no one has been charged with the crime. Geoffrey Wyler did not respond to calls seeking comment. Around this time, at the wedding of a friend, Mr. Wyler met a Rwandan government official who invited him to visit the country. Eager for a new venture to occupy his time and mind, Mr. Wyler readily accepted and visited Rwanda that spring. The government official was the chief-of-staff for President Paul Kagame, whom Mr. Wyler soon met. Mr. Kagame quizzed Mr. Wyler about a $50-million government project to give schools Internet access via satellite. Mr. Wyler says he told the president the deal was overpriced and that satellite Internet access was slow and unreliable. "I told him if he wanted real infrastructure, he needed fiber," recalls Mr. Wyler. Mr. Wyler drew Mr. Kagame a map showing how fiber cables connect much of the developed world and bypass Africa. The government scrapped the satellite deal. Mr. Kagame and other government officials urged Mr. Wyler to take on a project wiring 300 schools, which he accepted. Rwanda has tried to forge connections to the global economy under the leadership Mr. Kagame, the Tutsi military leader who led the army that defeated the genocidal Hutu government. His ultimate goal is to transform Rwanda into a Singapore-like hub for business and investment in east Africa. He has lured back from abroad several million Rwandans -- many with Western skills and education -- to help the country catch up with the modern world. Yet government-owned phone monopolies throughout Africa have stifled competition, keeping innovation limited and prices high. Western companies and carriers have mostly shunned Africa, with its poverty, disease and instability. Recently, both France Telecom and Vivendi SA have scaled back their ambitions in the area. Rwanda got its first dial-up connection in 1999 and, like most of the region, relied on expensive satellite links to access the Internet. When Mr. Wyler first visited, Rwanda counted just 22 broadband connections, each costing more than $1,000 a month, which were used mostly by embassies and nongovernmental organizations. Even at those prices, the connections were faulty and slow. Mr. Wyler glimpsed an opportunity. Most of the recent growth in Internet users has come from developing nations. The world-wide number has more than doubled in the past five years to one billion. In December 2003, Mr. Wyler started his own Rwandan Internet service provider and named it Terracom. With about $15 million, which came from his own funds and another investor, he began building a fiber network using the same technology that forms the U.S.'s Internet and data backbone. Mr. Wyler says he is focusing on access first, profits later. He's starting with schools, institutions, and small businesses such as coffee cooperatives hoping to sell to U.S. coffee houses. Eventually, he'll get to individual consumers. During 2004, Mr. Wyler hired 45 full-time workers and about 1,000 part-time laborers. They laid a 100-mile stretch of fiber in the ground from the capital Kigali southwest to Butare, the second-largest city and home of the country's biggest university. "We're on a mission here to see what happens when we drive prices down and quality up," says Mr. Wyler. Last October, Mr. Wyler solved the problem of what to do with the country's telecom monopoly: He bought it. With a $20-million bid, Mr. Wyler won an auction that privatized Rwandatel. The acquisition included an antiquated fixed-line phone network, about 25,000 customers and 530 employees. Mr. Wyler was now running a bloated government monopoly with little technical knowledge and no idea how to compete. Rwandatel had no customer-service department and 12 employees whose sole job was to play on the company soccer team. "It wasn't expected to turn out this way," says Mr. Wyler, who on some days relies on a steady consumption of Gummi bears that he brings with him from the U.S. "It just sort of happened." Mr. Wyler spends one week of every six in Rwanda and most of the remainder at the home near Boston he shares with his wife and young daughter. Back in the Land Cruiser, Mr. Wyler checked emails on his laptop. Terracom offers wireless broadband access wherever its cellular network has coverage -- he says it currently covers about 60 percent of the population -- for $60 a month, $20 less than the company's regular Internet access offering. The wireless technology is similar to what Verizon Inc. and Sprint Corp. are rolling out in the U.S. As Mr. Wyler answered email, the SUV careened around mountain roads lined with banana trees, and narrowly swerved past people on foot. One email came from Terracom's new head of DSL, a technology that turns basic phone lines into high-speed ones. "There is something that I would like to tell you," wrote Christian Mulola, 25, a Rwandatel employee Mr. Wyler promoted to run DSL operations. "It is that I do not feel confident enough to handle the installation all alone." Mr. Wyler ignored the email, having given his employee a pep talk months earlier. "Greg told me my work would seem like a mountain on the first day," Mr. Mulola recalls. "But that tomorrow it would seem like a hill, and then seem smaller and smaller after that." Mr. Wyler later received another message announcing that the job had been completed after all. Next, Mr. Wyler visited Terracom's Internet cafe in Gisenyi, a dusty city in western Rwanda on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The cafe has 12 computers in wooden stalls but its Internet connection was down. The cafe is the main and perhaps only way for tens of thousands of residents here to access the Internet. Emile Munyandamusta, the Gisenyi manager, had not addressed the problem for about a day. Mr. Wyler was furious. "Did you know about this?" he shouted. He explained through a translator that each minute the Internet cafe was closed Terracom was losing money. Startled, Mr. Munyandamusta made a call on his cellphone to check on the repair work. Mr. Wyler became further exasperated when he noticed Mr. Munyandamusta using a cellphone from a Terracom competitor, South Africa's MTN Group Ltd. Mr. Wyler demanded the employee running the cafe email him the moment the problem was fixed, which happened the following day. On his way out the door, Mr. Wyler noticed the employee was wearing an MTN T-shirt. "We've got to get him a new shirt," Mr. Wyler said to his translator. Terracom now has about 220 miles of fiber in the ground, bringing broadband to more than 150 locations, Mr. Wyler says. He wants to install another 700 miles of fiber during the next two years. The price of Internet access is still well beyond the reach of most Rwandans, but is a fraction of earlier offerings and for much higher speeds. In Terracom's Internet cafes, users pay 20 cents per 15 minutes. Terracom's cellphone service, meanwhile, costs about a third of the rate offered by MTN. Mr. Wyler reckons he can reach more than a million customers within the next five years, offsetting the low margins with volume. By comparison, it took MTN eight years to win about 220,000 Rwandan customers. In late July, Terracom, which Mr. Wyler says is now a "sustainable" business, merged with GV Telecom, a regional telecom company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. The new company plans to extend Terracom's model of low-cost high tech throughout Nigeria, Kenya and Congo, Mr. Wyler says. Initially, Mr. Butare, the Rwandan telecom minister, denounced the deal in a news conference, stating that his office had not been consulted. He calmed down after Mr. Wyler called to explain he was not simply flipping the company for a quick profit. Mr. Wyler says he has no intention of stepping down and will run strategy for the new company as well as its Rwandan operations. One of Terracom's biggest tasks was making operational the Mount Karisimbi communications tower. The lush, mountainous area, where gorillas roam, has seen little but warfare since the 130-foot tower was built in 1989, initially to provide FM radio. When the country plunged into civil war in 1990, Mr. Kagame's invading Tutsi army hunkered down here. The tower had never worked when the systematic killing of Tutsis by Hutus began four years later. The work crew left. When defeated Hutu militants fled across the border into Congo, they destroyed much of the equipment around the tower. The tower, which sits in the northwest of the country, sat unused, surrounded by chunks of charred metal, covered in graffiti and the debris of war. The area remained in a communications blackout. Nearby airports couldn't even talk to pilots flying through the region. About a year ago, the government asked Terracom to bring the tower to life. The company imported tons of telecom equipment from overseas and shipped it four hours by truck from Kigali to a grass airstrip near the mountain where mud huts dot the landscape. From there, a military helicopter made more than 50 trips hauling equipment to a base camp at about 12,000 feet. Then, it was taken by hand to the top. One piece -- the 1,300 pound transformer -- took a week to haul to the summit. To speed up the work, Mr. Wyler suggested having workers sleep and eat at the camp. For their down-time during the evenings, he suggested providing laptops. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06229/714284-96.stm

Everett Aviation Helicopter Fleet

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:02:33 CDT

The Everett Fleet Everett Aviation has a wide range of helicopters for your needs. Eurocopter AS355-N This VIP helicopter is the only IFR certified helicopter, and one of only two twin engine machines in the region. It can be fitted with a 4 passenger VIP interior or the standard 5 passenger configuration. It has air conditioning and a stereo music system. It is fully equipped for IFR flight, with weather radar, Stormscope and a 3 axis coupled autopilot. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala (add link) this helicopter is used primarily for medivac, but also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. We operate the “LS” version of this helicopter which is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. This exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft is powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each. These larger engines allow for exceptional performance in the ‘hot and high’ environment in which we operate It has a range without re-fuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knots. It seats four passengers in its V.I.P. role, and has an easily interchangeable interior which can be easily configured to the medical role depending on the nature of the emergency. It can accommodate two stretchers and two seated casualties/ medical staff or one stretcher and three seated casualties/ medical staff. Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) The workhorse of the fleet. Can carry up to 5 passengers. The aircraft has an external load rating of up to 1,000kgs and is well suited for all types of filming work. The B2 has a cruising speed of 110kts (200km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours. This helicopter is equipped with high skids and a sand filter, allowing it to operate well off the beaten track. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, rescue hoist, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) This small helicopter is primarily used for pilot training and has proved itself extremely versatile, particularly in support of the wildlife service where the aircraft has been utilized for game counts and darting operations. It is also available for charter. It can carry up to two passengers, but is better suited to one. The 280C has a cruising speed of 80kts (150km/h) and an endurance of 2 hours.

Everett Aviation Helicopter Charter Rates & Pricing

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:01:45 CDT

Everett Aviation Helicopter Charter > Rates & Pricing Everett Aviation Charter Rates - Current as of June 2006 Aircraft Hourly Rate (Euro) Hourly Rate (USD) Enstrom 280C € 340/ hour US$ 435/hour Eurocopter AS350-B2 €1,100 / hour US$ 1,408/hour Eurocopter AS355-N – Daytime €1,700 / hour US$ 2,200/hour Eurocopter AS355-N By night €1,900 / hour US$ 2,450/hour Eurocopter BO105-LS €1,850 / hour US$ 2,200/hour These rates are subject to V.A.T. where applicable (not applicable for tourist flights and flights outside Kenya). Everett Aviation Charters for a full day normally carry a three hour minimum Passenger departure tax and landing fees are payable from government airports. Everett Aviation Contract and daily rates are available for longer charters. Please contact us for details at Everett Aviation. http://www.everettaviation.com/contacts.html

About Everett Aviation

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:59:52 CDT

About Everett Company History * Everett Aviation started operations in 1996 with one AS350 leased from Eurocopter. * In 2001 introduced the first civilian twin engine, IFR capable helicopter to East Africa. * In 2003, introduced Night Vision capability to enhance Search & Rescue and Medevac operations. * In 2004, we were appointed as the official Eurocopter Maintenance Centre for East & Central Africa, and are the only such approved centre on the continent, outside South Africa. * In 2005, we expanded our operations and opened a base in Kampala, Uganda. * In 2006, in conjunction with Unity Resource Group we started medivac operations in South Sudan and Juba. Everett Aviation Hangar in Nairobi Regional Coverage Everett Aviation covers Eastern Africa from its two bases in Nairobi and Kampala. We operate regularly in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. We have operated in Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Somalia, Djibouti, Madagascar and several other countries as required by clients. We have extensive experience and expertise in ferrying helicopters long distances and are ready and able to deploy worldwide at short notice.

NEW YORK TIMES: Into Africa

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:58:48 CDT

August 13, 2006 NEW YORK TIMES: Into Africa By ALEX WILLIAMS AS the house lights dim for the second act of each performance of Madonna’s “Confessions” tour, the singer, wearing a crown of thorns, begins her 1986 anthem, “Live to Tell,” while her body hangs in mock crucifixion on a cross glittering with the mirrored tiles of a disco ball. Madonna has been riffing on crucifix imagery for two decades. What hauls the entire tableau vivant into the present are the images flickering behind her on screens: close-ups of African children, staring with mournful eyes, superimposed over crackling flames and a running ticker, which tallies at 12 million the number of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. That Madonna should suddenly be casting an ice-blue eye toward Africa should hardly be surprising. After all, she has always known how to spot a trend. And much as it may strain the limits of good taste to say it, Africa — rife with disease, famine, poverty and civil war — is suddenly “hot.” Beginning early in the decade with a trickle of celebrity fact-finding missions to strife-torn sub-Saharan nations (Bono in Ghana, Bono everywhere) that became a torrent within the last couple of years (Clay Aiken in Uganda, Jessica Simpson in Kenya), Africa has now been embraced by the masses. Those who work with or study Africa-related causes report that tourism in many African countries is way up, that students are increasingly choosing to study and volunteer there, and that money is pouring into Africa-centric charities — from grassroots efforts organized at churches and suburban dinner parties across the country, to larger aid organizations. Even among hipsters, clothing decorated with the image of Africa is beginning to replace last season’s Che Guevara T-shirts. “There is new life in the movement now,” said Lisa Szarkowski, spokeswoman for Unicef USA, who noted that Africa had been suffering from donor fatigue for years before celebrities like Bono began stumping for Third World debt relief and Angelina Jolie, who recently had a child in Namibia, helped renew interest. Now, there’s “more conversation, more possibility,” she said. “There is a lot of momentum.’’ Those newly interested in the continent have been motivated by different atrocities. For some it has been the genocide in Darfur; for others, AIDS orphans. But regardless of anyone’s specific interest, most people consistently describe being attracted by what they see as a clarity — both political and moral — in Africa’s problems. “I ask myself, ‘Why Africa?’ Why am I not motivated by Iran or something,” said Genevieve Parker, a 17-year-old student at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., who just returned from a summer trip to Ethiopia where she helped install pipes for an irrigation system. “It’s just because I don’t understand what’s going on: who are the good people, who are the bad?” In Africa, Ms. Parker said: “there are a lot of problems, but you can group them in together. I can organize Africa in my head, in terms of poverty, droughts, even governments.’’ And for many, at a time when the United States is divided into red and blue, for and against, cease-fire and bombs away, the seemingly unambiguous nature of Africa’s needs can be unifying. Daniel Millenson, a Brandeis University sophomore who is a leader of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, a nationwide movement aimed at persuading universities, governments and corporations to stop doing business with Sudan until the genocide there ends, said that Africa-related issues — famine, genocide, disease — don’t polarize people the way subjects like, say, the Iraq war does. “The issue is very popular because it can attract people from both sides, whether they support the war in Iraq or not,” Mr. Millenson said. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the movement to divest from Sudan is one of the most active movements on college campuses in at least 20 years. Still, why all the interest now? Yes, celebrities probably deserve much of the credit, but the bridge from Hollywood to Africa was constructed long before Angelina Jolie was born. Danny Kaye was running off to Africa for Unicef as far back as the Eisenhower years, and Bob Geldof pointed legions of superstars toward Africa in 1985 with his Live Aid concerts. Some Africa experts believe that the continent could be benefiting from an American public that is antsy to feel its goodness and influence, yet is simultaneously feeling itself shunned around much of the rest of the world. William Easterly, a professor of economics at New York University and author of the recent book “The White Man’s Burden: How the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good,” sees Africa as filling a sort of existential vacuum for Americans struggling in a post-Sept. 11 world. “We had this sudden awareness that there were all these people out there who hated us, and we needed people who, as far as we know, don’t hate us, and are in great need and we can help,” Professor Easterly said. “It’s the perfect meeting of needs — an intersection where we need Africa and Africa needs us.” Regardless of the exact reasons why Americans are responding, say educators, philanthropists, and activists, there is little doubt that the current burst of interest in Africa is markedly different from those of the past. Rarely, they say, has the popular interest in Africa spanned so many different issues and countries and inspired so many different people to take action. “Africa issues in the 80’s were usually concentrated on one country,’’ said Una Osili, an associate professor of economics and philanthropic studies at Indiana University who grew up in Nigeria. “Live Aid was concentrated around one issue — famine relief. Now, multiple issues are being addressed: HIV/AIDS, Darfur, the ongoing issue of poverty.’’ The focus now is regional, she said, ‘‘multi-country.” In terms of financial giving to the continent, no agency keeps track of every dollar directed there, though ‘‘it would be very safe to say it is going up,’’ said Carol Adelman, director of the Center on Global Prosperity, at the Hudson Institute in Washington. The fact that dollar-wielding Bills — Clinton and Gates — are on the loose, traveling to support their foundations, doesn’t hurt. Individually, many smaller charities say they are experiencing unprecedented generosity. “The response to our outreach has been dramatically improving — it’s risen fivefold” in the past few years, said Paul Newell, a director in the New York office of the Ubuntu Education Fund, which helps South Africans. A recent celebrity-dotted fund-raiser at the Puck Building in Manhattan featuring Kevin Bacon as the master of ceremonies — Donna Karan and Iman attended — blew past its initial fund-raising target by 50 percent, to raise $600,000, Mr. Newell said. And people are being inspired to start small charities of their own. In June, for example, 125 people, who in another time might have been content to mail Halloween pennies to Unicef, banded together at a Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., restaurant and held a silent auction to raise money ($30,000) for a hospital in Tanzania. “To build a hospital, the tangible evidence of where your money is going is very satisfying,’’ said Susan Konig, an organizer of the event. She added, “It was not some amorphous thing, but a tangible cinderblock building where in Tanzania people can get their eyes checked, receive AIDS medication, they can get pregnancy care.’’ The new Africa benefactors also want to experience Africa first-hand, educators and tourist officials say. Over the last few years, tourism among Americans is up in Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia and South Africa, according to national tourist boards and embassies for those countries. From 2003 to 2005, travel to Kenya doubled to 73,000, and is up nearly 16 percent so far this year. American visitors to South Africa leaped to 233,000 in 2005, from 170,000 in 2001. As for students, James Ellis, the director of international relations for the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, also noted a marked increase in Americans coming to study at the university in recent years, and sees a shift in their motives. In the 90’s they came out of curiosity to catch a glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa. Now, he said, they come and tutor children and build housing. “They want,” Dr. Ellis said, to “have a sense of ‘we’ve left something, we’ve done something.’ ” Similarly, parishioners at Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison, Wis., not only raised $200,000 for Rwanda in five months, but last fall sent seven missionaries there to assist the poor — one of them Ellen Murdoch, 58, who said she was moved to action after renting the 2004 movie “Hotel Rwanda” on DVD. But where does all the good will leave Africa? When it comes to celebrity interest, it’s not hard to find cynics, especially since rarely does a day go by that some Page Six personalities are not draping themselves in some African cause — Jay-Z on clean water, Gwyneth Paltrow on aid to children, and Lucy Liu on AIDS. Michael Musto, the Village Voice celebrity columnist, dismisses the current interest in Africa as merely the cause-of-the-moment among A-listers and charities. “Celebrities,” Mr. Musto said, “have added a glamorous patina to it.” And to themselves, he said, especially if they need a little good press, like Lindsay Lohan, who has suffered through a year of rough tabloid treatment for her party-girl ways and has vowed to visit Kenya in support of the One Campaign. And Paul Theroux, a writer who served in the Peace Corps in Africa in the ’60’s, cautioned against ennobling oneself through grandiose gestures there in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times last December. “Because Africa seems unfinished and so different from the rest of the world, a landscape on which a person can sketch a new personality, it attracts mythomaniacs,” he wrote, arguing that Africa needs to cultivate its own saviors. But, said Morgan Binswanger, a former liaison between performers and philanthropies for Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles: “There’s self-interest and there’s enlightened self-interest, and the fringe between the two is gray. I think those that step forward and really carry out enlightened self-interest move an agenda.” Alyssa Milano certainly hopes that is true. The actress, who toured civil-war-torn Angola in 2003 (and strayed into an active minefield, without incident), said Africa is one way celebrities can transform an unprecedented level of scrutiny into their lives into something productive. Don Cheadle, the star of “Hotel Rwanda,” declined to pass judgment on whether Africa had indeed become a self-serving celebrity fad, now that even the youngest stars like Ms. Lohan are getting serious about it. But, Mr. Cheadle said he feels that celebrities can have an impact: “People in Rwanda told me personally that the movie had a huge impact. They said people always used to come to see the gorillas and now they’re coming just out of interest in Rwanda itself.” The larger question is whether soccer moms and flyover people will continue to care about Africa once the celebrities move on. As Mr. Musto said, “Just like a trendy restaurant lasts 18 month, so will interest in Africa.” Paula Schwartz contributed reporting for this article. 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Everett Aviation: Helicopter Services

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:32:16 CDT

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Everett Aviation: Engineering, Eurocopter Service Station

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:30:13 CDT

Everett Aviation: Engineering, Eurocopter Service Station Everett Engineering offers the highest standards of helicopter maintenance. Recognised and appointed by Eurocopter in 2004 as their helicopter maintenance centre for Eastern Africa, Everett Aviation is the only such appointed centre outside Southern Africa. Everett Engineering's engineers are fully licensed by the KCAA and are factory trained. We were certified in November 2005 to the ISO9001:2000 quality standard, giving both our engineering department and the company as a whole an international standard of quality and excellence. Everett Aviation's rapid response team can travel widely and swiftly across the region to repair or maintain your helicopter. In addition to regular maintenance Everett Engineering also specialises in NVG (Night Vision) cockpit lighting conversions to complement the NVG pilot training.

