http://www.aviationtoday.com Aviation Today en-us 2009 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:07:32 EDT After more than five years in the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine, James T. McKenna is moving on. “I am indebted to the many people in this industry who, through their... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Change-of-Command-at-Rotor-and-Wing_26093.html Fri, 19 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT A recent briefing by the aerospace company for investors and financial analysts has some observers wondering if that will happen. Jim Albaugh, president and CEO of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, was pressed at that event on whether Boeing would sell its... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Boeings-Return-to-the-Civil-Market_22818.html Tue, 17 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT According to China’s Xinhua News, Chinese military forces have helped evacuate more than 1.33 million people from regions hit by the May 12 earthquake. Since the quake devastated China's southwest Sichuan Province... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Chinese-Military-Evacuates-Millions_22819.html Tue, 17 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT According to the U.K.’s National Audit Office, the Ministry of Defence mishandled the purchase of eight Chinook helicopters from Boeing and took delivery even though the avionics software was... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Eight-U-K-Chinooks-on-Tarmac-While-War-Rages_22509.html Wed, 4 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Zip Aviation, a charter helicopter company that flies into the West 30th Street Heliport in Manhattan, will begin service to Stewart Airport located in upstate N.Y. This will be... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/New-York-Airport-Gains-More-Service_22510.html Wed, 4 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT Work on the two Chinook CH-47Fs at the Boeing plant in Ridley Township, Penn., stopped as suspicions of sabotage dominated an unfolding investigation into how the two military helicopters were damaged as they were nearing completion for an Army contract that runs through 2018. The reports indicate that... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Boeing-Resumes-Work-on-Military-Helicopters_22014.html Fri, 16 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Silver State Helicopters closed and locked its doors and filed for bankruptcy in February, leaving thousands of students owing loans and without their certificates. Now a California law firm, Pinnacle Law Group, has filed a proposed class-action suit against Cleveland, Ohio-based KeyBank, seeking to bar the... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Silver-State-Students-Sue-Lender_21972.html Thu, 15 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The United Kingdom’s Prince William was awarded his Royal Air Force pilot wings April 11, having completed rotary- and fixed-wing training. The prince trained in Eurocopter AS350s at the Defence Helicopter... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/People_21489.html Thu, 1 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The U.S. Army Contracting Agency has awarded a $24.3-million rotary-wing flight training contract to Lear Siegler Services, Inc. for a six-month period beginning April 1. Lear Siegler is the incumbent... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/Contracts_21492.html Thu, 1 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Schweizer Aircraft’s newest helicopter will be the turbine-powered Model 434, sources familiar with the program tell      Rotor & Wing. The Sikorsky Aircraft subsidiary is pursuing accelerated development of the... http://www.aviationtoday.com/rw/pressreleases/R-and-W-EXCLUSIVE-New-Schweizer-Model-The-434_15258.html Tue, 28 Aug 2007 0:00:00 EDT