Bell Receives 429 Increased Weight Approval in Argentina | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts | Premier Jet Aviation Bell Helicopter recently announced another country has approved the increase of the aircraft operational gross weight to 7500 pounds. The Administración Nacional de Aviación Civil in Argentina has joined the growing number of countries who have […]
Interational Space Station Rendezvous | The JetAv Blog by Jack Schweibold | Premier Jet Aviation Last week a trio of astronauts traveling onboard a Russian-made Soyuz capsule reached the International Space Station, two days after launching from the Baikonur cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan. As aviators we tend to focus our interest on the Soyuz capsule, […]
Brief Introduction of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for China’s Civil Aviation | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts. The goal of China’s “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” is to strategically build aviation in order to guide the development of the civil aviation industry to ensure continued safety, to speed up the construction of the infrastructure and to […]
New OH-58D Warrior Delivered | The JetAv Blog by Jack Schweibold. Last month the Army increased its helicopter muscle by delivering the first totally rebuilt OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter to the 6th Cav Regiment at Corpus Christi. I never would have imagined its eventual role moving from “Observation” to “Attack” when I demonstrated new OH-58 […]
Never Alone In Aviation: The JetAv Blog by Jack Schweibold. Have you ever felt lonely in aviation? During the height of the Cold War following WWII I was at the SIAI Marchette factory just north of Milan, Italy. The mission was to evaluate a new installation of a turboprop engine in one of their new […]