Honey, run out and rent us a helicopter

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:28:44 CDT

Honey, run out and rent us a DVD, and a helicopter Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:31am ET148 BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbs seeking a bit of extra protection or perhaps a helicopter for the weekend can now turn to the police, which from this month will be renting out its personnel, transport and even animals for private use. According to a detailed price list published in the official gazette, the cost of hiring a policeman to guard money transports or sports events would be 300 dinars ($4.50) an hour. A police horse goes for 2,400 dinars a day, a trained dog for 1,800 dinars a day, and a helicopter for between 45,000 and 140,000 dinars per hour depending on the type. The government said the scheme was designed as "a chance for police to gain additional financial means and have their own income." A statement published on the official government Web site said both individuals and companies would be entitled to use those services, but the process would be under the strict control of the Interior Ministry to prevent abuses. © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-11T205004Z_01_L11631489_RTRUKOC_0_US-SERBIA-POLICE.xml &WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R2-Today-9

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Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:16:14 CDT

Contenu courant d'alimentation * Forum de Helitorque - lien commandité par Everett Aviation Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:47 : 18 CDT forum de http://www.helitorque.com/portal/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index Helitorque - lien commandité par des associations d'industrie d'hélicoptère d'Everett Aviation http://www.helitorque.com/portal/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index : C'est un forum ouvert pour tous les associations, groupes, et clubs autour du monde consacré au monde des hélicoptères pour signaler vos nouvelles, rencontrant l'information, et les mises à jour générales. Employer ce forum pour atteindre chacun, pas simplement vos membres et pour favoriser votre cause. Ressources d'Internet : L'industrie d'hélicoptère dans le monde entier est apportée grâce plus étroite et plus étroite à l'arrivée du World Wide Web. Si vous savez d'une ressource pour des membres et des visiteurs ici pour employer alors la signaler. Lecture essentielle : S'il y a un livre, vidéo ou DVD que vous pensez que les membres devraient se rendre compte d'puis le signalent ici dans ce forum. Emploi Q et A : Les pilotes et le personnel d'industrie d'hélicoptère signalent vos conditions de cv, de disponibilité et de travail ici… * Magazine de Heli-Ops - lien commandité par Everett Aviation Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:38 : 02 CDT Le magazine de Heli-Ops est maintenant la SEULE publication d'hélicoptère consacrée à couvrir l'industrie civile d'un véritable point de vue global, t'apportant l'assurance de toutes les régions du monde. Chaque question est pleine des dispositifs écrits par ceux dans l'industrie, accompagnée de la photographie de classe du monde par certains des meilleurs photographes dans l'industrie. Heli-Ops vise un certain nombre de secteurs principaux des opérateurs d'hélicoptère situés autour du monde. * Des propriétaires des hélicoptères * les chefs civiques et les décideurs d'industrie * les entreprises de service public dans le monde entier qui utilisent des hélicoptères en tant qu'élément de leurs services * grand public intéressé à l'utilisation des hélicoptères Heli-Ops est commis à vous apporter : * Le premier mot sur de nouveaux produits, nouveaux livraisons et événements dans les articles détaillés et instructifs d'industrie d'hélicoptère * exclusivités et rapports du monde de la ligne de front de l'industrie *, profils d'opérateur et rapports pilotes * dispositifs de valeur inestimable éducatifs, d'entretien et de sûreté * tous dans la couleur renversante avec la photographie de classe du monde * envoyée par avion directement à vos copies de porte de magazine de Heli-Ops sont expédiés dans le monde entier à tous les opérateurs civils d'hélicoptère. En outre, nos abonnés viennent de beaucoup de beaucoup de pays. Heli-Ops également est distribué dans le monde entier à tous les événements principaux d'aviation qui ont un effet sur l'industrie. COMMANDER UN KIT DE MÉDIAS DE MAGNÉTIQUE DE HELIOPS ICI : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : lier commandité par Everett Aviation * Aviation d'Everertt - la flotte d'Everett Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:25 : 38 CDT L'aviation d'Everett de flotte d'Everett a un éventail d'hélicoptères pour vos besoins. Cet VIP hélicoptère d'Eurocopter AS355-N est le seul par IFR hélicoptère certifié une, et de seulement deux machines de bi-moteur dans la région. Il peut être équipé 4 d'un passager VIP intérieur ou de la configuration de passager de la norme 5. Il a la climatisation et un système stéréo de musique. Il est entièrement équipé pour le vol d'IFR, du radar de temps, du Stormscope et d'un pilote automatique couplé 3 par axes. Il également des équipements a d'à haute fréquence, de VHF/FM et d'UHF/FM communication, a l'ajustage de précision pour un crochet de cargaison, SX16 « Nightsun » et a entièrement un habitacle compatible de NVG. Pour la sûreté supplémentaire, l'hélicoptère a un enregistreur de données et de moteur de vol de « mini FREDONNEMENTS » installé. Eurocopter BO105-LS basé à l'hôpital international, Kampala (ajouter le lien) cet hélicoptère est employé principalement pour le medivac, mais a également un intérieur de 4 passagers VIP. Nous actionnons la version de « LS » de cet hélicoptère qui est équipé d'une grue de délivrance, crochet de cargaison et a entièrement un habitacle compatible de NVG. Pour la sûreté supplémentaire, l'hélicoptère a un appareil d'enregistrement sur bande magnétique de vol et un GPS basés système de piste installé. Cet avion particulièrement fiable et vigoureux est actionné par deux Allison 250 - les moteurs de C28C qui produisent 500 la HP chacun. Ces plus grands moteurs tiennent compte de l'exécution exceptionnelle dans le `chaud et environnement de haute le' dans lequel nous l'actionnons a une gamme sans réapprovisionnement en combustible de 2 heures ou 210nm à la vitesse de croisière de 105 noeuds. Il assied quatre passagers dans son rôle de V.I.P., et a un intérieur facilement interchangeable qui peut être facilement configuré au rôle médical selon la nature de l'urgence. Il peut adapter à deux personnels médicaux de civière et de deux posé accidents ou à une civière et à personnel médical posé de trois accidents. Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) le cheval de labour de la flotte. Peut transporter jusqu'à 5 passagers. L'avion a une estimation externe de charge de jusqu'à 1,000kgs et est bien adapté pour tous les types de travail de pelliculage. Le B2 a une vitesse de croisière de 110kts (200km/h) et une résistance de 3 heures. Cet hélicoptère est équipé des dérapages élevés et d'un filtre de sable, lui permettant de fonctionner bien outre de la voie battue. Il également des équipements a d'à haute fréquence, de VHF/FM et d'UHF/FM communication, a l'ajustage de précision pour un crochet de cargaison, la grue de délivrance, SX16 « Nightsun » et a entièrement un habitacle compatible de NVG. Pour la sûreté supplémentaire, l'hélicoptère a un enregistreur de données et de moteur de vol de « mini FREDONNEMENTS » installé. Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) ce petit hélicoptère est principalement employé pour la formation pilote et s'est prouvé extrêmement souple, en particulier à l'appui du service de faune où l'avion a été utilisé pour des comptes de jeu et des opérations de dard. Il est également disponible pour la charte. Il peut transporter jusqu'à deux passagers, mais mieux est convenu à un. Le 280C a une vitesse de croisière de 80kts (150km/h) et une résistance de 2 heures. * Histoire d'hélicoptère - commanditée par Everett Aviation Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:24 : 39 CDT HÉLICOPTÈRE SUR EVEREST - l'hélicoptère le fait à histoire les coupures remarquables de vol d'Eurocopter le disque du monde pour l'atterrissage et le décollage de l'altitude la plus élevée jamais, pour n'importe quelle machine de vol sur terre, et place une étape importante indéniable dans l'histoire de l'aviation. L'événement inattendu a été annoncé par les grimpeurs, bas inférieur coincé sur Everest pendant des semaines par de forts vents persistants, comme « découpeur de mystère. » Eurocopter a fait le foin à la suite de l'événement. Fabrice Bregier, président et PRÉSIDENT du groupe d'Europcopter, un principal fabricant d'hélicoptère, a immédiatement félicité le pilote et son équipe pour cet exploit extraordinaire. Selon Eurocopter, voici ce qui s'est produit : Après le décollage de son camp de base Lukla le 14 mai 2005 à 2.866 mètres (9,403ft) de Didier Delsalle a piloté son Ecureuil AS350B3 jusqu'au dessus du bâti Everest. Selon les exigences de la fédération Aeronautique Internationale (FAI - fédération aéronautique internationale), l'avion est resté débarqué sur la terre plus de 2 minutes sur le dessus du monde avant de voler de nouveau à Lukla. Faisant un pas hors de son hélicoptère, Didier Delsalle a commenté : « Atteindre ce sommet mythique a définitivement semblé être un rêve ; en dépit des difficultés évidentes de la cible à atteindre, l'avion a démontré ses possibilités pour faire face à la situation, sublimée par la magie de l'endroit. Réalisé avec un hélicoptère de production, ce disque absolu du monde souligne la capacité de l'Ecureuil/AStar AS350 B3 comme hélicoptère universel, qui après que cet Eurocopter espère peut jaillir émerge comme meilleur hélicoptère de exécution dans le monde en conditions les plus extrêmes. http://www.greatoutdoors.com/published/general/expeditions/helicopteroneverestmakeshistory/ * Histoire d'hélicoptère - commanditée par Everett Aviation Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:22 : 25 CDT En 1842, presque cinquante ans après monsieur George Cayley, l'Anglais W.H. de camarade Phillips ont construit un hélicoptère modèle qui a pesé 20 livres (9 kilogrammes) et a été conduit par la vapeur. Il a proposé une machine normale de trois-propulseur (un propulseur pour l'ascenseur, et deux pour la commande directionnelle), mais elle n'a été jamais établie. En 1878, Enrico Forlanini, un ingénieur italien, a également construit une vapeur conduite l'hélicoptère modèle qui a seulement pesé 7.7 livres (3.5 kilogrammes). En 1880, Thomas Edison était le premier Américain pour effectuer n'importe quelle recherche notable sur des hélicoptères. Edison a construit un banc d'essai et a examiné plusieurs différents propulseurs à l'aide d'un moteur électrique. Il a déduit qu'afin de créer un hélicoptère faisable, il a eu besoin d'un moteur léger qui pourrait produire une grande quantité de puissance. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/design/helicopter/history.shtml * JUBA, Soudan Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:20 : 59 CDT http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-garang16jul16,1,5521451.story?coll=la-news-a_section de la gauche rebelle Ex-Soudanaise de Los Angeles Times un legs de Ce qui-Statistiques financière internationale par Edmund Sanders chronomètre l'auteur le 16 juillet 2006 JUBA, Soudan de personnel - son mémorial semble intact depuis l'enterrement il y a une année. La toiture en aluminium provisoire couvre des paniers des fleurs en plastique poussiéreuses. Drapeaux déchirés en lambeaux et coup de effacement de tresse mollement des faisceaux en métal. Pourtant chaque jour, visiteurs coulent près pour payer leurs respects au Chef rebelle soudanais John Garang, qui a mené une guerre civile de 21 ans contre le gouvernement avant de signer une affaire de paix de borne limite, seulement pour mourir six mois plus tard dans un accident d'hélicoptère. Autour de Juba, le capital dilapidé du Soudan méridional, beaucoup ne peut pas aider mais se demander ce qui pourrait avoir été. Garang aurait-il fixé un rôle plus fort pour ses habitants du sud de camarade dans le nouveau gouvernement de coalition mené par son ennemi suprême ci-devant, le Président soudanais Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir ? Garang aurait-il réparé sur son engagement pour résoudre l'entretoise dans la région occidentale de Darfur, qui a empiré depuis sa mort ? Aurait-il poussé pour un développement plus rapide dans les sud long-négligés ? « Si Garang étaient toujours autour, la vie serait différente, » a dit Samuel Gouorid, 41, se penchant au-dessus de son stand d'aubergine et de chaux sur le marché central de Juba. C'est un refrain commun de nos jours dans Juba. Pendant des décennies, peupler Khartoum ici blâmé pour leur situation difficile, accusant le gouvernement nordique d'abandonner les sud, d'abord dans la revanche pour la guerre civile et, plus tard, à saisissent plus facilement la commande de ses ressources pétrolières. Mais une année après qu'un nouveau gouvernement méridional ait gagné l'autonomie pour la région, peu a changé, les résidants disent. La ville manque de l'électricité répandue et de l'eau courante et a toujours seulement deux routes pavées. Les mines de terre des années de bataille restent enterrées autour des périphéries du capital. Les prix de logement et de terre montent en flèche en raison de l'afflux des ouvriers de gouvernement et d'aide. Les terrains de camping de Tented chargent $150 par nuit. Certains, cependant, voient l'amélioration modeste. Les réparations à la route liant Juba à la frontière avec l'Ouganda ont rapporté les expéditions quotidiennes du chou, de l'ananas et des bananes frais. Les prix d'un grand renvoient du maïs sont descendus de $35 il y a par an à $6 aujourd'hui grâce à l'approvisionnement accru. Vendeur Garang Abany, 36 de meubles, dit qu'il a récemment vendu trois $7.000 ensembles de chambre à coucher, nouvellement importés de Dubaï. De telles ventes de luxe avaient été inconnues. Mais le progrès demeure inégal. Au statehouse minable de deux-histoire pour la région, les ouvriers de gouvernement emploient Windows XP et Internet à grande vitesse, mais les toilettes ne fonctionnent toujours pas et il y a des trous dans les murs. « Si Garang revenait et voyait ce qui se produisait, » a dit Venansio Tombe Muludiang, vice-président de député à l'université de Juba, « il irait de nouveau à sa tombe. » Les chefs chargés de remplir chaussures de Garang dites une telle impatience n'étonnaient pas. Rebecca Garang, la veuve du chef rebelle, qui dirige le ministère des routes et du transport dans le gouvernement méridional, a dit qu'un projet de construction et de rénovation de $777-million pour Juba a reçu tout récemment le signal de départ. Cela a pris une année pour mettre des règles et les directives financières en place pour choisir et payer des entrepreneurs, elle a dit. Les décennies du sous-développement par le gouvernement islamiste dans Khartoum ont contribué à retarde, rendant la construction chère et longue. Les approvisionnements ne sont pas disponibles localement, ainsi cela coûte $48 pour transporter un sac $6 de ciment à Juba, a dit Gary McGurk, directeur auxiliaire de pays pour le SOIN international, un fonctionnement de groupe d'aide pour ouvrir un bureau dans Juba. Rebecca Garang a souligné que son mari s'est rendu compte que les améliorations prendraient du temps. Elle a dit qu'il serait fait frémir pour voir que l'affaire de paix qu'il a négociée et le mouvement politique il a fondé étaient toujours en place. « Il a su que l'exécution de la paix ne serait pas facile, » a dit Garang, un ancien commandant rebelle. « Il a su qu'il y aurait se lève et avale. Mais il serait heureux de voir que nous continuons la lutte. Les choses vont lentement, mais dans la bonne direction. Nous faisons exactement ce qu'il aurait fait. » En janvier 2005, John Garang et Bashir ont signé les États-Unis - l'affaire sponsorisée de paix qui a fini la guerre civile long-courante de l'Afrique, qui a piqué des rebelles de chrétien et d'animiste dans les sud contre le gouvernement Arabe-dominé musulman dans Khartoum. Le conflit a tué 2 millions de personnes environ, les la plupart de qui est mort de la maladie et faim, et déplacé 4 millions. Il y a une année, Garang a fait un retour beaucoup-annoncé au capital soudanais, Khartoum, pour prendre son rôle comme vice-président dans le nouveau gouvernement de coalition. Les millions ont salué son de retour, remplissant de combustible la spéculation que Garang pourrait constituer une menace sérieuse à Bashir dans des élections libres en unissant des groupes d'opposition dans les sud, l'ouest et l'est. Moins qu'un mois après qu'il ait pris le bureau, l'hélicoptère de Garang s'est brisé dans le mauvais temps le 30 juillet. Les investigations officielles blâment l'erreur pilote, mais plusieurs des défenseurs de Garang suspectent le jeu fétide. Le successeur de Garang, Salva Kiir, a gagné des revues mélangées. Le chef militaire, qui était le non 2 de Garang et le rival occasionnel dans le mouvement de la libération des personnes du Soudan, manque du charisme de son prédécesseur mais l'est parvenu à maintenir le gouvernement méridional uni. « Nous travaillons comme conduite collective maintenant, avec un porte-parole : Salva Kiir, » a dit Riek Machar, un autre député de Garang, servant maintenant de vice-président des sud. Les comparaisons avec Garang sont inévitables mais injustes, Machar dit, parce que Garang n'a jamais eu la chance de démontrer ses capacités régissantes. « Nous n'avons rien à comparer contre, » Machar dit. « Garang n'a pas survécu cela longtemps d'un moment dans Khartoum. Seulement deux semaines. Vous ne pouvez pas vraiment dire qu'on est meilleur que l'autre. » Kiir, qui sert de vice-président du gouvernement national et de président des sud, a adopté une approche plus conciliante que beaucoup croient que Garang aurait. Après la prise de la charge, Kiir atteinte dehors pour rivaliser les milices méridionales et les a incorporées au gouvernement méridional, quelque chose Garang a semblé incapable ou peu disposée de faire. Les compromis de Kiir avec Khartoum ont été moins populaires. Après la mort de Garang, la partie du congrès national de Bashir a insisté pour la commande de retenue du ministère convoité d'huile, qui a été attendu aller au SPLM. La plupart de réservations du pétrole du Soudan sont dans les sud, mais les habitants du sud ont reçu tout récemment leur premier acompte de bénéfice d'huile - environ $800 millions - sous une disposition 50-50 de partage dans l'affaire de paix. Kiir et d'autres se plaignent qu'ils ont ne pu pas passer en revue la production et les figures financières pour les confirmer reçoivent leur partie équitable. D'autres ministères de gouvernement ont été dépouillés des puissances principales avant d'être remise au SPLM, fonctionnaires dits, précisant que la commande des aéroports a été enlevée du ministère de transport. En semaines récentes, Kiir avait intensifié la rhétorique contre Khartoum. Il a dit que les éléments principaux de l'accord complet de paix sont demeurés non définis, y compris la commande de la ville principale d'huile d'Abyei, de la délimitation finale de la frontière au nord-sud et de la distribution du bénéfice d'huile. « À moins que nous accomplissons le progrès sur ces sujets, je ne peux pas voir comment le reste du CPA peut survivre, » Kiir dit récemment. D'autres membres du conseil méridionaux étaient plus émoussés. « Ils ne s'occupent pas en bonne foi, » a dit Samson Kwaje, ministre de l'information des sud. « Ils achètent le temps et espèrent la saboter plus tard. » Dans un signe de la tension croissante dans le gouvernement de coalition, Kiir publiquement s'est cassé avec Bashir récemment au-dessus de l'opposition du président au déploiement des troupes des Nations Unies dans Darfur. Les chefs de SPLM ont également exprimé le scepticisme au-dessus d'une affaire de paix atteints en Darfur, dire il a seulement servi à diviser des rebelles dans l'ouest. Mais Kiir doit faire attention à affirmer la position du SPLM sans fendre le gouvernement fragile de coalition, ses défenseurs indiquent. En vertu de l'affaire de paix, les deux côtés ont accepté de fonctionner ensemble jusqu'en 2011, quand les habitants du sud obtiendront la chance de voter sur la secession. « Nous sommes verrouillés dans ce rapport, » Machar dit. « Nous essayons de le donner fortuit. » * Juba est le capital régional du Soudan méridional Signalé : 22 jui. 2006 22:09 : 21 CDT Juba est le capital régional du Soudan méridional et le capital de l'état soudanais d'Equatoria central. Dans 2005 sa population avait 163.442 ans. Développement de population : La population 1973 (recensement) d'année 56.737 1983 (recensement) 83.787 1993 (recensement) 114.980 2005 (calcul) 163.442 [éditer] espoirs britanniques d'histoire de joindre la région méridionale du Soudan avec l'Ouganda étaient à tiret en 1947 par un accord dans Juba, également connu sous le nom de conférence de Juba, pour unifier le Soudan nordique et méridional. En 1955, une révolte des soldats méridionaux dans la ville a étincelé la première guerre civile soudanaise, qui n'a pas fini jusqu'en 1972. Pendant la deuxième guerre civile soudanaise, Juba était un endroit stratégique qui était le centre beaucoup du combat. En 2005, Juba a été remis à l'armée de la libération des personnes soudanaises. La ville sert de capital régional permanent du Soudan méridional, bien que le capital d'intérim ait été Rumbek. [éditer] l'infrastructure la ville est un port fluvial et le terminus méridional du trafic le long du fleuve le Nil. C'est également un hub de transport, avec des routes le reliant au Kenya, en Ouganda et la République démocratique du Congo. En raison de la guerre ce « hub de transport » ne fonctionnera plus. Les routes et le port sont non utilisables maintenant. C'est en raison de la guerre civile, qui a fini après 20 ans en janvier 2005. Maintenant l'ONU répare les routes, parce que pendant la guerre toutes routes ont été démolies, par des bombes ou par la forte pluie. La base suisse pour l'action de mine (FSD) a commencé en 2003 à dégager les routes menant à partir de Juba en Ouganda et au Kenya. On s'attend à ce que ces routes puissent être complètement demined et ont reconstruit au cours de 2006. La reconstruction des routes (la route est un grand mot) prend beaucoup de travail, parce que dans la saison des pluies elles ne peuvent pas travailler à elles. À partir de novembre jusqu'à février a lieu la saison sèche. Ils ont commencé à reconstruire la route en Ouganda, parce que plusieurs des habitants originaux de Juba se sont sauvés en Ouganda pendant la guerre. Les routes sont importantes pour le processus de paix, les gens ont besoin de eux pour retourner à leurs maisons, pour prendre « la vie quotidienne » encore. Maintenant dans Juba il y a seulement une route pavée. C'est une route bétonnée, construction par l'anglais dans les années '50. La reconstruction de Juba est entièrement de processus maintenant. La ville est l'endroit de l'université de Juba. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Sudan Soudan méridional de Wikipedia, le saut libre d'encyclopédie : navigation, recherche Soudan méridional le drapeau de SPLA/M du drapeau du « nouveau Soudan » de la carte méridionale du Soudan de l'anglais méridional de langues officielles du Soudan, le Président capital arabe le Cdr de Juba. Le vice-président Dr. Riek Machar Area 597 de Salva Kiir Mayardit 000 kilomètres de population de ² - le total (2005) - densité le fuseau horaire De livre soudanaise de devise de ² de peut-être 8.500.000 14/km UTC+3 Soudan méridional est une région du Soudan. Le gouvernement soudanais a accepté de donner l'autonomie à la région dans l'accord complet de paix signé le 9 janvier 2005 dans Naivasha, Kenya avec le SPLA/M, apportant à titre d'essai une extrémité à la deuxième guerre civile soudanaise. Le Soudan méridional encadre l'Ethiopie sur l'est, le Kenya, l'Ouganda, et la République démocratique du Congo aux sud, et de la République centrafricaine à l'ouest. Au nord se trouve la région principalement arabe et musulmane directement sous la commande du gouvernement central. Le rapport entre le Soudan méridional autonome et les secteurs voisins de l'état bleu du Nil, les montagnes de Nuba/Kurdufan méridional, et l'Abyei a pour être définitivement déterminé encore, bien que pour l'instant ce soient efficacement une partie du nord. Le Soudan méridional comprend les dix états, composant autrefois les provinces d'EL Ghazal (Al du nord Ghazal de Bahr, Al occidental Ghazal, lacs de Bahr, et Warab) d'Equatoria (à savoir Equatoria central, Equatoria est, et Equatoria occidental), de Bahr, et de Nil supérieur (Junqali, Wahdah, et Nil supérieur). En attendant des élections, des sièges dans l'Assemblée méridionale du Soudan et le gouvernement du Soudan méridional doivent être divisés dans une proportion fixe entre le SPLM (70%), le NCP (l'ancien NIF) (15%), et de « autres forces politiques méridionales » (15%). Avant sa mort le 30 juillet 2005, le Chef rebelle à long terme John Garang était le président du Soudan méridional. Garang a été réussi par Salva Kiir Mayardit qui a été juré dedans en tant que d'abord vice-président du Soudan le 11 août 2005. La région méridionale a une population d'environ 9 millions et principalement un rural, économie de subsistance. Cette région a été négativement affectée par les premières et deuxièmes guerres civiles soudanaises pour tout sauf 10 ans puisque l'indépendance en 1956, ayant pour résultat la négligence sérieuse, le manque de développement d'infrastructure, et la destruction et le déplacement principaux. Plus de 2 millions de personnes sont morts, et plus de 4 millions sont intérieurement déplacés ou ont les réfugiés devenus en raison de la guerre civile et des impacts guerre-connexes. La région a été frappée par la famine occasionnelle. Une famine 1998 a tué des centaines de milliers, alors qu'une urgence de nourriture était déclarée dans mid-2005. Ces dernières années, une quantité significative de forage d'huile étranger-basé a commencé au Soudan méridional, soulevant le profil géopolitique de la terre à l'étranger. Le plus grand consortium d'outre-mer est commandé près ; La Chine, avec un enjeu de 40%, Malaisie, avec 30%, et l'Inde, avec 25%. [2] le Talisman Canadien-basé de compagnie pétrolière a retiré des opérations au Soudan en 2003, le dû en grande partie aux questions externes de droits de l'homme politiques et d'excédent d'incitation et de pression.

