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Virtually all of the equipment and supplies necessary in the aviation industry can be pretty costly, but with some creative shopping and the use of highly efficient equipment, like battery powered helicopter tugs, it’s possible to dramatically cut costs without sacrificing quality or service level. A new website has launched that will hold auctions for [...] A helicopter can be the best friend of a person in need of emergency rescue or transport or of the police who need a pair of eyes in the air during a dangerous pursuit. Many of the jobs that helicopters are used for involve people in life and death situations, so it’s critical that when [...] Large airports may have hundreds of airplanes flying out and coming in each day, planes of a wide variety of different sizes and weights and each of them will ultimately need to be either jockeyed out onto the runway or parked in a crowded hangar. Even the smallest of local airports could have a few [...] An eight million dollar runway renovation project planned for the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport in Colorado that was the contracts were expected to have been signed for this Summer is now on hold due to lack of funding. Nearly all of the money was to come from the FAA, but Congress’ failure to approve continued [...] We’re all accustomed to seeing the dramatic water rescues or medical choppers transporting patients after serious accidents on the news. We’ve also all seen the helicopters hovering over the roads clogged with cars reporting the details of local traffic jams, but in Southern British Columbia right now there is a much different reason for that [...] After nearly a week of closures and cancellations due to the ash laden airspace, many European and UK airports have resumed regular operations. The ash from an Icelandic volcano eruption has had potential flight passengers stranded all over the world and basically wreaked have with the ability to fly over much of Europe. Though flight [...] Over the course of the winter we saw massive delays and cancellations throughout all of the Northeastern US due to record breaking snowfall and frigid weather conditions. Last week a very different variety of natural occurrence wreaked havoc with airspace and caused the cancellation of hundreds of flights throughout the UK and many other parts [...] There are a number of financial positives being reported from the aviation industry: American Airlines and Airtran Airways both reported increases in traffic during the month of March and though US Airways traffic remained virtually the same, the company reported a gain in revenue. Increases in traffic and revenue gains are both good signs for [...] FAA airport inspections are underway, and the Nashville International Airport managed to net a perfect score on their inspection. The FAA inspections includes inspection or airport records of incidents, actions that were taken and goes over reports of in hose inspections and examines the airport’s overall compliance with safety regulations in virtually all areas of [...] Nearly fourteen million dollars in state and federal grants will be divided among 32 Pennsylvania airports for necessary repairs, upgrades and safety enhancement. The different plans for the funds vary from equipment upgrades to runway repairs and just about everything in between. Aviation is a huge industry in the state of Pennsylvania, but many of [...] |
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