HeliTorque Photo Galleries

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:00:31 CDT

http://www.helitorque.com/portal/modules.php?name=gallery HeliTorque Photo Galleries HeliTorque Helicopter Cockpit Gallery Last changed on 05/05/06. This album contains 10 items. This album has been viewed 782 times since 03/15/06.

Everett Aviation: Everett Fleet Services

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:55:16 CDT

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Helitorque Forum - Link Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:47:18 CDT

http://www.helitorque.com/portal/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index Helitorque Forum - Link Sponsored by Everett Aviation http://www.helitorque.com/portal/modules.php?name=Forums&file=index Helicopter Industry Associations: This is an open forum for all associations, groups, and clubs around the world dedicated to the world of helicopters to post your news items, meeting info, and general updates. Use this forum to reach everyone, not just your members and promote your cause. Internet Resources: The helicopter industry worldwide is being brought closer and closer thanks to the advent of the world wide web. If you know of a resource for members and visitors here to use then post it. Essential Reading: If there is a book, video or DVD you think members should be aware of then post it here in this forum. Employment Q & A: Pilots and helicopter industry personnel post your CV's, availability and work requirements here...

Heli-Ops magazine - Link Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:38:02 CDT

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Everertt Aviation - The Everett Fleet

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:25:38 CDT

The Everett Fleet Everett Aviation has a wide range of helicopters for your needs. Eurocopter AS355-N This VIP helicopter is the only IFR certified helicopter, and one of only two twin engine machines in the region. It can be fitted with a 4 passenger VIP interior or the standard 5 passenger configuration. It has air conditioning and a stereo music system. It is fully equipped for IFR flight, with weather radar, Stormscope and a 3 axis coupled autopilot. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala (add link) this helicopter is used primarily for medivac, but also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. We operate the “LS” version of this helicopter which is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. This exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft is powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each. These larger engines allow for exceptional performance in the ‘hot and high’ environment in which we operate It has a range without re-fuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knots. It seats four passengers in its V.I.P. role, and has an easily interchangeable interior which can be easily configured to the medical role depending on the nature of the emergency. It can accommodate two stretchers and two seated casualties/ medical staff or one stretcher and three seated casualties/ medical staff. Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) The workhorse of the fleet. Can carry up to 5 passengers. The aircraft has an external load rating of up to 1,000kgs and is well suited for all types of filming work. The B2 has a cruising speed of 110kts (200km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours. This helicopter is equipped with high skids and a sand filter, allowing it to operate well off the beaten track. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, rescue hoist, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) This small helicopter is primarily used for pilot training and has proved itself extremely versatile, particularly in support of the wildlife service where the aircraft has been utilized for game counts and darting operations. It is also available for charter. It can carry up to two passengers, but is better suited to one. The 280C has a cruising speed of 80kts (150km/h) and an endurance of 2 hours.

Helicopter History - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:24:39 CDT

HELICOPTER ON EVEREST - Helicopter Makes History he remarkable Eurocopter flight breaks the World Record for the highest altitude landing and take-off ever, for any flying machine on Earth, and sets an undeniable milestone in the history of aviation. The unexpected event was heralded by climbers, stuck lower down on Everest for weeks by persistent high winds, as the "mystery chopper." Eurocopter has made hay in the wake of the event. Fabrice Bregier, President and CEO of the Europcopter Group, a leading helicopter manufacturer, immediately congratulated the pilot and his team for this extraordinary feat. According to Eurocopter, here's what happened: After taking off from its base camp Lukla on May 14th, 2005 at 2,866 meters (9,403ft) Didier Delsalle piloted his Ecureuil AS350B3 to the top of Mount Everest. As required by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI - International Aeronautical Federation), the aircraft remained landed on ground more than 2 minutes on the top of the world before flying back to Lukla. Stepping out of his helicopter, Didier Delsalle commented: "To reach this mythical summit definitively seemed to be a dream; despite the obvious difficulties of the target to be reached, the aircraft demonstrated its capability to cope with the situation, sublimated by the magic of the place. Achieved with a production helicopter, this absolute World Record underlines the ability of the Ecureuil/AStar AS350 B3 as a multipurpose helicopter, which after this Eurocopter hopes may well emerge as the best performing helicopter in the world in the most extreme conditions. http://www.greatoutdoors.com/published/general/expeditions/helicopteroneverestmakeshistory/

Helicopter History - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:22:25 CDT

In 1842, almost fifty years after Sir George Cayley, fellow Englishman W. H. Phillips constructed a model helicopter that weighed 20 pounds (9 kg) and was driven by steam. He proposed a full-sized three-propeller machine (one propeller for lift, and two for directional control), but it was never built. In 1878, Enrico Forlanini, an Italian civil engineer, also constructed a steam driven model helicopter that only weighed 7.7 lb (3.5 kg). In 1880, Thomas Edison was the first American to perform any notable research on helicopters. Edison built a test stand and tested several different propellers using an electric motor. He deduced that in order to create a feasible helicopter, he needed a lightweight engine that could produce a large amount of power. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/design/helicopter/history.shtml

JUBA, Sudan

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:20:59 CDT

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-garang16jul16,1,5521451.story?coll=la-news-a_section From the Los Angeles Times Ex-Sudanese Rebel Left a Legacy of What-Ifs By Edmund Sanders Times Staff Writer July 16, 2006 JUBA, Sudan — His memorial appears untouched since the funeral a year ago. Temporary aluminum roofing covers baskets of dusty plastic flowers. Tattered flags and fading tinsel hang limply from metal beams. Yet each day, visitors stream by to pay their respects to Sudanese rebel leader John Garang, who led a 21-year civil war against the government before signing a landmark peace deal, only to die six months later in a helicopter crash. Around Juba, the dilapidated capital of southern Sudan, many can't help but wonder what might have been. Would Garang have secured a stronger role for his fellow southerners in the new coalition government led by his onetime archenemy, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir? Would Garang have made good on his pledge to resolve the standoff in the western region of Darfur, which has worsened since his death? Would he have pushed for faster development in the long-neglected south? "If Garang were still around, life would be different," said Samuel Gouorid, 41, leaning over his stand of eggplant and limes in Juba's central market. It's a common refrain these days in Juba. For decades, people here blamed Khartoum for their plight, accusing the northern government of abandoning the south, first in retaliation for the civil war and, later, to more easily seize control of its oil resources. But a year after a new southern government won autonomy for the region, little has changed, residents say. The city still lacks widespread electricity and running water and has only two paved roads. Land mines from years of battle remain buried around the capital's outskirts. Housing and land prices are skyrocketing because of the influx of government and aid workers. Tented campsites charge $150 a night. Some, however, see modest improvement. Repairs to the highway linking Juba to the border with Uganda have yielded daily shipments of fresh cabbage, pineapple and bananas. Prices for a large sack of corn have plummeted from $35 a year ago to $6 today thanks to increased supply. Furniture salesman Garang Abany, 36, said that he recently sold three $7,000 bedroom sets, newly imported from Dubai. Such luxury sales had been unheard of. But progress remains uneven. At the shabby two-story statehouse for the region, government workers use Windows XP and high-speed Internet, but toilets still don't work and there are holes in the walls. "If Garang came back and saw what was happening," said Venansio Tombe Muludiang, deputy vice chancellor at Juba University, "he would go back to his grave." Leaders charged with filling Garang's shoes said such impatience was not surprising. Rebecca Garang, the rebel leader's widow, who heads the Ministry of Roads and Transport in the southern government, said a $777-million construction and refurbishment project for Juba only recently received the go-ahead. It's taken a year to put rules and financial guidelines in place for selecting and paying contractors, she said. Decades of underdevelopment by the Islamist government in Khartoum contributed to delays, making construction expensive and time-consuming. Supplies are not available locally, so it costs $48 to transport a $6 bag of cement to Juba, said Gary McGurk, assistant country director for CARE International, an aid group working to open an office in Juba. Rebecca Garang emphasized that her husband realized that improvements would take time. She said he would be thrilled to see that the peace deal he negotiated and the political movement he founded were still in place. "He knew implementation of peace would not be easy," said Garang, a former rebel commander. "He knew there would be ups and downs. But he would be happy to see that we are continuing with the struggle. Things are going slowly, but in the right direction. We are doing exactly what he would have done." In January 2005, John Garang and Bashir signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal that ended Africa's longest-running civil war, which pitted Christian and animist rebels in the south against the Muslim Arab-dominated government in Khartoum. The conflict killed an estimated 2 million people, most of whom died of disease and hunger, and displaced 4 million. A year ago, Garang made a much-heralded return to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to take his role as vice president in the new coalition government. Millions greeted his return, fueling speculation that Garang could pose a serious threat to Bashir in free elections by uniting opposition groups in the south, west and east. Less than a month after he took office, Garang's helicopter crashed in bad weather July 30. Official investigations blame pilot error, but many of Garang's supporters suspect foul play. Garang's successor, Salva Kiir, has won mixed reviews. The military leader, who was Garang's No. 2 and occasional rival in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, lacks the charisma of his predecessor but has managed to keep the southern government united. "We're working as a collective leadership now, with one spokesman: Salva Kiir," said Riek Machar, another Garang deputy, now serving as vice president of the south. Comparisons with Garang are inevitable but unfair, Machar said, because Garang never had the chance to demonstrate his governing abilities. "We have nothing to compare against," Machar said. "Garang didn't survive that long of a time in Khartoum. Only two weeks. You can't really say that one is better than the other." Kiir, who serves as vice president of the national government and president of the south, has taken a more conciliatory approach than many believe Garang would have. After taking charge, Kiir reached out to rival southern militias and incorporated them into the southern government, something Garang appeared unable or unwilling to do. Kiir's compromises with Khartoum have been less popular. After Garang's death, Bashir's National Congress Party insisted on retaining control of the coveted Oil Ministry, which was expected to go to the SPLM. Most of Sudan's oil reserves are in the south, but southerners only recently received their first installment of oil profit — about $800 million — under a 50-50 sharing provision in the peace deal. Kiir and others complain that they have been unable to review production and financial figures to confirm they are receiving their fair share. Other government ministries were stripped of key powers before being handed over to the SPLM, officials said, pointing out that control of the airports was removed from the Transportation Ministry. In recent weeks, Kiir has been intensifying the rhetoric against Khartoum. He said key elements of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement remained unresolved, including control of the key oil city of Abyei, final demarcation of the north-south border and distribution of oil profit. "Unless we make progress on these matters, I cannot see how the rest of the CPA can survive," Kiir said recently. Other southern Cabinet members were more blunt. "They are not dealing in good faith," said Samson Kwaje, information minister for the south. "They are buying time and hoping to sabotage it later." In a sign of the growing tension in the coalition government, Kiir publicly broke with Bashir recently over the president's opposition to deployment of United Nations troops in Darfur. SPLM leaders have also expressed skepticism over a peace deal reached in Darfur, saying it has only served to divide rebels in the west. But Kiir must be careful to assert the SPLM's position without cracking the fragile coalition government, his supporters say. Under the terms of the peace deal, the two sides agreed to work together until 2011, when southerners will get the chance to vote on secession. "We're locked into this relationship," Machar said. "We're trying to give it chance."

Juba is the regional capital of Southern Sudan

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:09:21 CDT

Juba is the regional capital of Southern Sudan and the capital of the Sudanese state of Central Equatoria. In 2005 its population was 163.442. Development of Population: Year Population 1973 (census) 56,737 1983 (census) 83,787 1993 (census) 114,980 2005 (calculation) 163,442 [edit] History British hopes to join the southern part of Sudan with Uganda were dashed in 1947 by an agreement in Juba, also known as the Juba Conference, to unify northern and southern Sudan. In 1955, a mutiny of southern soldiers in the city sparked the First Sudanese Civil War, which did not end until 1972. During the Second Sudanese Civil War, Juba was a strategic location that was the focus of much fighting. In 2005, Juba was handed over to the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. The city serves as the permanent regional capital of Southern Sudan, although the interim capital was Rumbek. [edit] Infrastructure The city is a river port and the southern terminus of traffic along the River Nile. It is also a transportation hub, with highways connecting it to Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Because of the war this 'transportation hub' isn't working anymore. Roads and harbour are not in use now. This is because of the civil war, which ended after 20 years in January 2005. Now the UN is repairing the roads, because during the war all the roads have been demolished, by bombs or by heavy rain. The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) has started in 2003 to clear the roads leading from Juba to Uganda and Kenya. It is expected that these roads can be completely demined and rebuilt in the course of 2006. The rebuilding of the roads (highway is a big word) takes a lot of work, because in the rainy season they can't work on them. From November till February is the dry season. They have started to rebuild the road to Uganda, because many of the original habitants of Juba fled to Uganda during the war. The roads are important for the peace process, people need them to return to their homes, to pick up 'daily life' again. Now in Juba there is only one paved road. This is a concrete road, build by the English in the fifties. The rebuilding of Juba is in full process now. The city is the location of the University of Juba. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Sudan Southern Sudan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Southern Sudan The SPLA/M's flag of the 'New Sudan' Flag of Southern Sudan Map of Southern Sudan Official languages English, Arabic Capital Juba President Cdr. Salva Kiir Mayardit Vice-President Dr. Riek Machar Area 597 000 km² Population – Total (2005) – Density perhaps 8,500,000 14/km² Currency Sudanese pound Time zone UTC+3 Southern Sudan is a region of Sudan. The Sudanese government agreed to give autonomy to the region in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on 9th January 2005 in Naivasha, Kenya with the SPLA/M, tentatively bringing an end to the Second Sudanese Civil War. Southern Sudan borders Ethiopia on the east, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, and the Central African Republic to the west. To the north lies the predominantly Arab and Muslim region directly under the control of the central government. The relationship between autonomous Southern Sudan and the neighbouring areas of Blue Nile State, Nuba Mountains/Southern Kurdufan, and Abyei has yet to be definitively determined, although for the time being these are effectively part of the North. Southern Sudan consists of the ten states, formerly composing the provinces of Equatoria (namely Central Equatoria, East Equatoria, and West Equatoria), Bahr el Ghazal (North Bahr al Ghazal, West Bahr al Ghazal, Lakes, and Warab), and Upper Nile (Junqali, Wahdah, and Upper Nile). Pending elections, seats in both the Southern Sudan Assembly and the Government of the Southern Sudan are to be divided in a fixed proportion between the SPLM (70%), the NCP (the former NIF) (15%), and "other Southern political forces" (15%). Before his death on 30 July 2005, longtime rebel leader John Garang was the President of Southern Sudan. Garang was succeeded by Salva Kiir Mayardit who was sworn in as first vice president of Sudan on 11 August 2005. The Southern region has a population of around 9 million and a predominantly rural, subsistence economy. This region has been negatively affected by the First and Second Sudanese Civil Wars for all but 10 years since independence in 1956, resulting in serious neglect, lack of infrastructure development, and major destruction and displacement. More than 2 million people have died, and more than 4 million are internally displaced or have become refugees as a result of the civil war and war-related impacts. The region has been struck by occasional famine. A 1998 famine killed hundreds of thousands, while a food emergency was declared in mid-2005. In recent years, a significant amount of foreign-based oil drilling has begun in Southern Sudan, raising the land's geopolitical profile abroad. The largest overseas consortium is controlled by; China, with a 40% stake, Malaysia, with 30%, and India, with 25%.[2] Canadian-based oil company Talisman withdrew operations in Sudan in 2003, due largely to external lobbying and pressure over political and human rights issues.

BBC News, Juba, southern Sudan

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:06:31 CDT

Southern Sudan's frontline town By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Juba, southern Sudan Juba is the largest and most developed town in southern Sudan, but remains a collection of mud huts and half-derelict buildings. The electricity supply is intermittent and hardly anyone has running water. Juba remained under government control throughout the 21-year civil war despite being surrounded on all sides by rebel forces. Tens of thousands of troops and countless tons of military hardware were flown in to reinforce this island of northern control from repeated rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) offensives. When under the terms of a peace agreement signed in January, government troops eventually withdraw, it will become the capital and seat of the new SPLM-controlled southern administration. In the meantime the much smaller Rumbek is serving as a temporary capital. Ethnic rivalries The transfer of power in Juba from the government to the SPLM will not be easy. The communities who live in Juba are not natural supporters of the ethnic Dinka-dominated former rebels. We are here for reconciliation and here for forgiveness James Wani Igga SPLM official During the civil war local militia armed by Khartoum fought against their fellow southerners. Juba's governor and leader of the pro-government Mandari militia Clement Wani, says that in clashes in the 1980s, rebels sexually abused women in his ethnic group and killed civilians. Against a backdrop of such bitterness the SPLM has set up an office on Juba high street. Its front, brightly painted with the flag of New Sudan, stands out among the pokey shops selling tinned food and soft drinks. A first moderately attended rally was held in Peace Square amid cries of "Down, Down Old Sudan" and "Welcome, Welcome New Sudan." Curfew Perhaps with ethnic sensitivities in mind, former Juba resident and SPLM secretary general James Wani Igga headed the first former rebel delegation. "After the fight you are reconciled and you become friends again," Mr Wani Igga said from the comfort of the government guesthouse. "We are here for reconciliation and here for forgiveness." Talks to prevent violence between rival factions, so called "South-South dialogue" are under way in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The arrival of the SPLM is the only visible sign Juba's residents have had that peace is here to stay. A midnight curfew is still in force and checkpoints restrict movement in and out of town. With little access to farm land or trade, Juba has had to rely on supplies flown in from Khartoum. Prices here are double that of the north and shops are full of tinned food not fresh produce. Shells For the long-suffering town, February 2005 brought a terrifying reminder of its recent past. A weapons depot exploded showering mortars across town and flattening the main market and killing 24 people. For many, the two-hour ordeal was worse than any wartime shelling. Two months on, unexploded ordnance and shells are still strewn around town. The corrugated iron marketplace is a twisted metal mess but business continues. Young men stand by piles of second hand clothes they have smuggled from Kenya by bicycle from the border town of Yei. In a steamy wooden bar, beers are proudly pulled out of a warm fridge. A bottle of Ugandan beer has halved in price since the peace deal - a sign perhaps that controls are being gradually eased. Refugees No one knows how many displaced people have returned home to settle in Juba since the peace agreement was signed. Conditions in the south are so bad that aid agencies are not helping people go back and no one is counting those who have returned on foot or by bicycle. "As there is nothing being given to the returnees, they've got no incentive to register or collect at any particular point," one aid worker said. Instead of targeting returnees for particular help, aid agencies are trying to improve conditions for all southerners. Some $4.5bn was pledged at an international donor conference to start building southern Sudan from scratch. The SPLM says their first priority with the money will be to open up and then improve the roads - allowing the millions of displaced southerners to return home and for trade to begin. With life expectancy of just 42 years and only one in four southerners capable of reading, hospitals and schools will also be high on the list. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/4461663.stm Published: 2005/04/20 07:17:20 GMT © BBC MMVI

Lives in limbo at Sudan camp

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:05:30 CDT

Lives in limbo at Sudan camp BY TINA SUSMAN Newsday Staff Writer May 21, 2006 JUBA, Sudan -- For three months, in the late stages of pregnancy, Debeza Yar walked on bare feet through southern Sudan, heading east from Western Equatoria province. Her destination was Bor, her hometown on the White Nile River, which civil war had emptied years earlier. But Juba, some 150 miles south of Bor, was as far as she got, and shortly after arriving, Yar gave birth on the sandy ground under a crudely built thatched-roof shelter. Then, Yar named her newborn girl Lologo, after the desolate, wind-blown camp that had become their home. If all had gone according to the plans carefully crafted by international organizations overseeing the return of displaced southerners to their homes, Yar would have given birth in Bor, and she no doubt would have named her baby something other than Lologo. But nothing goes according to plan in southern Sudan, a land reduced to a nearly medieval state by decades of neglect and warfare. In an area more than seven times the size of New York State, the United Nations estimates there are fewer than 10 miles of paved road. The few major unpaved arteries are in serious disrepair and many, including the one from Juba to Bor, are pocked with land mines. So the UN organized a river barge to ship 400 people at a time to Bor, a two-day trip. It was a slow but promising start to the post-war migration of more than 4 million Sudanese scattered across the country and the continent as a result of Sudan's 21-year north-south war, which ended in January 2005. But after just two barge trips had carried about 800 people home, people in Juba and Lologo began falling ill. They vomited and suffered severe diarrhea. Some died. Medical officials declared a cholera outbreak and, in mid-February, barge trips were suspended to avoid spreading the disease. Anywhere else, this might have been a minor setback. Here, it was a reminder of what lies ahead as southern Sudan begins the staggering task of building itself into a viable nation. It's a mission that cannot succeed unless people like Yar restore their abandoned towns to life, but it is easily derailed by everything from rain, which turns the region's dirt roads into impassable sludge, to land mines. For most people at Lologo - members of the cattle-raising Dinka tribe indigenous to Bor - the return would mark the end of years on the run dating back to 1992, when the war drove them out. Most took their prized, long-horned cattle and fled southwest, to Western Equatoria state. After the north-south peace accord was signed, they began hiking back to Bor. Those not strong enough to make the entire walk - many children, the elderly and pregnant women - ended up at Lologo, waiting for the boat. "It was very far indeed," said Gabriel Ayuen Deng, Lologo's camp leader, describing the 180-mile walk. "When you have shoes like me, you're OK," he added, looking at his tan sneakers. "But the rest were having problems." The barge finally was cleared to resume traveling last month, none too soon for Lologo's 4,000 residents. Their impatience to move on had become obvious, even if it was to go somewhere they barely remembered. "We remember the name. We remember the goodness," Deng said, when asked his most vivid memories of Bor. Even as Lologo was emptying, thousands more Bor-bound people were at other way stations in the region, and it appeared they would face far longer delays. Once the rains came this month, attempts to move them bogged down, explained Louis Hoffmann of the International Organization for Migration, a UN agency. Worse, he said, the downpours had raised fears of more water-borne diseases, such as cholera. "Sanitation is so bad and the rains are coming, so the suspicion is it could creep up again," Hoffmann said.

Southern Sudan: Refugees and Returnees

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:45:59 CDT

Southern Sudan: Refugees and Returnees By Cole Mallard Washington, DC 20 July 2006 listen to the interview with David Gressly audio clip In our feature series this week, we’ve been looking at the situation in southern Sudan since the peace accord was signed last year. After our overview on Monday, we looked at making a living in Sudan and at health care. Tonight, we find out about those displaced by the war – refugees and internally displaced persons – and how both groups are doing. David Gressly is the UNHCR’s humanitarian coordinator for Sudan. From Juba, he told VOA English to Africa reporter Cole Mallard the UNHCR hopes to return some 400,000 refugees to Sudan over the next two years, and that of the four million internally displaced, so far only a little over a million have voluntarily returned home to the south. He says it’s been more difficult to facilitate refugees than the internally displaced because of the lack of security in southern Sudan along the northern border with Uganda, mainly because of the Lord’s Resistance Army. He adds that the UNHCR “had hoped to repatriate more than 60,000 people this year from refugee camps in Central African Republic, Congo and Uganda, but because of insecurity could only return 10,000.” Gressly says the UNHCR has “been working to assist key groups we consider to be vulnerable, particularly those living in South Darfur coming back to the Balegazal area, in addition to groups in the south that are trying to get back home from areas in Equatoria, so we’ve assisted about 20,000 such people to come back.” He says the main type of aid supplied is food, adding the World Food Program has pre-positioned more than 34,000 metric tons of food for people returning this season. Gressly says UNICEF supplies water and educational support, the WHO provides health services, and local NGOs coordinate delivery. The UNHCR representative says they try to accommodate all who need food, but the refugees maintain priority. He says that during the war more than 80% of the food aid was flown in, which was extraordinarily expensive. But this year; because of the WFP’s road construction efforts, more than 80% of the food is being delivered by land. Gressly says, “The roads have been a boon for the local economy, opening up the south for the first time in 20 years, providing access for commodities to come into the country, lowering prices, and allowing freedom of movement for the first time in 20 years. It’s really an extraordinary accomplishment!” Let us know what you think of this report and other stories on our website. Send your views to AFRICA@VOANEWS.COM, and include your phone number. Or, call us here in Washington, DC at (202) 205-9942. After you hear the VOA identification, press 30 to leave a message. We want to hear what you have to say!

Safaris - Everett Aviation - Queen Elizabeth National Park

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:31:47 CDT

Everett Aviation - Tours & Safaris _____UGANDA: Queen Elizabeth National Park_____ Queen Elizabeth National Park has the massive Ruwenzori Mountains and herds of Zebra and Giraffe on the shores of Lake Albert. Large groups can charter the helicopter to meet them at the parks and then provide safaris for groups of four passengers at a time. Whatever your requirements we will help you find an option that suits you. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ KENYA Sightseeing Sightseeing charters for can be easily arranged with Everett Aviation. If you are coming on holiday and would like to add a special treat to your trip just telephone or email and tell us what you would like to see and we will help you tailor a charter to suit your requirements and budget. Common requests include scenic flights over the Great Rift Valley, around the peaks of Mount Kenya, Lake Turkana, and other beautiful sights. UGANDA ‘Hairy Lemon on the Nile’ day trip Despite the quirky name, Hairy Lemon is an idyllic island on the Nile River. This trip starts from our base in Kampala where we will fly you past aerial views of Kampala city to the shores of Lake Victoria, following the coast of the lake to the Source of the Nile at Jinja, some 50 km away. There, we turn north and follow the Nile, flying over some spectacular rapids and giving you a unique view of this mighty river. When we reach Hairy Lemon Island, we will land and stop for lunch with your hosts, Erin and Rob. The Island is both beautiful and peaceful. You can spend some time relaxing in a shady grove, with a swim in an area naturally protected from the swift current of the river, or fishing quietly off the little dock or simply observing the wonderful birdlife that is abundant here. When everyone is well rested, we take off again and head home to Kampala over the vast tea plantations and forest of the area. A little bit of everything packed into a restful day. You can charter a helicopter from Everett Aviation to take you on an aerial safari you will never forget. There are several areas in Uganda where these are a perfect way to see the landscape. Murchison Falls National Park boasts a spectacular waterfall as well as elephant and lion.

Need for Presidential Envoy to Sudan - News from Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:27:33 CDT

Need for Presidential Envoy to Sudan United States Congress (Washington, DC) DOCUMENT July 21, 2006 By Office of Senator Mike DeWine, Washington, DC The Following are the prepared remarks by U.S. Senator Mike DeWine to President Bush regarding the need for a presidential envoy to Sudan. Mr. President, I wish to discuss a critical issue that I have addressed in this chamber numerous times in the last several years and that is the situation in Darfur. It is truly a shame that in July of 2006, the horrendous conditions and continued violence look very similar to that which first caught our attention in 2003. Despite the recent peace agreement that was reached in early May between the Government of National Unity and one faction of the largest rebel group, the violence on the ground has continued unabated. This has led to a tenuous humanitarian situation. According to the United Nations Children's Fund Darfur Nutrition Update for June 2006, malnutrition rates and admissions to therapeutic feeding centers are rising across Darfur . Under difficult conditions, our government has done a tremendous job in providing assistance to the people of Darfur, including contributing over 80 percent of the food delivered in Darfur by the World Food Program. Unfortunately, our government's efforts are not enough. Other donors must increase their contributions and fulfill the pledges they made. To make these matters worse, the government of Sudan blatantly refuses a UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur leaving the African Union to try and enforce peace, which it has been unable to do thus far. For these reasons, I am encouraging President Bush to appoint a Presidential Envoy for Sudan as soon as possible. The FY06 Emergency Supplemental includes a provision offered by Senator Biden and myself to create a Presidential Special Envoy and an office in the State Department to support it. This envoy is charged with working to resolve the conflict in Darfur, facilitating implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south Sudan , and resolving other internal and regional conflicts. The timing of this appointment could not be more critical. Deputy Secretary of State Bob Zoellick is departing and other key Administration officials that have been working on Sudan are rotating to new positions. I want to personally thank Secretary Zoellick for his commitment to peace in Sudan . His tireless efforts were at the forefront of this Administration's clear commitment to this troubled country. I urge the President to appoint a trusted leader that is committed to bringing about peace in Sudan once and for all. The thought of making similar statements about Darfur in 2009 is unacceptable. Copyright © 2006 United States Congress. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).

Everett Aviation - ISO9001:2000 Safety and Quality

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:31:16 CDT

Everett Aviation http://www.everettaviation.com/iso.html ISO9001:2000 Safety and Quality November 2005 marked the successful completion of nine months of intensive work on Everett Aviation quality systems that resulted in accreditation by Bureau Veritas of our company to the ISO9001:2000 standard. The process of quality and the resulting improvements in all our services and safety levels is an achievement of which the whole company is extremely proud. We are the only aviation company in the region so certified, and as a result, our customers can be assured of the highest standards of safety both in our flight operations and engineering activities. Safety is the primary focus of this company, and we hold our selves to the highest standards in all aspects of our operation. Our pilots are trained to the best levels and must demonstrate their competency at regular intervals. Our engineers are all factory trained and equipped with all the tools, manuals and documentation to ensure they can maintain your helicopter to the highest standard. Every member of the company has attended and passed the ISO 9001:2000 training course. Everett Aviation http://www.everettaviation.com/iso.html ISO9001:2000 Safety and Quality

US opens new consulate in Juba, Sudan - News From Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:26:34 CDT

Juba, Sudan Contacts opsroomsudan @ unityresourcesgroup.com Juba Weather: http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/62941.html http://usinfo.state.gov/af/Archive/2005/Nov/16-169475.html U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick (l) meets with Sudan's Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit in Juba, Sudan (© AP/WWP) iscussions with Zoellick centered on finding a solution to the Darfur crisis, as well as the implementation of the CPA, which he described as "taking a low profile in the international community because they [the international community] feel that the pressing issue today is the issue of Darfur, and so attention is much more drawn to Darfur." Zoellick agreed that there has been "a lot of focus on Darfur, understandably," but said it would be "a huge mistake" if the involved parties let their attention turn from the critical matter of "working with the government of Southern Sudan and then the government of national unity in the peace process." ...... US opens new consulate in Juba, Sudan Sudan-USA, Politics, 11/17/2005 The new US consulate in Juba, Sudan, is an important milestone on the way to peace for that country, US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said November 11 at a press conference following its opening. The consulate will be the headquarters for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) mission. Sudanese First Vice President Salva Kiir, joining Zoellick at the press conference, said he considered the opening "a very big step forward" in "assuring the cooperation and support of the USA to the peace process in Sudan and to the road map of Southern Sudan in particular." ... to keep them informed about how the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is progressing. Juba is the seat of the recently appointed government of Southern Sudan. ..." government of national unity in the peace process." ... "so people start to see the benefits of peace." "We're trying to work on health care systems, trying to help build schools and also work with the teachers on the training system, trying to help with the telecommunication system. There's a lot to be done, .... .... fixing the railroad system. "So one way to start would be to allow parts for the railroad system," ... http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051117/2005111732.html

Everett Aviation: Heavy Load and External Load Services

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:39:27 CDT

Everett Aviation - External Load Everett Aviation helicopters can lift/carry external loads of between 900kgs and 1,100kgs and our pilots can position these loads with precision. For example, positioning the heavy motors for lift installations into tall buildings becomes a simple task, especially in a confined area where getting a crane close enough is difficult. Whatever the load, we will be happy to discuss options to efficiently complete the task to your satisfaction. Please call our Chief Pilot for further information. Everett Aviation has positioned a 5 tonne drilling rig onto an island in the White Nile near Jinja by dismantling it using the helicopter as a crane, lifting it in smaller parts and re-assembling it with the helicopter on the island. Everett Aviation has done a similar task on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. We make regular lifts for Uganda Telecom in Uganda to remote sites. In 1999, we recovered a disabled AS350 helicopter from the sea off the Kenya coast near Lamu.

Helicopter History - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:37:56 CDT

http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html The earliest attempts at helicopter design can be traced back to the days of Leonardo da Vinci in 1486, although some people attribute it to the Chinese Flying Top designed by Ko Hung around 320 AD. Davinci's notes and drawings of the 'Helical Screw' appear on the right. He had the idea that a large helical screw would literally pull his flying machine into the air as it turned. Although we now know that his design would not work, except perhaps under water (hardly the right place for a flying machine !), his perception that vertical flight was a possibility was, as always, very correct and way ahead of his time. Between the mid 1700's until the early 1900's, quite a large number of designs and proposals were put forward for helicopters. The majority of these designs and proposals, some of which were very grandiose, never progressed beyond the initial concept. Additionally, because of the lack of an engine with a suitable power to weight ratio, all helicopters built up till 1907 were essentially toys, or large models which were not capable of lifting more than their own weight. Power was derived from a number of sources such as electric motors, clock-springs and elastic bands. In some cases, the rotors were turned by 'steam-jets' at the end of each rotor blade. The first successful steam-driven model was built by an Englishman named Phillips in 1842; the model managed an uncontrolled flight across two fields. Click to see larger imageLeft, a drawing from 1809 by Sir George Cayley, sometimes referred to as "The Father of British Aeronautics". The design is based on an original concept drawn up by Launoy and Bienvenu in France in 1784. Launoy and Bienvenu based their idea on the Chinese Flying Top, using four feathers for each rotor at either end of a short stick. The device was rotated by means of a bow string. Several 'designers' tried variations on this theme, but the machines did not progress beyond the toy stage. An Italian, Enrico Folanini, is credited with building the first shaft-driven steam-powered helicopter to fly. The model weighed only 8 pounds, weight being saved by boiling water in a cylinder before attaching it to the helicopter and opening the 'throttle'. Those of you familiar with Newton's Laws of Motion will recall that "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". For helicopters this law manifests itself by the desire for the body of the helicopter to rotate in the opposite direction to the rotors. This is because the rotors are turned by the engine which is fixed to the body of the machine. Most of the early designs therefore incorporated two rotors turning in opposite directions to counteract this effect. The rotors were either mounted on separate outriggers or co-axially (on the same drive shaft). The first designer to make use of a separate tail rotor to counteract the turning effect (torque reaction) was a German named B.R.Beenan who, in 1897, built a model which also incorporated variable pitch control of the main and tail rotor blades as well as a method of tilting the rotor. Although Lift can be controlled by varying the Rpm of the rotor, this method is not very efficient as the inertia of the rotor system means that the Rpm is slow to react to changes in throttle setting. By maintaining the rotor Rpm and varying the angle of attack of the rotor blades (changing the pitch) more positive control of Lift can be achieved. (Note: If you want to find out more about the Theory of Helicopter Flight click here.) Click to see larger imageBetween 1909-10, Igor Sikorsky built two machines, one of which was powered by a 24 hp Anzani engine. Neither machine was capable of lifting more than the weight of the entire machine off the ground and, for the next 30 years, Sikorsky gave up his initial attempts at vertical flight to concentrate on designing fixed-wing aircraft. However, he was sure that the concept was feasible but knew that technology had a long way to go before any further advances could be made. Apart from the lack of a suitable engine, powerful, and light enough to enable the helicopter to lift more than its own weight, the principle problem which all the early pioneers encountered was of controlling the helicopter. Helicopters did not really progress until the arrival of a certain Senor Juan de la Cierva who experimented with Autogyro's. His designs made use of freely Click to see larger imagerotating rotor systems with independently articulated rotor blades. Although Cierva is generally credited with inventing the articulated rotor system, it was originally conceived by a Frenchman named Renard in 1904. Click to see larger image The overall weight of Cierva's autogiro's was much less than that of a helicopter because there was no need for a large engine and drive system to turn the rotor(s); this also meant that it was not necessary to fit dual rotors or a tail rotor to counteract the torque reaction. The best known of Cierva's designs was the C-30, pictured right, of which several hundred examples were built in the 1930's. One of his earlier models, the Cierva No4, is pictured left. In 1928, using one of his C-30 Autogiro's, Cierva became the first rotary-wing pilot to cross the English Channel. Focke-Achgelis designed an autogiro for use as an aerial spotting device in the Second World War. The Fa 330 was a small autogiro which could be stored on board German U-boats. When it was required for service, the blades were re-attached and the autogiro was towed behind the U-boat. The pilot was able to communicate with the U-boat by means of a telephone line running along-side the towing wire. One unfortunate problem with this method of aerial spotting was that it also enabled the enemy to sight the U-boats more readily. The effect of this was that sometimes the U-boat had to crash-dive, cutting the Autogiro adrift in the process, leaving the poor pilot to drown in the conventional manner. http://www.flying-bike.demon.co.uk/helistuff/heli.html

International Radio Alphabet - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:35:13 CDT

ITU Recommended Phonetics, or the ITU Standard Phonetics http://www.helis.com/howflies/alphabet.php A lpha B ravo C harlie D elta E cho F oxtrot G olf H otel I ndia J uliet K ilo L ima M ike N ovember O scar P apa Q uebec R omeo S ierra T ango U niform V ictor W hisky X ray Y ankee Z ulu

Everett Aviation: Everett Fleet Services

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:31:43 CDT

Helicopters are extremely flexible and useful aircraft. The different charter possibilities are almost endless. Below is a list of Everett Aviation main services, although Everett Aviation is constantly finding new areas in which to operate. If you do not find your ideal charter in the list, just call to discuss your ideas in detail with our operations staff. We will endeavor to meet any challenge. * Medivac Everett Aviation has ten years experience in performing medical rescues in Kenya and throughout the region. The flexibility of the helicopter lends itself perfectly to this undertaking. We can land at the scene of an accident and transport casualties directly to hospital, thus providing a fast and efficient service that saves lives. We work closely with Amref Flying Doctors (link) in Kenya and International Hospital Kampala (link) in Uganda. * V.I.P. Services Our discreet and professional service is without peer as are our customers. Why waste your valuable time? For a safe and secure transit day or night, call our office to arrange a flight at your convenience to any destination of your choice. * Filming Our experience in filming charters is unmatched in the region. We have helped bring to the screen such movies as “The Constant Gardener, “Tomb Raider”, and “Survivor Africa” among others. Our fleet can support any kind of filming enterprise, from major motion picture productions to budget projects. Simply call our staff to discuss your requirements. * Search and Rescue Search and Rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited. Everett Aviation‘s aircraft are fitted with state of the art technical equipment such as Night Vision capability, FLIR (forward looking infra-red) and Night Sun. All our pilots are experienced in the use of this equipment which greatly increases the effectiveness of our SAR operations. In addition, this equipment allows us to operate safely and effectively in adverse conditions where other means would fail. * External Load * Tours , Safaris and Scenic Flights * Flight Training We offer PPL training using our Enstrom 280C and have both an “ab-initio” syllabus for new pilots (55 hours) and an accelerated “add-on” course for holders of fixed wing licenses (35 hours). Both are approved by KCAA. Everett Aviation has the only helicopter pilot training school in East Africa. * Weddings Everett Aviation has a long history of providing couples with spectacular wedding charters that fulfill their dreams. Each charter is specially tailored to each client, providing them with exactly the service they want. Everyone will be amazed at the happy couple beginning their life together, chauffeured to their destination in their own private helicopter. What better start to a happy marriage?

Farnborough Eurocopter News - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:29:44 CDT

Farnborough Air Show 2006 Eurocopter News - Sponsored by Everett Aviation http://www.eurocopter.com/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_accueil.php?lang=EN# Citic Offshore Helicopter Co. Ltd. (COHC) and Eurocopter announce the signing of a contract for the supply of two EC225 helicopters at the Farnborough International Airshow. COHC is the largest offshore helicopter operator in Asia. The EC225, which is the most advanced version in this twin-engine, medium-weight helicopter family, has an initial takeoff weight of 11,000 kg - or 11,200 kg with a sling load. The helicopter is designed for passenger transport, especially in the offshore and VIP sectors, and for search and rescue operations in the public domain. These aircraft will be delivered at the end of 2007, and will be the first EC225s to be equipped with auxiliary pod tanks offering a radius of action greater than 250 NM for public passenger transport missions (including the regulatory fuel reserves) while maintaining the 19-passenger nominal capacity. As the first EC225s in offshore configuration to be introduced in China, these aircraft will strengthen the COHC fleet - which already includes 10 AS 332 L1 Super Pumas, five EC 155 B and B1s, and five AS 365 Dauphins – and will consolidate the company’s position as the leader on the Chinese oil & gas market. The EC225 features a new 5-bladed, Spheriflex-design main rotor, a reinforced main gearbox, new engines, and an innovative integrated piloting and display system. These new proven technologies have improved performances (speed, maneuverability), comfort (vibration, noise) and flight safety – qualities that are particularly appreciated by all the crews and passengers who have already flown on the helicopter. This first order for the EC225 from COHC confirms Eurocopter’s supremacy on the heavy helicopter market in China, in the 10 metric ton class. "This year, we have received two major orders for the EC225 Super Puma in China: one from the Chinese Ministry of Transport, to cover its sea rescue requirements, and the other from the biggest Chinese offshore operator," comments Mr. Norbert Ducrot, the Eurocopter Asia-Pacific Senior Vice President. About Eurocopter Established in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group is a Division of EADS, a world leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Eurocopter Group employs approx. 13,000 people. In 2005, Eurocopter confirmed its position as the world’s No. 1 helicopter manufacturer with a turnover of 3.2 billion euros, orders for 401 new helicopters, and a 52 percent market share in the civil and parapublic sectors. Overall, the Group’s products account for 30 percent of the total world helicopter fleet. Its strong worldwide presence is ensured by its 16 subsidiaries on five continents, along with a dense network of distributors, certified agents and maintenance centres. More than 9,500 Eurocopter helicopters are currently in service with over 2,500 customers in 139 countries. Eurocopter offers the largest civil and military helicopter range in the world. For more information, please contact: Jean Louis ESPES : Tel : + 33 (0)4 42 85 95 55 Mob :+ 33 (0)6 07 08 44 07 jean-louis.espes@eurocopter.com Christina GOTZHEIN Tel : + 49 (0) 89 6000 64 88 Mob :+ 49 151 1422 9243 christina.gotzhein@eurocopter.com Cécile VION-LANCTUIT Tel : + 33 (0)1 49 34 45 04 Mob :+ 33 (0)6 72 83 90 67 cecile.vion-lanctuit@eurocopter.com Christopher BACH Tel : +49 (0) 90 671 45 65 Mob :+49 151 1422 9089 christopher.bach@eurocopter.com http://www.eurocopter.com/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_accueil.php?lang=EN#

Everett Aviation - A Chelton Flight Systems Dealer

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:17:01 CDT

Everett Aviation - A Chelton Flight Systems Dealer http://www.cheltonflightsystems.com/HeliSAS.html The HeliSAS Digital Autopilot employs an all-digital design that supports all conventional autopilot modes, as well as Chelton’s unique Highway-In-The-Sky roll and pitch steering (when optionally coupled to Chelton’s Synthetic Vision EFIS). Designed from the ground up for helicopters, the Chelton HeliSAS is a full-authority system based on a dual-processor, fail-passive architecture that can be fitted to any hydraulic-control helicopter. The HeliSAS dramatically reduces pilot workload for cross country or demanding special mission applications. The HeliSAS system overcomes the two major barriers to autopilot use in helicopters: weight and price. The HeliSAS weighs less than twelve pounds and is projected at half the price of conventional helicopter autopilots. The HeliSAS is the result of a NASA research program lead by flight control expert and helicopter test pilot Roger Hoh. The innovative design is a direct outgrowth of research conducted for the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate using NASA simulators and the Canadian National Research Council variable stability Bell 205 helicopter. http://www.cheltonflightsystems.com/HeliSAS.html

Stanford Daily in Uganda - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:12:20 CDT

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/7/13/lifeWithoutTheBasics http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/7/13/lifeWithoutTheBasics Life without the basics Bathing, electricity, trash pick-up and transportation are necessities Stanford students take for granted. Michael Wilkerson writes home about the challenges of living in a developing country July 13, 2006 By Michael Wilkerson Kampala, Uganda — Suddenly the Draw no longer seems so unfair. Admittedly I lucked out with 100 and Xanadu, but even those relegated to four-class dorms and one room doubles are better off than I originally thought. The worst dorm at Stanford (no names will be named) is quite appealing at the moment. Jokes are often made about the fact that Stanford has more money than some small countries, but I am experiencing it first hand, and it no longer seems quite as comical. The longer I stay here, the more “the farm” starts to resemble a resort in its luxury. Here in Kampala, thanks to years of corruption and incompetent administration, the government is dependent on foreign aid for nearly half of its budget. The population has grown much faster than development, and basic services are minimal. Electricity is intermittent at best, and with the exception of the diplomats and very wealthy who can afford to run generators constantly, most people are forced to deal with a system called load-shedding. Keeping in mind that the majority of the population is not even hooked up to the grid; the way load-shedding works is that it deals with the constant overdraw on the available energy by arbitrarily scheduling some areas to have power at certain hours on certain days. At my house, which is in a suburb that is by no means well off, we are scheduled to have power every other day, from about 3:00 PM to midnight but regularity is nonexistent. Even in the rare week where the electricity arrives at the time it is supposed to, the fact that it has just been off for at least 24 hours means hot water is a rarity, and one that I have yet to even see. Bathing is quite a process in itself, because, at least where I live, the pressure is so low that it cannot quite make it all the way out of the shower nozzle at much more than a slow drip. The best thing to do when trying to get wet, I have discovered, is to crouch as low as possible and try to get underneath the tap where the flow is slightly faster. Keep in mind that I am staying in the metropolitan capital of the country, and my house is far above the average even for the city. Sitting here and salivating about first-world amenities, the services Stanford provides seem pretty incredible. Consider the fact that very few students spend any time picking up trash. It just disappears almost magically. While there are a number of environmentally conscious students who go out of the way to put litter in trashcans, the truth is that the University employs people to pick up after us. Every weekend, an untold multitude of red cups are used and discarded across campus, but somehow they all seem to be gone by Monday. In Kampala the main trash disposal system is fire. The air is thick with the smell of smoke at all hours of the day, and if you go to the right places, you can witness giant burning piles. Sanitation is improving; most places no longer have open sewers. But that’s not exactly a cause for comfort. The logistics of the Marguerite shuttle system are also more impressive than they used to be. Public transportation that operates on a schedule with regular stops is something that would be a major improvement in Uganda. There is cheap public transportation, but it exists in the form of “taxis” which are 14-person minibuses that regularly pack 25 people inside at a time. All painted alike, they all start from a taxi park in the middle of town, and go outward, leaving when they are full. When they reach an end destination, which for some is the outside of town, and others distant villages, they load up and turn around to go the other way. The only way to tell where any particular vehicle is going is to try and listen to the driver’s assistant who leans out the window and shouts the route his car is taking to everyone he passes. Along with numerous and erratic taxis, transportation is also hindered by a complete lack of signs or traffic signals save a few roundabouts, and it is amazing in my mind that I have yet to witness an accident. The roads are very rough: many areas have holes that look like artillery hit though it is really just heavy wear. My favorite part though, is the seemingly ubiquitous number of small scooters and motorcycles whose drivers carry passengers for a price slightly higher than the “taxis.” Called boda boda, they are preferable to people like me because even though they are slightly dangerous they can skirt the traffic jams and take you directly from one place to another. In spite of all of this complaining, I really love Uganda. The people here are the most friendly I have ever encountered, and are always willing to help me, the mzungu (stupid white foreigner) figure things out. In fact, adjusting to the living situation here has not been that hard. The only serious difficulties I have really had were in working with a quite patronizing member of the U.S. Embassy who decided an American college student was really not worth their time of day. I do not mean to denigrate the country; things have come a long way over the last 20 years and will improve further. But living away from home has made me think harder about what I really enjoy in the U.S., and at Stanford in particular. While at school, the nonstop assurances about how lucky we are often blend together into a drone or can be forgotten in the rush of classes and activities. To go over just a few of the administration’s talking points, we are constantly encouraged to appreciate the diverse range of programs, prestigious faculty, research opportunities, financial aid, advanced technology and athletic facilities the University provides. That stuff is great; I’m sure we’re a world-class institution and so on, but at this point I’m looking forward to getting back to hot water and bright uninterrupted light. Following my summer, my arrival at the farm before school starts will be the real vacation. After all, we are the happiest students for a reason, even if there is quite a price tag. Michael Wilkerson (Class of ‘09) is spending the summer working for the Daily Monitor in Kampala, Uganda. Tell him your Africa travel stories at mwilkers@stanford.edu. http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/7/13/lifeWithoutTheBasics http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/7/13/lifeWithoutTheBasics

Helicopter History - Sponsored by Everett Aviation

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:10:17 CDT

http://members.lycos.co.uk/Indochine/cefeo/helicopt.html The use of helicopters in Indochina in some ways paralleled the conflict in Korea. Nicknamed "ventilators" by the troops they supported, the Hiller 360s and H-23 Ravens, Westland-Sikorsky WS-51s and Sikorsky H-19s were used mainly for casualty evacuation and occasionally to rescue escaped prisoners or aircrews shot down over Viet Minh territory. None had a combat role although, by the final year, there were plans to enlarge the helicopter fleet for such use. The first two helicopters, Hiller 360 UH-12As bought by the Medical Services, arrived in April 1950 and were assigned to E.L.A. 52 (Air Liaison Flight 52) to supplement the Criquets (French-built Fieseler Storch light planes) used until then. They were used exclusively for CASEVAC missions in southern Annam, Cochinchina and Cambodia. On 16 May, the first evacuation mission was flown by Lieutenant Santini, who had became the first French military helicopter pilot in November 1949. Although he boasted only 28 flying hours in helicopters, he flew two casualties of the 1er BCCP to Saigon in a two-hour flight, one hour of which was in darkness. He was the only helicopter pilot in the whole of Indochina until he was joined by Sergeant Fumat in August 1950. UH-12A Among the first handful of pilots, a woman, Captain Valérie André would rapidly become famous. An Army surgeon and qualified parachutist and pilot who had arrived in Indochina in June 1949, she evacuated 165 in 129 helicopter missions flown in 1952-1953 (out of a total of 496 fixed-wing and helicopter missions during her tours) and would later command a casualty evacuation flight. One typical mission occurred on 11 December 1951 when casualties were in urgent need of evacuation from Tu Vu on the Black River. The only available helicopter, stationed near Saigon, was dismantled, flown to Hanoi by a Bristol Freighter and reassembled. Captain André then flew into Tu Vu despite heavy mist and anti-aircraft fire. There, she triaged the casualties, operated on the most pressing cases and then flew the urgent wounded back to Hanoi, two at a time. In 1976, she became the first woman in the French Army to rise to the rank of general. The photo to the right shows her Hiller UH-12A about to land to evacuate casualties from Operation "Crachin" in February 1952. In late 1951, both helicopters were transferred to E.L.A. 53 in Gia Lam, near Hanoi, while seven of the more powerful H-23As arrived, starting in February 1952. This finally allowed the whole of Indochina to be covered and the helicopter fleet was reorganised into three mixed airplane-helicopter flights : E.L.A. 52 in Tan Son Nhut, E.L.A. 53 in Gia Lam and E.L.A. 54 in Tourane (Da Nang). In March 1952, six H-23Bs with uprated engines were added to the helicopter fleet. Between June and December 1952, eleven WS-51s were bought but while they were appreciated for their ability to lift three casualties simultaneously, they proved unsuited to local conditions and were replaced from October 1953 by the much more powerful Sikorsky H-19. The arrival of eighteen of these helicopters, nicknamed "happy elephants", was a major improvement in capability since the H-19 could carry six wounded and a medical attendant over more than 500 kilometres. At about the same time, the helicopters were transferred from the Armée de l'Air to the Army which formed the first all-helicopter unit in December 1953 : the Groupement des Formations d'Hélicoptères en Indochine (G.F.H.I. - Indochina Helicopter Units Group), itself made up of the 1re and 2e Compagnie d'Hélicoptères d'Evacuations Sanitaires (C.H.E.S. - Medical Evacuation Helicopter Company). An H-19 named Billy In 1954 alone, helicopters evacuated 6,499 CEFEO wounded from the various battlefields, some flights taking place in darkness. In the early days of Dien Bien Phu, however, three H-19s were destroyed on the ground by Viet Minh 105mm artillery and one was shot down by AA fire despite the red crosses painted boldly on their fuselage sides (1). As a result, all helicopter flights to the besieged base were suspended in late March. Although the 44 helicopters (2) played no part in actual combat, eleven were lost to enemy action. Despite the technical limits of the early models, the value of these "ventilators" was quickly appreciated. The small number of helicopters evacuated "only" 10,820 CEFEO casualties in 1951-1954 (roughly 1/7th of the total number of evacuations) but it is doubtful that these men could have been saved by any other means. The potential use of helicopters in combat was not overlooked however and the reinforcements planned for the 1954-1955 campaign included 50 H-19s. On 22 November 1954, the Army formed its own light aviation branch, the Aviation Légère de l'Armée de Terre (ALAT) to operate its own aircraft and helicopters. The veterans of Indochina would form the nucleus of a greatly expanded helicopter force which, over the next eight years, would make the Algerian War the first helicopter war. Appendix : Helicopters models used in Indochina * Hiller UH-12A (360) / H-23B Raven Carrying capacity : one pilot and two litter cases Engine : (UH-12A) one 170-hp Franklin 6V4-B33 flat six ; (H-23A) one 178-hp Franklin O-335-4 flat six ; (H-23B) one 200-hp Franklin O-335-6 flat six Dimensions : length of fuselage 8.46 m ; height 2.98 m ; diameter of two-blade rotor 10.67 m Weights (H-23B) : 730 kg (empty), 1025 kg (maximum loaded) Speed (H-23B) : 135 km/h (maximum), 110 km/h (cruising) Range (H-23B) : 330 km (without reserves) ; max flight time 2 h 30 mn Number in service : two UH-12As, seven H-23As, six H-23Bs * Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Dragonfly Carrying capacity : two pilots and two litter cases Engine : one 500-hp Alvis Leonides 521/1 nine cylinder radial Dimensions : length of fuselage 12.47 m ; height 3.94 m ; diameter of three-blade rotor 14.6 m Weights : 1724 kg (typical), 2495 kg (maximum loaded) Speed : 166 km/h (maximum), 132 km/h (cruising) Range : 482 km (typical) Number in service : eleven * Sikorsky H-19A Chickasaw Carrying capacity : two pilots, six litter cases Engine : one 600-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340-40 Wasp nine cylinder radial Dimensions : length of fuselage 12.71 m ; width 3.35 m ; height 4.06 m ; diameter of three-blade rotor 16.15 m Weights : 2245 kg (empty), 3300 kg (maximum loaded) Speed : 175 km/h (maximum), 135 km/h (cruising) Range : 563 km (without reserves) ; max flight time 4 h 30 mn Number in service : eighteen (not all operational) Note 1 : In all fairness, it should be mentioned that, in addition to their more publicised role, these helicopters were also used to carry a few replacement officers into the base and evacuate perfectly healthy fighter pilots which had been stranded by the Viet Minh's attack and were sorely needed by their unit. [ back ] Note 2 : In addition to these, four helicopters (two Sikorsky S-51s and two Piasecky HUP-2) were operated by the the Aéronavale for carrier-based rescue. [ back ] Sources : * Helicopters in Combat - The First Fifty Years, John Everett-Heath, London : Arms and Armour Press, 1992 (ISBN 185409-066-8) * L'Aviation Française en Indochine, 1946-1954, Jean-Claude Soumille, Association Air Doc, 1996 (no ISBN) * La guerre d'Indochine, Philippe Héduy, Paris : Société de Production Litéraire, 1981 (no ISBN) FROM: http://members.lycos.co.uk/Indochine/cefeo/helicopt.html

East African countries to adopt uniform aviation standards

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:10:34 CDT

UPDATED: 16:57, September 07, 2005 East African countries to adopt uniform aviation standards font size ZoomIn ZoomOut East African countries, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are finalizing a set of regulations that will lead to the adoption of uniform aviation standards, a Uganda government official has said. The Minister of State for Works, Francis Babu was quoted by local press on Wednesday as saying that the air traffic and air navigation regulations would lead to the creation of the East African Community (EAC) Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Organization. "It is the spirit of collaboration that will ensure the future and efficiency of regional civil aviation," Babu was quoted as saying. Babu who was opening a Uganda Civil Aviation Regulations Stakeholders' workshop that brought together delegates from Kenya,Tanzania, Uganda and the US Federal Administration said that air transport played a pivotal role in the development process of any country, more so for a landlocked country like Uganda. "It is incumbent upon you, the experts in the air transport industry in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to ensure that the industry is safe, efficient and affordable for people to use," Babu said. He said that commerce, trade and tourism were dependent on an efficient transport system. The Secretary General of the EAC, Amanya Mushega was also quoted by local press as saying that when the regulations are promulgated, they would facilitate the operationalization of regional air institutions. "The regulations will elevate the region to an elite set of regional organizations to effectively address deficiencies in air transport oversight and surveillance," Mushega added. Source: Xinhua

Aerospace industry readies for Farnborough

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:53:08 CDT

Aerospace industry readies for Farnborough By Will Smale Business reporter, BBC News, Somerset Flying low over the ocean a mile off the coast of Alaska, my first ever helicopter lesson was proving to be a nerve-wracking experience. Concentrating like never before, I gripped the controls of the big Agusta Westland EH101 and gingerly turned her to the right. Thankfully I was in very safe hands, and had soon passed the helicopter back to instructor pilot Len Mathews, who after 27 years flying with the Royal Navy was calmness personified. I completely messed up the subsequent landing, though. But, fortunately, it was just a flight simulator. Presidential choppers Instead of Alaska I was actually in a giant aircraft hanger in Somerset, at the UK headquarters of Agusta Westland, one of the world's top-two helicopter manufacturers. Real deals are struck Howard Chesterton, executive director of the South West of England Aerospace Forum As the company prepares for next week's Farnborough International Airshow, I am being shown around its 350 acre site in Yeovil. Set to have the largest display of helicopters on show at Farnborough, the event will allow Agusta Westland to highlight its most recent achievements. Already the largest suppler of helicopters to the UK Ministry of Defence, last month it was announced that it had won a £1bn contract to supply 70 of its latest generation Future Lynx helicopters to the British Army and Royal Navy. And in December it is due to test fly the world's first ever full "fly-by-wire" helicopter, which does away with the usual heavy hydraulic systems. In addition, it is a key partner in a joint project to build a new presidential helicopter fleet for the White House. Shop window Agusta Westland, which is part of Italian defence group Finmeccanica and the UK's sole helicopter manufacturer, employs 3,500 people in Yeovil and is a major player in the aerospace sector in the South West of England. Also there are Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems in Bristol, as well as no less than 800 other aerospace companies of all shapes and sizes, making the South West's aerospace industry the biggest in the UK. And as Farnborough is their local show, it is their most important showcase of the year, enabling them to meet with potential buyers from around the world. "Farnborough is very much an ideal shop window," says Agusta Westland spokesman Geoff Russell. "One of the top four air shows in the world, it is a chance to show potential customers our range of products. "For larger firms like ourselves we don't normally sign new contracts during the actual show, but it can happen on the civil side ¿ there was once one wealthy private individual who turned up, said he liked a particular helicopter, and wrote a cheque for a deposit there and then." Doing deals Air shows like Farnborough are mainly about meeting potential future customers, and a good opportunity to make comparisons with its rivals, Mr Russel says. "Farnborough certainly is a substantial investment for firms like ourselves, but we wouldn't be spending the money if we didn't think it was worthwhile." For smaller aerospace firms, Farnborough is an even more important opportunity to highlight their work and win new contracts from the bigger firms. "Real deals are struck," says Howard Chesterton, executive director of the South West of England Aerospace Forum. "At the last Farnborough show, our smaller members agreed deals of nearly £2m, and we'll be there in force again this year." Back at Augusta Westland in Yeovil, the engineers are busy continuing with the day job. With helicopters off all shapes and sizes - and varying levels of completion - lined up in giant hangers, it would be enough to make a teenage aerospace enthusiast faint. And that's before they let you have a go on the flight stimulator. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/business/5171746.stm Published: 2006/07/13 23:05:20 GMT

Kenya: A cocktail of beauty & beasts

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:43:15 CDT

Sightseeing charters for can be easily arranged with Everett Aviation. If you are coming on holiday and would like to add a special treat to your trip just telephone or email and tell us what you would like to see and we will help you tailor a charter to suit your requirements and budget. Common requests include scenic flights over the Great Rift Valley, around the peaks of Mount Kenya, Lake Turkana, and other beautiful sights. .................... Kenya: A cocktail of beauty & beasts 2006-07-07 http://news.moneycontrol.com/india/news/lifestyle/kenyanairobi/kenyaacocktailbeautybeasts/market/stocks/article/225929 The sky is a writhing mass of flaming orange as I step off the airplane onto the tarmac. Kenya was going to be my getaway into the wilds of Africa. Nairobi however, was a delightful shock. Kenya's majesty may lie in her game reserves but the star of the show is Nairobi. Nairobi is happening, cool and hep. It looks nothing like a third-world country. Nightclubs, bars, discos, trams, imported cars (Marutis & Zens besides the Hondas & Combis), beautifully laid out roads, a gleaming skyline, a huge duty-free port and cuisines from across the globe. I had booked my trip with a slick tour operator, so on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta airport I was whisked off in a limousine, no less, to my charming hotel. Most hotels in Kenya have an old world charm to them and impart a very European feel to their service - a leftover from colonial masters, it lent a feeling of eternity to the columns and arches in our bayside room. The first stop in the evening is the exclusive Safari Club, that has a Cat Dance every night because it's the first watering hole any tourist hits in Nairobi. An exotic dance on drumbeats and bells, lithe, black as ebony women spar with their men on the stage. About 200 dancers from different tribes danced through the Ring of Fire, the War-Cry dances and the love folksies, which had huge sexual undertones. It is said that music moves in tun with their fluted bodies and not the other way round! All this while, we sit under the starlit sky, on our small terraced alcove drinking everything from cocktails to champagne to the humble Kenyan beer. The buffet is spread out on live coals; the night is blue and hungry for both the taste of delicious meats and curries and the sound of love. From small beginnings, Nairobi (in Masai it means 'Place of cold water') grew from being a pitstop on the slave route between Mombassa and East Africa, to the world's largest duty- free port. Every Tuesday, the city is full of tribesmen, craftsmen and artisans who come from as far as Serengeti (which could take days of travel). They bring handmade bamboo, ebony and marble, coral, wood, beads and glass handicrafts, play on the drums and sing in their bass voices to attract people going by. The market must be a good 300 acres of space spilling, with souvenirs, music and the haggling of bargains being struck - that's the Tuesday city market. Statuettes of warriors, rugs, Mica table stands, wood and grass in all its glory, work their magic on pursestrings. Home furnishings, collectibles and artware are a must-buy from the city marketplace. Indians have made their home here (Sindhis, South Indians and the assorted others) one meets them at the malls in Nairobi, or at the umpteen social dos that are in a league by themselves. These parties reek of old money, chauffeurs, uniformed matrons, housecleaners, aproned ayahs clucking behind baby strollers, fleet of cars and the works! The next night, we went to sharpen our fangs at The Carnivore, an unbelievable restaurant, where every type of meat you can imagine is served the way you like it. Venison, zebra, Eland (a type of antelope) alligator and crocodile meat, you name it and they have got it. No self-respecting meat-eating tourist can afford to miss eating steaks here. Passing through the vast Kikuyu farms, on the slopes of Mount Kenya, we arrive at the luxurious Mount Kenya Safari club, which is known as the legendary sanctuary of the millionaires of the World. It is one of the most beautiful hotels in the world. The service is incredible, hot water bottles between the sheets every night when you come back from your stupendous meal of sorbets interspersed with Continental & French food, a roaring fire in the living room of the suite, cool wine buckets laid out in the evening and wild fawns and antelopes pecking on your lawn each morning, as you look at the rising sun, coming up from behind Kilimanjaro. One night is reserved for a formal seven-course meal, completed with a serenade, so, you and your partner had better be wearing formal clothes. It has been suggested that a tuxedo and an evening gown were mandatory at the Mount Kenya Safari Club. Now, I knew it was for this very night. The children are packed off to the nursery for their entertainment and meals with a babysitter, and you were left to live it up for that one night. After each course, a sorbet is served 'to clear ze palette' like our steward said! Hollywood star William Holden created this property for kings, queens and the Czars of Hollywood, so they could party away from the paparazzi. Just experiencing the linen on your chaise lounge, the porcelain on the table, the cookies on a the tea tray makes the illusion complete: You are royalty for the night! Mr Holden also created a private zoo, which is comparable with any international, public zoo called The Orphanage, which houses the most exquisite creatures who are amazingly friendly with guests. So, there is the Extinct Bongo, an animal I've never seen or heard of before. A 100-year old tortoise, which is so big, that my son rode it! Zebroids, (Zebras mated with horses), rhinos you can actually pat without becoming their meal, baboons, apes, chimps, llamas you can feed, all live at the Orphanage. These are either orphans found in the wild or are especially bred because they are found nowhere else in the world - like the Bongos. We fed the llamas, chased the ostrich, shook hands with a pet chimp and patted the rhino! A trip to the interiors takes you through the Kikuyu farms and to the Sweetwaters camp, where we live in five-star tents, each tent complete with running water, commodes, dressing rooms, lights and lavish bunkbeds! And we get the most awesome view of animals coming to drink at the watering hole. The Masai Mara and its variegated experiences is a powerful reminder of why channels like Discovery, Animal Planet and the National Geographic thrive. They show fauna at its brilliant and majestic best. Watching lions mate, crocodiles eating wildebeest, zebras running in a swarm across the grasslands, giraffes running so slow you are scared for them it's a land that brings you the glamour of power and the sensitivity of the weak, in one package deal. And just to be able to experience all of this, you are glad you are alive, here and now! Bina Bakshi

Everett Aviation: The Everett Fleet, Enstrom

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:39:50 CDT

Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) This small helicopter is primarily used for pilot training and has proved itself extremely versatile, particularly in support of the wildlife service where the aircraft has been utilized for game counts and darting operations. It is also available for charter. It can carry up to two passengers, but is better suited to one. The 280C has a cruising speed of 80kts (150km/h) and an endurance of 2 hours. http://www.helicoptersonly.com/Helicopter%20News_Enstrom%20Helicopters.html Enstrom Helicopter Corp. Agricultural Spraying ... Enstrom Helicopter is reintroducing agricultural spraying kits for its piston models and four kits have already been sold. They are built by Isolair Incorporated, a manufacturer of helicopter systems based out of Troutdale, Oregon. "Helicopters are the ideal aircraft for ag spraying. Accuracy is optimized so that the sprayed substance is dispersed only where it should be and in the proper amounts," said President Jerry Mullins. "Isolair has been very successful in this market and initial sales show that this will be a very welcome option to our broad range of uses for our piston models." Isolair is excited to work with Enstrom in reintroducing the spray kit for Enstrom's 280FX and F28F piston models. "This addition to our product line will enable Isolair to offer our customers an even more diverse selection of systems," said Isolair President Michael Powell. "We look forward to expanding our relationship with Enstrom with future products for other models of aircraft." The kits can be easily installed on any Enstrom piston model and will sell for less than US$26,000 in most countries. The dry chemical system installed weighs 85 pounds (39 kg) and the wet chemical system installed weighs 127 pounds (58 kg). The piston models' gross weight is 2,600 pounds (1,179 kg). Dane Harris, of Helicopter Resources, Inc., in Monroe, N.C. received the first spray system. "I was awarded a forestry contract spraying timber and looked into what helicopter would be the most dependable and the best financially to run," said Harris. "After punching all the numbers, the Enstrom won hands down." Isolair has been producing fire fighting, agricultural spray and broadcast systems for the helicopter industry for over 20 years. Isolair is one of the leading manufacturers with some of the most innovative and efficient systems available to the industry. Isolair is proud to offer competitive pricing, quality, easy to install products, and an ongoing commitment to customer service.

Everett Aviation: The Everett Fleet, Eurocopter

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:35:27 CDT

BO 105 is a twin-engine, light, multi-role helicopter suitable for both civil and military applications. As a military aircraft BO 105 serves as observation, medical evacuation, utility and anti-tank attack helicopter. It is powered by two Allison 250 turboshafts each rated at 550-shp and driving a four bladed main rotor. ........................................ The Everett Fleet Everett Aviation has a wide range of helicopters for your needs. Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala (add link) this helicopter is used primarily for medivac, but also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. We operate the “LS” version of this helicopter which is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. This exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft is powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each. These larger engines allow for exceptional performance in the ‘hot and high’ environment in which we operate It has a range without re-fuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knots. It seats four passengers in its V.I.P. role, and has an easily interchangeable interior which can be easily configured to the medical role depending on the nature of the emergency. It can accommodate two stretchers and two seated casualties/ medical staff or one stretcher and three seated casualties/ medical staff.

Everett Aviation: The Everett Fleet, Eurocopter

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:27:54 CDT

06/29/2006 U.S. Army selects Eurocopter UH-145 for its Light Utility Helicopter Requirement Eurocopter’s first-ever Entry into American Military Market EADS North America and Eurocopter have committed the full resources of their UH-145 industry team to the production, supply and in-service support of this helicopter following its selection as the U.S. Army’s next-generation Light Utility Helicopter (LUH). The LUH requirement is for up to 322 aircraft with a potential program life-cycle value of U.S. $ 2 billion 06/29/2006 Official contract signature between Eurocopter and the Australian government confirming the order of 34 MRH-90s Eurocopter’s subsidiary, Australian Aerospace, and the Australian Defence Material Organisation (DMO) today signed the contract to provide 34 additional MRH-90 medium-lift helicopters to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the associated support for a period of ten years. The signing ceremony, which took place in Canberra, follows the announcement last week by Prime Minister John Howard and Defence Minister Brendan Nelson that the ADF was ordering the extra MRH-90s, the most advanced helicopter of its size in the world. 06/26/2006 Eurocopter and “Gazpromavia” have signed Maintenance Center Agreement to provide Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services for Eurocopter Helicopters in Russia Eurocopter is the first Western aircraft manufacturer to implement a full scale Maintenance Center to provide Maintenance Repair and Overhaul services for Eurocopter helicopters in Russia. The Center is based on the premises of Ostafievo airport located near Moscow. 06/19/2006 New major order for Eurocopter in Australia: the Federal Government will add 34 MRH-90s Eurocopter is once again selected by the Australian government to fulfill the Army helicopter needs. This decision comes less than two years after the Federal Government ordered the first 12 MRH-90s as additional troop lift helicopters. Already in December 2001, Eurocopter was selected to provide 22 Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) to the Australian Army. 06/02/2006 LAUNCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT FOR THE KHP HELICOPTER WITH EUROCOPTER On the eve of the arrival in France of the Korean minister, Mme. Myeong-Sook Han, and at the precise time when France and Korea are celebrating the 120th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the Korean government has given its final approval for the launch of the new KHP military transport helicopter, developed in cooperation with Eurocopter. 05/26/2006 EC 225, latest evolution of the Super Puma family, is ordered for the first time in China by the Ministry of Communications to Fulfil Search and Rescue Missions The Chinese Ministry of Communications (MOC) and Eurocopter have signed a contract for the acquisition of two 10/11 ton class EC 225. These aircrafts, the most up-to-date helicopters in their category, will be operated by the Rescue and Salvage Bureau to ensure Search and Rescue missions. 05/24/2006 Ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, Eurocopter offers China its world-class Helicopters, the EC135 & EC155, to answer the Security & Surveillance Needs Eurocopter is proud to be part of the 3rd edition of China Police in Beijing to reaffirm its commitment to China. 40 years of a fruitful relationship between China and Eurocopter have led to a privileged partnership. More and more China will rely on helicopters to perform a growing scope of public missions such as search and rescue (sea, mountains and natural disaster), fire-fighting, police, surveillance, emergency medical services, etc. http://www.eurocopter.com/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_contenu.php?mode=&noeu_id=42&lang=EN

Everett Aviation: Rates & Pricing

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:14:52 CDT

Helicopter Charter > Rates & Pricing Charter Rates - Current as of June 2006 Aircraft Hourly Rate (Euro) Hourly Rate (USD) Enstrom 280C € 340/ hour US$ 435/hour Eurocopter AS350-B2 €1,100 / hour US$ 1,408/hour Eurocopter AS355-N – Daytime €1,700 / hour US$ 2,200/hour Eurocopter AS355-N By night €1,900 / hour US$ 2,450/hour Eurocopter BO105-LS €1,850 / hour US$ 2,200/hour These rates are subject to V.A.T. where applicable (not applicable for tourist flights and flights outside Kenya). Charters for a full day normally carry a three hour minimum Passenger departure tax and landing fees are payable from government airports. Contract and daily rates are available for longer charters. Please contact us for details.

Everett Aviation: The Everett Fleet, Eurocopter

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:13:05 CDT

Everett Aviation has a wide range of helicopters for your needs. Eurocopter AS355-N This VIP helicopter is the only IFR certified helicopter, and one of only two twin engine machines in the region. It can be fitted with a 4 passenger VIP interior or the standard 5 passenger configuration. It has air conditioning and a stereo music system. It is fully equipped for IFR flight, with weather radar, Stormscope and a 3 axis coupled autopilot. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala (add link) this helicopter is used primarily for medivac, but also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. We operate the “LS” version of this helicopter which is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. This exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft is powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each. These larger engines allow for exceptional performance in the ‘hot and high’ environment in which we operate It has a range without re-fuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knots. It seats four passengers in its V.I.P. role, and has an easily interchangeable interior which can be easily configured to the medical role depending on the nature of the emergency. It can accommodate two stretchers and two seated casualties/ medical staff or one stretcher and three seated casualties/ medical staff. Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) The workhorse of the fleet. Can carry up to 5 passengers. The aircraft has an external load rating of up to 1,000kgs and is well suited for all types of filming work. The B2 has a cruising speed of 110kts (200km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours. This helicopter is equipped with high skids and a sand filter, allowing it to operate well off the beaten track. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, rescue hoist, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) This small helicopter is primarily used for pilot training and has proved itself extremely versatile, particularly in support of the wildlife service where the aircraft has been utilized for game counts and darting operations. It is also available for charter. It can carry up to two passengers, but is better suited to one. The 280C has a cruising speed of 80kts (150km/h) and an endurance of 2 hours. http://www.eurocopter.com/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_contenu.php?mode=&lang=EN&noeu_id=81 The single-engine AS 350B2, powered with a Turbomeca Arriel 1D1 engine, has a proven track record. Its flexibility and low acquisition cost has made it a very sought-after helicopter to perform a wide range of missions (passenger transport, aerial work, fire fighting...). The AS 350B2 is also an excellent utility helicopter able to carry under-slung loads of 1,160kg (2,557lb Thanks to its high useful load, it is well suited to all missions requiring various mission equipment, for medical transport... Its design calls for widespread use of composite materials (airframe, "Starflex™ "main rotor head, main blades , beam type tail rotor,etc...) The "STARFLEX™" main rotor head use torsion and flexibility of the composite material.

Everett Engineering, Everett Aviation: Eurocopter Service Station

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:09:11 CDT

About Eurocopter Created in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group is a Division of EADS, one of the top three aerospace companies in the world. The group employs 13,000 people. Its strong worldwide presence is insured by its 16 subsidiaries located on the five continents, along with a network of distributors and certified agents. 9,500 Eurocopter helicopters are currently operating in 139 countries on behalf of some 2,500 customers. Eurocopter offers the largest civil and military range in the world.The group now accounts for 30% of the world market. In 2005, Eurocopter secured its position as the world's No. 1, with a turnover of 3.2 billion euros up by 15% over the 2004 turnover – with orders for 401 new helicopters, once again leading the way in the civil and parapublic sectors with a 52% market share. .......... http://www.eurocopter.com/site/FO/scripts/siteFO_contenu.php?lang=EN&noeu_id=86 .......... Everett Engineering offers the highest standards of helicopter maintenance. recognised and appointed by Eurocopter in 2004 as their helicopter maintenance centre for Eastern Africa, we are the only such appointed centre outside Southern Africa. Our engineers are fully licensed by the KCAA and are factory trained in France by Eurocopter. In November 2005, we were certified to the ISO9001:2000 quality standard, giving both our engineering department and the company as a whole an international standard of quality and excellence. Our engineering rapid response team can travel widely and swiftly across the region to repair or maintain your helicopter. In addition to regular maintenance we also specialise in NVG (Night Vision) cockpit lighting conversions to complement the NVG pilot training.

Everett Engineering, Everett Aviation: Eurocopter Service Station

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:27:05 CDT

Engineering - Eurocopter Service Station Everett Engineering offers the highest standards of helicopter maintenance. recognised and appointed by Eurocopter in 2004 as their helicopter maintenance centre for Eastern Africa, we are the only such appointed centre outside Southern Africa. Our engineers are fully licensed by the KCAA and are factory trained in France by Eurocopter. In November 2005, we were certified to the ISO9001:2000 quality standard, giving both our engineering department and the company as a whole an international standard of quality and excellence. Our engineering rapid response team can travel widely and swiftly across the region to repair or maintain your helicopter. In addition to regular maintenance we also specialise in NVG (Night Vision) cockpit lighting conversions to complement the NVG pilot training.

Search & Rescue: Everett Aviation, Flight Services

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:26:08 CDT

Search and Rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited and for which Everett Aviation has developed an unlimited capability. Our aircraft are fitted with state of the art technical equipment such as Night Vision capability, FLIR (forward looking infra-red) and Night Sun. All our pilots are experienced in the use of this equipment which greatly increases the effectiveness of our SAR operations. In addition, this equipment allows us to operate safely and effectively in adverse conditions where other means would fail. Everett Aviation has developed an unrivalled capability for Search and Rescue. Over the years we have invested in as much specialised equipment as possible to enable us offer the best service. Kampala is situated near the shores of the second largest lake in the world and we undertake a variety of SAR tasks. Whether a boat has simply run out of fuel on the lake and needs us to find them and deliver extra fuel, or a more serious disaster requires rescue of people from the water with our winch, we have the capability to undertake tasks in the full range of situations. With the many mountainous regions in East Africa, helping to facilitate mountain rescue teams is one of our roles. We have made frequent rescues on Mt. Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro at heights of up to 18,000 feet. The versatility and low flying ability of a helicopter is perfectly suited to such roles. We now have: * SX16 Nightsun * Leo 400 FLIR * ANVIS 9 NVG * Rescue Hoist Over the past 10 years we have searched for, and found missing aircraft, boats, cars and people, retrieved lost climbers and off road motorcyclists.We are able to deploy a rapid response command centre, fully equipped to co-ordinate lengthy searches. We are available 24 hours a day to the Government, Civil Aviation Authority, Airlines, Embassies, NGO’s.

Kenya, Uganda Economies: Drought Cuts Crops

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:24:44 CDT

Kenya, Uganda Economies Wilt as Drought Cuts Crops (Update1) July 12 (Bloomberg) -- Azaliya Wagweku's farm on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has for decades produced enough coffee to provide for his family of five. Not this year. ``This is a very bad year for me, because the drought failed my coffee crop,'' said Wagweku, 84. ``At most, I expect to reap only a quarter of the crop I always harvest.'' Drought swept across East Africa this year, withering coffee, tea and food crops and hurting the economies of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, where agriculture is an $8.75 billion industry. About 8 million people in the region need food aid because of the drought, which began in 2005, said Shukri Ahmed, an analyst at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. ``It is one of the worst droughts that have been experienced in the region,'' Ahmed said. ``It is one of the worst in terms of the number of people and livestock affected.'' Declining production and incomes may destabilize rural economies, said Robert Bunyi, Africa economist at Johannesburg- based Standard Bank Group Ltd. For instance, farmers may save money by keeping their children home from school, resulting in a long-term reduction of productivity and employment, he said. Economists are scaling back growth forecasts because of the drought. Uganda's gross domestic product probably grew 5.3 percent in the year ended June 30, less than the 6.2 percent previously forecast, the Finance Ministry said. Tanzanian Finance Minister Zakia Meghji said June 15 growth would slow to 5.9 percent this year from 6.8 percent last year. Hunt for Water The more immediate problem, one that strikes visitors to the region, is the search for water by people and livestock, said the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization's Ahmed, who traveled to Kenya in March. ``The other thing that hits you immediately is the carcasses of animals that litter the landscape,'' he said. Agriculture is the linchpin of the economies in the region, accounting for three-quarters of employment, according to the FAO. Most are small-scale farmers, whose lives are being disrupted by the drought. ``Our incomes will be severely hit,'' said Joseph Njau, a coffee farmer in the northern Tanzanian town of Moshi. ``Flowering came in March and was poor, which will affect production next season.'' Economic Linchpin Agriculture accounts for 17 percent of the $13.8 billion Kenyan economy, 44 percent of Tanzania's $9.9 billion GDP and 33 percent of Uganda's $6.2 billion production, according to the latest FAO numbers available. Per-capita GDP is $434 in Kenya, $337 in Tanzania and $288 in Uganda -- all less than the sub- Saharan African average of $576, according to the International Monetary Fund. The lack of rain for irrigation led Kenya, the world's biggest black-tea exporter, to cut output forecasts by a fifth. That pushed up the average price at the world's biggest tea auction in the Kenyan port of Mombasa, where Unilever Plc's Lipton Ltd. is the No. 1 buyer. Prices averaged 38 percent higher this year at $2.01 a kilogram. Uganda, Africa's biggest producer of Robusta coffee, lowered its crop estimate by 8 percent. Tanzania, the continent's sixth- biggest coffee producer, reduced its forecast by 30 percent. Robusta prices have risen to $1.30 a kilogram in the growing season that began in October, from 89 cents in the previous season, said David Kiwanuka, manager of quality, regulatory and information services at the Uganda Coffee Development Authority. Uganda, which produced 2.7 million bags of Robusta last year, accounts for about 8 percent of global output. Impact on Factories Manufacturing is being hurt as well. The production of goods such as cleaning and personal-care products is being curbed as falling water levels cut hydropower supplies. ``The use of a diesel generator has drastically increased my operational costs,'' said Patrick Chore, general manger of Kampala-based Tarpo Industries Uganda Ltd., which makes tents and tarpaulins. The impact of the power shortages on manufacturing may be significant, said Standard Bank's Bunyi. ``Production costs could rise 100 percent because of power cuts,'' he said. ``In Uganda, at the moment you have power today and none tomorrow.'' Much will depend on whether the March to June rains were sufficient to avert widespread hydropower shortages, said Standard Chartered Bank's London-based Africa economist, Razia Khan. Although rainfall in the three countries was slightly above average through May, according to data from the Climate Prediction Center, it's too early to say whether that has added enough water to reservoirs to reduce power outages. Wagweku isn't optimistic. He plans to provide for his wife and three grandchildren by selling parcels of land inherited from his father. ``I always depend on coffee for my simple basic needs,'' he said. ``But the situation will be hard this year.'' To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Richardson in Johannesburg on prichardso10@bloomberg.net Last Updated: July 12, 2006 07:51 EDT

Everett Aviation: The Everett Fleet

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:27:23 CDT

The Everett Fleet Everett Aviation has a wide range of helicopters for your needs. Eurocopter AS355-N This VIP helicopter is the only IFR certified helicopter, and one of only two twin engine machines in the region. It can be fitted with a 4 passenger VIP interior or the standard 5 passenger configuration. It has air conditioning and a stereo music system. It is fully equipped for IFR flight, with weather radar, Stormscope and a 3 axis coupled autopilot. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala (add link) this helicopter is used primarily for medivac, but also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. We operate the “LS” version of this helicopter which is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. This exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft is powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each. These larger engines allow for exceptional performance in the ‘hot and high’ environment in which we operate It has a range without re-fuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knots. It seats four passengers in its V.I.P. role, and has an easily interchangeable interior which can be easily configured to the medical role depending on the nature of the emergency. It can accommodate two stretchers and two seated casualties/ medical staff or one stretcher and three seated casualties/ medical staff. Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) The workhorse of the fleet. Can carry up to 5 passengers. The aircraft has an external load rating of up to 1,000kgs and is well suited for all types of filming work. The B2 has a cruising speed of 110kts (200km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours. This helicopter is equipped with high skids and a sand filter, allowing it to operate well off the beaten track. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, rescue hoist, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. Enstrom 280C (5Y-EXS) This small helicopter is primarily used for pilot training and has proved itself extremely versatile, particularly in support of the wildlife service where the aircraft has been utilized for game counts and darting operations. It is also available for charter. It can carry up to two passengers, but is better suited to one. The 280C has a cruising speed of 80kts (150km/h) and an endurance of 2 hours.

Police Chief Cancels Sh110 MillionTender For Choppers

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:21:08 CDT

Police Chief Cancels Sh110 Million Tender For Choppers The East African Standard (Nairobi) NEWS July 10, 2006 Posted to the web July 10, 2006 By Ben Agina and Cyrus Ombati Nairobi A Sh110 million tender for the repair and maintenance of police helicopters has been cancelled after it ran into a turbulence of underhand dealings, The Standard can now reveal. Police Commissioner Major General Hussein Ali ordered the cancellation of a $1.5 million (Sh100 million) tender for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of four grounded police helicopters. Officials revealed that the police boss cancelled the contract after discovering that two firms had colluded to defraud the Government of colossal amounts of money. The police is currently operating without a single helicopter and the cancellation will further delay the return to service of the four Russian-manufactured helicopters that have been grounded at Wilson Airport, Nairobi, since February. The police boss has now ordered the re-advertisement, both locally and internationally, of the tender for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the four Mi-17 police helicopters. The tenders were supposed to be awarded today at Vigilance House. Sister companies The tender -No. KPAW 7-2005/2006 - was opened by the Departmental Tender Committee (DTC) of the Police force on February 20 this year. The DTC then appointed a tender evaluation committee comprising senior officers to analyse the tender and make recommendations to the committee. At the time, the committee acknowledged the two firms had qualified for commercial evaluation and recommended them for further consideration. But upon further scrutiny, documents made available to The Standard revealed that Avia and St. Petersburg were sister companies and had colluded to get the tender. "The two firms that passed the technical evaluation stage are sister companies thus there is no competition in the tender," said part of the recommendations by the DTC. The firms quoted $1,597,640.00 but with a marginal difference of only 60 cents. They also quoted similar prices in all their items. Other firms that quoted were Radom Ltd, Global Business Intelligence Holiday, JSC St, Fiesta Holdings Lt, M/s Syndicate Holdings Ltd, Cygnus Aviation and Israel Aircraft Industry. Sources within the police revealed that there appeared to be serious jostling for the tender by Kenyan busybodies who are keen on clinching the deal in collusion with bogus foreign registered companies. Some of these firms did not return their bid documents, fearing their local agents would be exposed. Third parties A team of Government officials visited Russia and Israel to inspect companies that could effectively repair and maintain the choppers. The team included Ali and Internal security Permanent Secretary Cyrus Gituai, Kenya Police Air Wing Commandant Maina Gitonga, Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) Senior Inspector (Airworthiness) Peter Mungai and Aircraft Maintenance engineer Githutu Mwangi. While in Israel, the team toured one of the government's largest aircraft companies, which has been contracted to undertake repairs and maintenance of NATO planes. It was after the tour that Ali and his team discovered that they could save the taxpayer a large amount of money by dealing directly with recognised firms and not agents. Most of the companies that tendered are not able to maintain helicopters and were intending to subcontract the job after winning the tender. "The Government wants us to deal directly with those companies which are competent. We do not want to go through third parties or briefcase carriers," said one officer. The Government was last year rocked by scandals on the tendering of security related contracts involving over Sh7 billions that were awarded to briefcase companies that did not have the capacity to carry out the contracts. Second-hand yard The scandals, which came to be known as the Anglo Leasing type contracts, led to the resignation of David Mwiraria (Finance), Kiraitu Murungi (Constitutional Affairs) and the dropping of Chris Murungaru (Transport) from the Cabinet. The helicopters - bought at the second-hand yard of a Russian company for Sh500 million - were initially supposed to be flown back to the vendor for overhaul at a cost of Sh30 million. The Police could not secure the money needed to overhaul the choppers that are meant for search and rescue operations. The plan was to remove the rotors, load them onto a cargo plane and fly them to Russia, where they would then be overhauled at designated yards. The startling news about the Sh500 million helicopter fiasco first surfaced in Parliament after several mishaps with the aircraft, two of which involved Vice President Moody Awori. The choppers were last used in March to ferry Sh6.4 billion cocaine haul from General Service Unit headquarters, Ruaraka, to the GSU Training School, Embakasi, before being grounded. Copyright © 2006 The East African Standard. All rights reserved.

Everett Aviation: Heavy Load and External Load Services

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:19:48 CDT

Flight Services > External Load External Load Everett Aviation's helicopters can lift/carry external loads of between 900kgs and 1,100kgs and our pilots can position these loads with precision. For example, positioning the heavy motors for lift installations into tall buildings becomes a simple task, especially in a confined area where getting a crane close enough is difficult. Whatever the load, we will be happy to discuss options to efficiently complete the task to your satisfaction. Please call our Chief Pilot for further information. We have positioned a 5 tonne drilling rig onto an island in the White Nile near Jinja by dismantling it using the helicopter as a crane, lifting it in smaller parts and re-assembling it with the helicopter on the island. We have done a similar task on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. We make regular lifts for Uganda Telecom in Uganda to remote sites. In 1999, we recovered a disabled AS350 helicopter from the sea off the Kenya coast near Lamu.

Kenya to construct second port in Lamu

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:18:38 CDT

Kenya to construct second port in Lamu By PHILIP ONYANGO Special Correspondent, The East African http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/ current/News/News1007063.htm The Kenyan government has finally made a formal announcement, after many years of speculation, that work on a second port in Lamu could start as early as this month. Minister for Transport Chirau Ali Mwakwere said the decision to embark on the project apart from stimulating economic activities in the east and north-east of Kenya, will also help to ease congestion at the port of Mombasa. "The potential is great for Lamu and the country as a whole since Mombasa port, which handles goods destined to Southern Sudan and Somalia will now delegate the responsibility to the Lamu port," the minister said. According to Kenya Ports Authority records, Sudan alone received 146,814 tonnes of goods through the Mombasa port last year compared with 67,225 tonnes in 2004. Somalia received 43,072 tonnes last year. Ethiopia, which has been receiving goods through Djibouti port, has also indicated its willingness to shift to the Lamu port as it will be nearer. Before the minister’s announcement last week, a high powered team of senior officials and representatives of investors had already visited Lamu on a fact finding mission to assess the viability of the island town for the multimillion dollar investment. Transport Permanent Secretary Dr Gerishon Ikiara led the team together with senior officials of the Kenya Ports Authority, Kenya Railways and a group of Kuwaiti investors. "It was not getting a second port for Lamu that the team discussed when they visited the town. They also discussed a transport network that will include roads, a railway line, a refinery and a pipeline connecting with the emerging markets in the Horn of Africa," a source told The EastAfrican. Lamu District Commissioner Kutswa Olaka confirmed the visit by the top Ministry of Transport officials but said details of the mission could only be given later. Setting up of a refinery in the area is likely if the ongoing exploration for oil in the Lamu basin proves successful. The drilling of the first exploration well by a British-Australian consortium prospecting for oil off Kenya’s coast is set to begin at the end of the year, according to the National Oil Corporation of Kenya Ltd (Nock) A Nock official said the oil prospecting consortium had already acquired a deepwater drilling vessel. "We expect the drilling of the first exploration well, one of two to be drilled by the consortium in the Lamu basin, to start towards the last quarter of the year," the official said. Australian oil exploration firm Woodside Energy, has awarded a contract to the Bristow Group of the UK for provision of helicopter services during the drilling of an offshore well in the Lamu basin. Bristow Helicopters International Ltd has confirmed that the contract will commence in the fourth quarter of this year. Recently, the managing director of Nock, Mary M’mukindia, announced that the test drilling of an offshore well would start in October. Although local leaders have supported the government initiative, they are calling for openness in the exercise, which is expected to open up the area for economic development. Lamu County Council chairman Omar Famau said there has been a lot of government and investor interest in the area in the recent past but what was important was for the people to be kept informed on all developments. "We would like to see the potential translated into tangible economic benefits for the local community," he said. He said the presence of the Kenya Ports Authority in Lamu had not been beneficial to the local community despite charging a levy on goods and vessels that use the inlet.

Eurocopter plans $1 bn investment in India

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:17:16 CDT

Eurocopter plans $1 bn investment in India P R Sanjai in Mumbai | BS | July 03, 2006 | 09:39 IST Eurocopter, the world's largest civil and military helicopter manufacturer, will invest over $1 billion in India over the next two years. A wholly owned subsidiary of European aerospace major EADS, the company has put in bids for over 500 helicopter manufacturing contracts for Indian defence. The company is planning to set up an Indian subsidiary, a helicopter training school, and a maintenance, repair and overhaul centre for helicopters in the country. Eurocopter Regional Sales (South Asia) director Rainer Farid told Business Standard that the company was bidding along with defence major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for light and 10-tonne helicopters for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. "We are exploring industrial deployment of our helicopters. Eurocopter is also planning to hire a qualified workforce for its India operations, based in Bangalore. The total investment in India could be in the region of $1 billion," he said. Eurocopter is bidding for 260 single-engine high-altitude light reconnaissance helicopters for the Army. The first 60 will be delivered by Eurocopter directly, while the remaining will be manufactured with HAL. Eurocopter India manager (administration) David Martin said the company had submitted joint bids with HAL for 200 ten-tonne helicopters for the Navy. "The company is also bidding for VIP helicopter contracts for the Indian Air Force. Moreover, we are in talks with corporate houses for VIP travel and offshore transportation," Martin said. Rainer pointed out that Eurocopter was also in the process of setting up a subsidiary, and a training school, which would be a hub for Asia. "This MRO will take care of all requirements of flight engineering and repair," he added.

American Eurocopter fetes expansion

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:15:55 CDT

American Eurocopter fetes expansion 7/6/2006 9:27:07 PM Daily Journal BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal COLUMBUS - Never say the French can't throw a party. To celebrate its recently-won contract to build Army helicopters, American Eurocopter - a subsidiary of French-based EADS - invited about 300 guests to its facility here Thursday and dazzled them with a quick air show, delicate finger food and chilled champagne. It was the company's way of saying thanks to those who helped clinch the contract, which will require the plant to triple its size and its workforce. Eurocopter will hire 250 skilled workers and expand its facility to 276,000 square feet immediately. Among those thanked were existing employees, community leaders, local legislators, Gov. Haley Barbour and members of the congressional delegation, including U.S. senators Thad Cochran and Trent Lott, and U.S. representatives Chip Pickering and Roger Wicker. Wicker, of Tupelo, who spoke at the event, termed Eurocopter's expansion "the good side of the global economy" and praised the world's second-largest aerospace and defense contractor for choosing the Golden Triangle. The company liked the area, said EADS North America chairman and CEO Ralph Crosby, due to its strong work ethic, community support, experienced leadership and quality of life. "This is the place where the best helicopters in the world will be built for the most important customers in the world," he told the crowd. Three phases Eurocopter will construct up to 352 of the UH-145 aircraft with $2 billion to $3 billion in potential value over the life of the contract. EADS' German facility already has built about 80 such craft for other clients. Its production technology will be duplicated in Columbus in three phases: light assembly of parts shipped from Germany; heavy assembly of parts; full manufacturing and production. "We're trying to build up a skilled workforce while reducing our risks," said Guy Hicks, EADS North America's vice president of communications and public relations. "It will take a few years to get it up to full production." Eurocopter will hire most of the new workers here, but the company has employed a handful in anticipation of winning the contract, said Marc Paganini, CEO of American Eurocopter. Those employees are undergoing training in Germany. Paganini, a French-born businessman working at the corporation's Grand Prairie, Texas, headquarters, said the first helicopter will be ready in November with 50 more being made here each year. One of its predecessors, flown to Columbus from Dallas, demonstrated the craft's maneuverability during a brief air show in which the pilot buzzed by the crowd and elicited oohs and aahs. Champagne flutes in hand, several guests flocked to the helicopter once it landed nearby. Its large windows, back loading dock and high rotors make it an ideal craft for medical evacuations and supplies shipments, Paganini said. "That's what the Army will use it for in civil missions in the United States," he said. Contact Emily Le Coz at 678-1588 or emily.lecoz@djournal.com Appeared originally in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 7/7/2006 8:00:00 AM, section B , page 6

Everett Aviation Flight Services

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:39:10 CDT

Everett Aviation Flight Services Helicopters are extremely flexible and useful aircraft, the different charter possibilities are almost endless, below we list our main services, but we are constantly finding new area in which to operate. If you don’t find your ideal charter in the list, just call to discuss your ideas in detail with our professional staff. We will endeavour to meet any challenge. ***** Filming Our experience in filming charters is unmatched in the region, we have helped bring to the screen such movies as The Constant Gardener, Tomb Raider, and Survivor Africa among others. Our fleet can support any kind of filming enterprise from large major motion picture productions to budget projects. Simply call our staff to discuss your requirements. ***** Special Events Everett Aviation has a long history of providing couples with spectacular wedding charters that fulfil their dreams. Each charter is specially tailored to each client providing them with exactly the service they want. Everyone will be amazed at the happy couple beginning their life together being chauffeured to their destination in their own private helicopter. What better start to a happy marriage? ***** V.I.P. Services Having ex-president Moi as a regular customer to beat the traffic and get away from it all quickly and efficiently, we are no strangers to the needs of the V.I.P. Our discrete and professional service is without peer as are our customers. Why waste your valuable time? For a safe and secure transit day or night, call our office to arrange a flight at your convenience to any destination of your choice. ***** Medevac Everett Aviation has nine years experience in performing medical rescues in Kenya and throughout the region. The flexibility of the helicopter lends itself perfectly to this undertaking. We can land at the scene of an accident and transport casualties directly to hospitals in Uganda, Kenya and as a flying ambulance service we have an amazing record of saving lives in East Africa. A fast an efficient service that saves lives, Everett Aviation is proud of its many air ambulance and medevac missions. ***** Search and Rescue Search and rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited. Everett Aviation ‘s aircraft are fitted with, state of the art technical equipment such as Night Vision capability, FLIR (forward looking infra-red) and Night Sun. All our pilots are experienced in the use of this equipment which greatly increases the effectiveness of our SAR operations. In addition this equipment allows us to operate safely and effectively in adverse conditions where other means would fail. ***** Flight Training Everett Aviation has the only helicopter pilot training school in East Africa. Everett Aviation offers PPL training using our Enstrom 280C and have both an “ab-initio” syllabus for new pilots (55 hours) and an accelerarted “add-on” course for hoders of fixed wing licences (35 hours). Both are approved by KCAA. ***** External Load ***** Tours and Safaris

Everett Aviation: ISO9001 Certification

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:34:56 CDT

ISO9001 Certification ISO9001:2000 Safety and Quality November 2005 marked the successful completion of nine months of intensive work on our quality systems that resulted in Everett Aviation's accreditation by Bureau Veritas of our company to the ISO9001:2000 standard. The process of maintaining quality for Everett Aviation and the improvements in all our services and safety levels resulting from ISO9001:2000 standards ratings is a continuing achievement of which the company is extremely proud. Everett Aviation is the only aviation company in the region certified for ISO9000:2000. As a result, Everett Aviation customers can be assured of the highest standards of safety both in our flight operations and engineering activities. Safety is the primary focus of this company, and we hold our selves to the highest standards in all aspects of our operation. Our pilots are trained to the best levels and must demonstrate their competency at regular intervals. Our engineers are all factory trained and equipped with all the tools, manuals and documentation to ensure they can maintain your helicopter to the highest standard. Every member of the company has attended and passed the ISO9000 training course.

Everett Aviation: Flight Services, VIP Services

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:28:01 CDT

VIP flight Services: No one likes to be stuck in traffic, but these days that is the reality of life in a big city. However Everett Aviation now provides an alternative. Our V.I.P. Interior consists of comfortable leather seats for four passengers. We can collect passengers from a variety of locations and swiftly transport them to their destination. These days the road trip to Entebbe Airport can take two hours in bad traffic, why waste the time? The versatility of a helicopter means that no longer is air transport limited only to airports, we can arrange landing sites to suit your needs. Security is much simpler when travelling by helicopter with no need for long convoys of security personnel en route. Our twin engine helicopter is doubly safe and reliable and our pilots are all trained to the highest international standards. There's no better way to beat the traffic and get away from it all quickly and efficiently. We are no strangers to the needs of the V.I.P. Our discreet and professional service is without peer as are our customers. Why waste your valuable time? For a safe and secure transit day or night, call our office to arrange a flight at your convenience to any destination of your choice. Everett Aviation is experienced in organizing long-range short-notice tasks; e.g. a VIP charter to Monrovia, Southern Madagascar, deployed in 40 hours.

East Africa News: Aya Group Explain Hotel (Everett Aviation RSS)

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:26:54 CDT

Uganda: Aya Group Explain Hotel Project The Monitor (Kampala) INTERVIEW June 24, 2006 Aya Group recently acquired land in Nakasero to build a hotel, displacing the UBC Tv offices. The issue raised a lot of complaint from many Ugandans who criticised government for the move. Aya Group Executive Chairman Mohamed Mohamed Hamid, tells Simon Kasyate why govt was right to do so and the benefits: What is AYA Group?______ This is a group of five companies namely Fifi Transport Ltd, Pan Afric Commodities Ltd, a milling company, AYA Biscuits Ltd, AYA Bakery Ltd and AYA Investment Ltd, which are interested in hotel and properties. We plan to put up the only five-star hotel in Uganda. Tell us more about this hotel______ We have chosen a number one architect and consultant in the world in the hotel industry. The Operator (Hilton) is also number one with over 2,750 hotels worldwide. We had this idea since the beginning of 2005 and the reason we did was that we realised that tourism in Uganda is picking up, but the hotel business was very poor. So after we made our studies, we realised there was an opportunity in Five-star hotels. We got all our proposals and plans and submitted them to Uganda Investment Authority (UIA). The Executive Director made an appointment with the president to make a presentation of the project, we met the president and got his go ahead on providing us with suitable land and guarantee us the waiver of taxes. We also got the go ahead for us to start the construction work. Did you specify the kind of land you wanted?______ Yes. You see, to have a five star hotel, you must have prime land in the city centre, that is the condition of the operator. You for example cannot put Hilton in Jinja or any other town except the capital. We told the Investment Authority that for us to invest the $90m (Shs165b ), this condition should be guaranteed and by the time we met the President, UIA had already secured the land at Nakasero where UBC TV was located. Did you receive all documents pertaining to the land and transferring it's ownership to you?______ Yes, I was given a land title. No guilt for displacing UBC TV, which is regarded by some as a national monument?______ I have been told by the management of UBC that, that was a very good thing for them, an opportunity to improve on their equipment, services and a better site to focus and provide better services to the nation. What benefits are there for Ugandans from this project?______ First of all, we are creating over 2,000 jobs. Secondly we are giving Uganda an opportunity to host big conferences by providing international standard facilities. It is also going to change the face of Kampala and will be like a landmark to Uganda. Beside that, from our study, we realised that we shall be paying more than $5million (Shs9.2b) in taxes and increasing per year for the so many years it will be in existence. The project will also benefit the local farmers whose produce will be consumed in the hotel. The benefits will go down the supply chain of food and services as opposed to the elitist view that a Hilton Hotel only serves the to benefit the well to do in Kampala. Being Sudanese by decent, the question on people's mind is why didn't you consider Sudan as a better site for his hotel?______ You see, people are making one mistake of yelling that 'Oh Sudanese brothers, Sudanese brothers!' AYA group has been in Uganda for the last twenty years and invested millions of dollars here. We are not a briefcase company, we are serious, solid investors with a clear track record. Look at our other companies. We are not here on trial and error, we know the country and the opportunities therein. Besides, a good thing is a good thing, regardless of who is doing it, I think we should all appreciate the good in the this hotel and actually support it because it benefits all. My message to Ugandans is that people who have showed confidence in the country and sunk in their money to develop it should be lauded rather than vilified. Are you saying you have received little or no support?______ No. From the government, we appreciate the incentives regime and its benefits, but my argument is that even these incentives can be made stronger if it is to attract even bigger investors. To the public, we have received a lot of populist condemnation but they need to be educated that support and appreciation of an investment in one's country, regardless of who is doing it, is a cardinal practice in the developed world. If Uganda aspires to go that direction, the citizens should practice this among others. This is a hotel structure that no one can move from this land. http://allafrica.com/stories/200606230865.html Copyright © 2006 The Monitor.

Airliners Photo of Everett Aviation Malawi 2005

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:18:48 CDT

Everett Aviation Aerospatiale AS-355N Ecureuil 2 Kasungu - Lifupa (FWLP) Malawi, June 30, 2005 Remark: 5Y-EXD (cn 5685) Photographer: Andy Pope URL (link) to this photo: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0916679/M/ Click here for full size photo! http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0916679&WxsIERv=Nrebfcngvnyr%20NF-355A%20Rpherhvy%202&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Rirergg%20Nivngvba&QtODMg=Xnfhath%20-%20Yvshcn%20%28SJYC%29&ERDLTkt=Znynjv&ktODMp=Whar%2030%2C%202005&BP=1&WNEb25u=Naql%20Cbcr&xsIERvdWdsY=5L-RKQ&MgTUQtODMgKE=&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=355&NEb25uZWxs=2005-09-07%2020%3A54%3A17&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=5685&static=yes&width=1024&height=692&sok=JURER%20%20%28nveyvar%20%3D%20%27Rirergg%20Nivngvba%27%29%20NAQ%20%28pbhagel%20%3D%20%27Znynjv%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=1&prev_id=&next_id=NEXTID

Everett Aviation: Engineering, Eurocopter Service Station

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:13:14 CDT

Everett Engineering offers the highest standards of helicopter maintenance. Recognised and appointed by Eurocopter in 2004 as their helicopter maintenance centre for Eastern Africa, we are the only such appointed centre outside Southern Africa. Everett Engineering's engineers are fully licensed by the KCAA and are factory trained. We were certified in November 2005 to the ISO9001:2000 quality standard, giving both our engineering department and the company as a whole an international standard of quality and excellence. Everett Aviation's rapid response team can travel widely and swiftly across the region to repair or maintain your helicopter. In addition to regular maintenance Everett Engineering also specialises in NVG (Night Vision) cockpit lighting conversions to complement the NVG pilot training.

Helicopter News: Whale of A Meal in Kwelera (Everett Aviation RSS)

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:10:18 CDT

WHALE OF A MEAL: A humpback whale, top of the pecking order in the sardine feeding-frenzy, beaches off Kwelera yesterday to catch its breath. Bloated gannets, so stuffed with fish that they cannot fly, can be seen wallowing on the surface in the left of the picture. Picture: MASI LOSI By DEON VAN DER MERWE HUGE flocks of gannets dive-bombing the ocean and pods of dolphins were the visible signs of large shoals of migrating sardines moving up the coast past East London yesterday. During the course of the morning, the sea off Kwelera River Mouth became a frenzied feeding ground as hundreds of gannets circled and dive-bombed spots where predator shad could be seen getting in on the act. Dolphins were also visibly part of the feeding frenzy, while on a number of ski-boats launched from Kwelera, fishermen were obviously hauling in the shad hand over fist. Several anglers were fishing from the rocks. A helicopter, with a camera mounted on the front, made numerous low-level passes over the ocean around Kwelera, hovering at times over particularly frenzied spots. The helicopter was possibly from the French film crew documenting the sardine run. Two members of the team died earlier this month when their microlight aircraft ditched into the sea off the Transkei Wild Coast. A number of people watching from the shore, some fortunate ones armed with binoculars, also revelled in the sight of between four and six humpback whales breaching and blowing around the activity. Reports were also received of sardine activity along the East London beachfront and off the mouth of the Buffalo River. Speaking to the Daily Dispatch yesterday Buffalo City Municipal amenities manager and marine biologist, Willie Maritz, said the whales “are the biggest chaps in the food-chain”. “They circle and dive under the shoals blowing bubbles that act like a net to get the pilchards (sardines) all bunched up. Then they move in and with jaws gaping, simply scoop up as much as a ton of fish at a time.” While “a ton at a time” sounds like a huge number of sardines, these “meals” must be gauged against the phenomenal proportions of the annual sardine migration up the east coast of South Africa. Every year between the middle of May until about the end of June, millions of sardines leave the area around the southern Cape coast and journey 1000km up the coast to the waters along coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Maritz says sardines can only survive in cold water. As the shoals move up the coast the strip of cold water gets narrower. “Off East London it’s about 10km wide and it narrows down all the way up the coast. All the while the migration is followed by predators such as sharks, dolphins, seals, gannets, whales and humans, all grabbing what they can. “By the time they reach KwaZulu-Natal, the sardines run into the warm waters from the Agulhas current right up against the coast and nature leaves them little choice but to beach themselves,” Maritz said. http://www.dispatch.co.za/2006/06/21/Easterncape/asard.html

Helicopter News: Cambridgeshire Police Explorer (Everett Aviation RSS)

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:07:46 CDT

www.rotorhub.com UK: Cambridgeshire Police officially launch new MD Explorer The MD902 Explorer is in Force and is fully operational - working across the county and our consortium partners - Essex and Suffolk. The £3.9 million helicopter is the Force's eye in the sky and boasts some of the most advanced technology, including a cutting edge computer mapping system, which allows the crew to pinpoint locations with greater ease. The helicopter carries a sophisticated Wescam camera system, which has superior thermal imaging equipment and a downlink which provides clearer and more enhanced images direct to the Force control room. The helicopter also features a 30 million candle power searchlight, a public address system and digital video recorders. Acting Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hopkins, who formally launched the new helicopter at police headquarters in Huntingdon, said: "The air operations unit is a vital part of the police family and plays an important role in investigations, operations and live incidents across the whole of Cambridgeshire. "The new helicopter can be utilised in many different ways, from searching for missing and vulnerable people, locating offenders and vehicle follows to surveillance, major incident planning and monitoring public order incidents." The new aircraft means that officers can fly for around two hours without having to refuel and can carry up to eight people, including the pilot and two air observers, compared with five in the old helicopter. The extra capacity is also useful in supporting MAGPAS, by taking the voluntary emergency medical team direct to the scene of an incident within minutes. The helicopter will also carry a high quality folding stretcher to allow the airlifting of victims to hospital. ACC Hopkins added: "The helicopter allows us to search areas of the county that we would not easily be able to reach and land in places where other police vehicles would not be able to get to. "The helicopter has already proven how valuable a tool it can be in fighting crime in Cambridgeshire, and across the consortium Forces, and I am sure that the new aircraft will be as big an asset to the Force, in keeping the county safe." Michael Williamson, Chairman of the Police Authority, said : "The Police Authority is delighted to have provided the funding for the new helicopter, which will prove to be invaluable support in a variety of situations, including searching for missing persons. "We are sending criminals in Cambridgeshire the message that there is no escape when we have this kind of technology at our disposal. "The new, quieter helicopter is even more technologically advanced and the Authority believes its presence in the skies is a welcome and reassuring one." Case study: During the training period, the helicopter was able to test some of the equipment following real-life incidents. On Tuesday June 6th, a call came into the control room at around 9.40pm reporting a serious road traffic collision involving three motorcycles on Potton Road in Abbotsley. The helicopter attended, taking both the MAGPAS doctor and paramedic to the scene - something which was not previously possible. Two of the motorcyclist's were taken to hospital with serious, but not life-threatening injuries. Also on June 6th, the air operations unit were called at around 10.40pm following a tracker activation in the Lincoln Road area of Peterborough. The helicopter attended and, using the thermal imaging equipment, quickly traced the yellow and black Bomag Roller, worth around £10,000, which had been reported as stolen the previous day, from Lincolnshire.

Helicopter News: Honeywell Forecast (Everett Aviation RSS)

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:05:41 CDT

Aviation Articles: Helicopter Sales Forecasts 2006 HONEYWELL HELICOPTER SALES FORECAST By Honeywell Honeywell forecasts industry sales of more than 2,600 new civil helicopters through 2010 • Civil helicopter sales during the five-year period 2006-2010 are predicted to be at least 15 percent greater than in the five-year period 2001-2005. • Close to 6,000 new civil helicopter sales during the 11-year period 2006-2016 are projected. "Honeywell Aerospace’s survey work has identified engine power, safety/crashworthiness, useful load, aircraft price and direct operating costs as the top five criteria operators consider when selecting new helicopters," observed John Todd, vice president, General Aviation and Helicopters, Honeywell. "The decision to acquire new helicopters is driven primarily by age of current aircraft and an operator’s desire for bigger cabins, more range, more power and better technology. Obviously, new model introductions help fuel that demand. OEMs report strong sales activity supporting our optimism about the long-range prospects for helicopters in a growing global economy. Region-by-Region Overview Asia, Oceania, Africa and Middle East: On the basis of the percentage of fleet to be replaced or expanded, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East together have maintained consistently high purchase expectations for the last four years. Operators in these regions expect to purchase helicopters equal to 20 percent of their current fleets during the next five years for replacement and fleet expansion. This compares to 15 percent in Europe, 21 percent in North America and 42 percent in Latin America. The survey predicts that over 16 percent of total world new helicopter sales over the next five years will be to customers in Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East. About 77 percent of future demand in these regions is expected to be for multi-engine craft. Operators cited aircraft age, fleet standardization, cabin size/comfort, hot and high capability, warranties, speed and power as key reasons for replacing current helicopters. http://www.avbuyer.com/Articles/Article.asp?Id=300

Safaricom Puts Up KSh110MM Nairobi Satellite Station (Everett Aviation RSS)

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:28:30 CDT

Safaricom Puts Up Sh110 Million Satellite Station in Nairobi The East African Standard (Nairobi) NEWS June 20, 2006 Posted to the web June 19, 2006 By Noel Wandera Nairobi Mobile service provider, Safaricom, has put up a Sh110 million satellite ground station in Nairobi's Kasarani area to route its local and international telephone traffic. The routing facility is also in preparation for the issuance of an international backbone traffic licence next month by Communication Commission of Kenya. The licence will enable Safaricom to operate independently from its parent company, Telkom Kenya. Industry players will view the strategic changes as preparation for divestiture by the Government in the leading mobile phone company, which it holds 51 per cent stake through Telkom Kenya. The Government had hinted at off loading a nine per cent stake of Safaricom to UK's Vodafone for Sh7.2 billion. Last week, Safaricom CEO, Michael Joseph, said that once the licence is issued, the firm will slash international call rates by up to 80 per cent. "The ground station is going to link calls directly to destinations in Europe, the America's and Asia via satellite. This will enable us to lower tariffs for international calls," said Joseph. Joseph said the Kasarani satellite station has been activated to handle local traffic from remote areas of Northern Kenya, where Telkom Kenya has no facilities. He said Daadab, Maralal, Marsabit, El Wak and Lamu are the first of the 150 remote locations Safaricom plans to connect through the use of Very Small Aperture Technology. "We have been relying on Telkom Kenya facilities in Kericho to relay call traffic from these remote areas to Nairobi via microwave links. This has been a lengthy and unreliable process," said Joseph. The project is part of a Sh17 billion network upgrade announced by Safaricom this year, which will also involve the construction of 250 base stations to support a 3G network. http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200606191485.html

Everett Aviation: Film charters

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:10:01 CDT

Everett Aviation are specialists in filming charters and have provided aircraft with an IMAX camera mounts & 35mm mounts for such projects such as Tomb Raider 2, Survivor 3, Constant Gardener, Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, Kilimanjaro. The premier helicopter charter company in East Africa, Everett Aviation is the only ISO9000 Company of this type. You can be sure of excellent standards of service and operation.

Everett Aviation: Queen Elizabeth National Park

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:00:18 CDT

You can charter a helicopter from Everett Aviation to take you on an aerial safari you will never forget. There are several areas in Uganda where these are a perfect way to see the landscape. Queen Elizabeth National Park has the massive Rwenzori Mountains and herds of Zebra and Giraffe on the shores of Lake Albert. Large groups can charter the helicopter to meet them at the parks and then provide safaris for groups of four passengers at a time. Murchison Falls National Park boasts a spectacular waterfall as well as elephant and lion. Whatever your requirements we will help you find an option that suits you.

Everett Aviation: Murchison Falls National Park

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:54:23 CDT

You can charter a helicopter from Everett Aviation to take you on an aerial safari you will never forget. There are several areas in Uganda where these are a perfect way to see the landscape. Murchison Falls National Park boasts a spectacular waterfall as well as elephant and lion. Queen Elizabeth National Park has the massive Rwenzori Mountains and herds of Zebra and Giraffe on the shores of Lake Albert. Large groups can charter the helicopter to meet them at the parks and then provide safaris for groups of four passengers at a time. Whatever your requirements we will help you find an option that suits you.

Everett Aviation: ‘Hairy Lemon on the Nile’ Day trip

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:53:25 CDT

This trip starts from our base at Kampala where we will fly you past aerial views of Kampala city to the shores of Lake Victoria, following the coast of the lake to the Source of the Nile at Jinja, some 50 km away. There we turn north and follow the Nile flying over some spectacular rapids and giving you a unique view of this mighty river. When we reach Hairy Lemon Island we will land and stop for lunch with your hosts, Erin and Rob. The Island is both beautiful and peaceful and you can spend some time relaxing in a shady grove, with a swim in an area naturally protected from the swift current of the river, or fishing quietly off the little dock or simply observing the wonderful birdlife that is abundant here.

Everett Aviation: African Safari

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:52:14 CDT

Bushtracks: African Safari For Families http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060613/nyfnsh05.html?.v=1 Enjoy a Southern Africa safari tailored to families. This 11-day trip explores the best of Southern Africa including game viewing in the greater Kruger National Park, the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls, Zambia and the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Adventure Collection, www.adventurecollection.com, is a consortium of 11 leading independent active travel companies with over 300 years of combined experience and specializes in experiential travel, intimately connecting guests to the places, wildlife and cultures they visit.

Everett Aviation: Uganda, Kampala International Hospital

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:49:14 CDT

http://www.medicstravel.co.uk/CountryHospitals/Africa/uganda.htm Everett Aviation (Uganda) provides a variety of Charter Services: We offer a fully equipped Medical Rescue Service, covering the whole of Uganda and beyond. Everett Aviation also offers V.I.P charter services which range from transporting, security conscious celebrities quickly and directly to their destination.

Everett Aviation: International Hospital in Kampala

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:09:58 CDT

Everett Aviation - Medivac Working with Flying Doctors in Nairobi and the International Hospital in Kampala Everett Aviation operates the only 24 hour all weather medivac service. ... www.everettaviation.com/medevac.html http://www.ugandatourism.org/medical%20fecilities.php International Hospital Kampala 11,Old Kampala Rd TEL: (256) 41 - 340531

(Everett Aviation) GPS signals all over Africa

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:00:54 CDT

Working with other organisations, ESA has already shown that EGNOS can be used in Africa for safe landings. Since 2002, a network of 10 EGNOS stations has been set up in different African countries. These provide corrections and improvements to the GPS signals all over Africa. This pioneering crossing of Africa is just the latest stage in a vast operation to bring safer aviation to Africa. The EGNOS system will be introduced gradually over the next year, and should be fully available for aircraft navigation by 2007.

(Everett Aviation) Win the chance to fly a helicopter

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:28:19 CDT

Win the chance to fly a helicopter Wish you could put those trendy aviator sunglasses to their proper use? Well, now you can. Win an unforgettable experience - learning how to pilot a helicopter. The prize includes a safety briefing and 30 minutes air time with an instructor, during which you'll have the chance to take the controls. http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=609

Everett Aviation: Special Events, Flight Services

Thu, 25 May 2006 22:36:42 CDT

Make your special occasion extra special by providing helicopter pleasure rides. We can station a helicopter at your outdoor event and run short pleasure trips for your guests. Whether this is at a charge to raise money for your charity or a special bonus for guests is entirely up to you. Please call to discuss your ideas and we will help you to find a charter to suit your needs.

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Thu, 25 May 2006 21:46:15 CDT

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Thu, 25 May 2006 21:32:32 CDT

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Everett Aviation: Eurocopter BO105

Fri, 19 May 2006 20:44:31 CDT

Eurocopter BO105-LS Based at the International Hospital, Kampala this helicopter is used extensively for medivac, and also has a 4 passenger VIP interior. The “LS” version of this helicopter features larger engines making it very useful for “hot and high” operations, with great power reserves. This helicopter is fitted with a rescue hoist, cargo hook and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a flight data recorder and GPS based tracking system installed. Eurocopter BO105 is an exceptionally reliable and sturdy aircraft. Powered by two Allison 250 – C28C engines which produce 500 hp each, it has a range without refuelling of 2 hours or 210nm at the cruising speed of 105 knts. Everett Aviation's Eurocopter BO105 seats four passengers in it’s V.I.P. role and has an easily interchangeable interior to the medical role where it can carry two stretchers and two other passengers or one stretcher and three other passengers depending on the nature of the emergency.

Everett Aviation: Eurocopter AS350-B2

Fri, 19 May 2006 20:39:56 CDT

Eurocopter AS350-B2 (5Y-EXA) The workhorse of the Everett Aviation fleet. The AS 350-B2 can carry up to 6 passengers in high density, but normally 5. It has an external load rating of up to 1,000kgs and is well suited for all types of filming work. The B2 has a cruising speed of 110kts (200km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours. This helicopter is equipped with high skids and a sand filter, allowing it to operate in hostile and rough areas. It also has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, has fitting for a cargo hook, rescue hoist, SX16 “Nightsun” and has a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has installed a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder.

Everett Aviation: External Load Flight Services

Fri, 19 May 2006 20:29:44 CDT

External Load Flight Services The Eurocopter Bolkow 105 which is operated in Uganda can carry external loads of up to 600kg. Our pilots can position these loads with precision. For example positioning the heavy motors for lift installations into tall buildings becomes a simple task, especially in confined area where getting a crane close enough is difficult. Whatever the load we will be happy to discuss options to efficiently complete the task to your satisfaction, just call our Chief Pilot for further information. We are currently able to lift up to 1,100 kg. We have positioned a 5 tonne drilling rig onto an island in the White Nile near Jinja by dismantling it using the helicopter as a crane, lifting it in smaller parts and re-assembling it with the helicopter on the island. We have done a similar task on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. We make regular lifts for Uganda Telecom in Uganda to remote sites. In 1999, we recovered the disabled AS350 helicopter from the sea off the Kenya coast near Lamu.

Everett Aviation: Flight Services, VIP Services

Fri, 19 May 2006 20:22:03 CDT

No one likes to be stuck in traffic, but these days that is the reality of life in a big city. However Everett Aviation now provides an alternative. Our V.I.P. Interior consists of comfortable leather seats for four passengers. We can collect passengers from a variety of locations and swiftly transport them to their destination. Security is much simpler when travelling by helicopter with no need for long convoys of security personnel en route. Our twin engine helicopter is doubly safe and reliable and our pilots are all trained to the highest international standards. There's no better way to beat the traffic and get away from it all quickly and efficiently. We are no strangers to the needs of the V.I.P. Our discrete and professional service is without peer as are our customers. Why waste your valuable time? For a safe and secure transit day or night, call our office to arrange a flight at your convenience to any destination of your choice. Everett Aviation is experienced in organizing long-range short-notice tasks; e.g. a VIP charter to Monrovia, Southern Madagascar, deployed in 40 hours. These days the road trip to Entebbe Airport can take two hours in bad traffic, why waste the time? The versatility of a helicopter means that no longer is air transport limited only to airports, we can arrange landing sites to suit your needs.

Everett Aviation: NVG Training for Helicopter

Fri, 19 May 2006 20:20:42 CDT

NVG Training Everett Aviation has the only helicopter pilot training school in East Africa. We offer PPL training using our Enstrom 280C and have both an “ab-initio” syllabus for new pilots (55 hours) and an accelerarted “add-on” course for hoders of fixed wing licences (35 hours). Both are approved by KCAA. Please contact us for more information.

Everett Aviation: Helicopter Industry

Tue, 16 May 2006 18:40:04 CDT

Company Name : Everett Aviation Industry : Helicopter Industry - General Address : Wilson Airport 00100, Nairobi Nairobi - Kenya Phone Number : 254 20 35 1010 Fax Number : 254 20 608 785 Website : www.everettaviation.com City : Nairobi Country : Kenya Company Profile : helicopter charter and maintenance

Everett Aviation: Filmography Mysteries of Egypt, Helicopter Filming

Tue, 16 May 2006 18:36:26 CDT

Everett Aviation, Filmography Mysteries of Egypt Plot Summary: Egypt is and ever was a place of mystery. Many rumors spread around the great Pyramids of Gizeh (the only one of the seven wonders of the world left) http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0145921/fullcredits Simon Everett .... pilot: aerial second unit

Everett Aviation: Filmography The Constant Gardener, Helicopter

Tue, 16 May 2006 18:34:45 CDT

Simon Everett .... pilot: aerial unit # The Constant Gardener (2005) (pilot: aerial unit) # Mysteries of Egypt (1998) (pilot: aerial second unit) ... aka Egypt (USA: short title) http://www.us.imdb.com/name/nm1889529/

Everett Aviation: Eurocopter AS 355-N

Tue, 16 May 2006 02:49:04 CDT

Everett Aviation Eurocopter AS 355-N. Often referred to by Eurocopter as the "Ecureuil 2," this VIP helicopter is the only IFR certified helicopter, and one of only two twin engine machines in the region. It can be fitted with a 4 passenger VIP interior or the regular 5 passenger fit. It has air conditioning and a stereo music system. It is fully equipped for IFR flight, with weather radar, Stormscope and a 3 axis coupled autopilot. It has HF, VHF/FM and UHF/FM communication facilities, a fitting for a cargo hook, SX16 “Nightsun” and a fully NVG compatible cockpit. For added safety, the helicopter has a “Mini HUMS” flight data and engine recorder installed. www.hsb.be/eurocopt.htm

Everett Aviation: Engineering, Eurocopter Service Station

Tue, 16 May 2006 02:31:17 CDT

Everett Aviation: Aerial Safaris, Charter

Sat, 13 May 2006 15:21:47 CDT

You can charter a helicopter from Everett Aviation to take you on an aerial safari you will never forget. There are several areas in Kenya and Uganda where these are a perfect way to see the landscape. Murchison Falls National Park boasts a spectacular waterfall as well as elephant and lion. Queen Elizabeth National Park has the massive Rwenzori Mountains and herds of Zebra and Giraffe on the shores of Lake Albert. Large groups can charter the helicopter to meet them at the parks and then provide safaris for groups of four passengers at a time. Whatever your requirements we will help you find an option that suits you.

Everett Aviation: Uganda Medevac

Sat, 13 May 2006 15:17:18 CDT

A related service to SAR (search and rescue) is Medevac (Medical Evacuation). With Kampala situated near the shores of the world's second largest lake, Lake Victoria, Everett Aviation completes a variety of medical evacuations. Whether a boat has simply run out of fuel on the lake and needs Everett Aviation to find them and deliver extra fuel, or a more serious disaster requires rescue of people from the water with our winch, Everett Aviation has the capability to undertake tasks in the full range of situations.

Everett Aviation: Search & Rescue Flight Services for Government Clients

Sat, 13 May 2006 15:12:07 CDT

Search and rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited and Everett Aviation has performed some of the region's most challenging Search and Rescue missions. We are available 24 hours a day to the Government, Civil Aviation Authority, Airlines, Embassies, NGO’s. Our fleet has a number of helicopters to meet different official needs.

Everett Aviation: SAR, Search and Rescue

Sat, 13 May 2006 15:08:37 CDT

Search and rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited and Everett Aviation has performed some of the region's most challenging Search and Rescue missions. Everett Aviation has developed an unrivalled capability for Search and Rescue. Over the years we have invested in as much specialised equipment as possible in order to be able to offer the best SAR service. With the many mountainous regions in Kenya and Uganda, helping to facilitate mountain rescue teams is one of our roles as is finding kayakers lost on the river. The versatility and low flying ability of a helicopter is perfectly suited to the needs of these time-sensitive rescue missions. We now have: * SX16 Nightsun * Leo 400 FLIR * ANVIS 9 NVG * Rescue Hoist Over the past 10 years we have, searched for and found missing aircraft, boats cars and people, retrieved lost climbers, off road motorcyclists. We are able to deploy a rapid response command centre, fully equipped to co-ordinate lengthy searches.

Everett Aviation: Search and Rescue, Night Vision

Sat, 13 May 2006 14:30:00 CDT

Search and rescue is an important role for which helicopters are ideally suited. Everett Aviation's aircraft are fitted with, state of the art technical equipment such as Night Vision capability, FLIR (forward looking infra-red) and Night Sun. All of Everett Aviation's pilots are experienced in the use of Night Vision equipment which greatly increases the effectiveness of our SAR operations. Night Vision equipment allows Everett Aviation to operate safely and effectively in adverse visibility conditions where other means fail to successfully accomplish Search and Rescue missions.

Everett Aviation: Helicopter Services

Sat, 13 May 2006 14:26:24 CDT

* Filming * Special Events * V.I.P. Services * Medevac * Search and Rescue * Flight Training * External Load * Tours and Safaris

Everett Aviation: Flight Services

Sat, 13 May 2006 14:18:19 CDT

Helicopters are extremely flexible and useful aircraft, the different charter possibilities are almost endless, below we list our main services, but we are constantly finding new area in which to operate. If you don’t find your ideal charter in the list, just call to discuss your ideas in detail with our professional staff. Everett Aviation endeavours to meet any challenge that can be met safely within ISO safety standards.

Everett Aviation: Charter Services

Sat, 13 May 2006 14:15:39 CDT

Everett Aviation offers a wide range of charter services with our helicopters. If it can be done safely, we will do it for you. Ranging from regular passenger charters, VIPs, external load through to baby elephants, if it can be moved in a helicopter, we can do it for you all over East Africa. Everett Aviation operates regularly in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique & Malawi, we operate in Sudan and Somalia on request, and subject to assessment of the task, and all over the rest of Africa on demand. Everett Aviation's flight team is able to deploy over long distances at short notice, both for rescue & regular flights.

Everett Aviation: ISO9001 Certification, Safety and Quality

Sat, 13 May 2006 14:11:03 CDT

Everett Aviation: ISO9001 Certification, Safety and Quality November 2005 marked the successful completion of nine months of intensive work on our quality systems that resulted in our accreditation by Bureau Veritas of our company to the ISO9001:2000 standard. The process of quality and the resulting improvements in all our services and safety levels is an achievement of which the whole company is extremely proud. Everett Aviation is the only aviation company in the region with this certification, and, as a result, our customers can be assured of the highest standards of safety both in our flight operations and engineering activities. Safety is the primary focus of Everett Aviation, and we hold ourselves to the highest standards in all aspects of our operation. Everett Aviation pilots are trained to the best levels and must demonstrate their competency at regular intervals. Our engineers are all factory trained and equipped with all the tools, manuals and documentation to ensure they can maintain your helicopter to the highest standard. Every member of Everett Aviation has attended and passed the ISO9000 training course.

Everett Aviation: Medevac Flight Services:

Sat, 13 May 2006 13:55:58 CDT

Everett Aviation has nine years experience in performing medical rescues in Kenya and throughout the region. The flexibility of the helicopter lends itself perfectly to this undertaking. Everett Aviation can land at the scene of an accident and transport casualties directly to hospitals in the region to provide a fast and efficient service that saves lives. Working with Flying Doctors in Nairobi and the International Hospital in Kampala Everett Aviation operates the only 24 hour all weather medivac service. Everett Aviation's Medevac flight team also able to do Mountain rescue using our AS350-B2 on Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya. In conjunction with the Flying Doctors service in Nairobi we have rescued patients form all over Eastern Africa, by day and by night. The highest rescue was at 18,000ft on Mt. Kilimanjaro. The longest rescue was 1,600 km each way into Sudan. Medevac to Central Sudan, 1100 miles (1,760km) each way, patient successfully recovered to Nairobi Hospital – completed in 48 hours.