StarPort, a subsidiary of Cambata Aviation International, LLC, announces its addition of aviation industry veteran Bruce Van Allen as director of marketing for the full-service fixed-based operator (FBO) located at Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB).
D.O.M. News
11/01/2011 - 12:00
Are you proud to be an Aircraft Maintenance Professional?
10/18/2011 - 14:29
LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, New York (October18, 2011)– FlightSafety International is very pleased to announce that Steve Phillips has been promoted to Vice President, Communications.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
“I don’t drink water. Fish [make love] in it.”
W.C. Fields
10/01/2011 - 12:00
The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) has elected its 2011 Board of Directors. Those elected for two-year terms as PAMA Directors are:
• Chairperson – Roger Sickler, President, Air Land Turbine Services Inc.
• Vice Chairperson – Jeff Gruber, Instructor, Columbus State Community College
• Secretary – John Wicht, DER, Rapco Inc.
• Treasurer –Richard Wellman, Field Service Representative, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
• Director – Carl Violette, Director of Maintenance, Mass Mutual Financial Group
10/01/2011 - 12:00
Duncan Aviation has promoted Monte Reeves and Tony Leitschuck to leadership positions in customer service support at the company’s Lincoln, NE facility.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
ShipitAOG offers the Fire-Fighter – a new SAFETY product for the containment of fires from thermal runaway lithium battery devices while in flight.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
October is a time of the year that many businesses begin the annual process of planning for the next year. Many suppliers, parts distributors, and manufacturers begin analyzing how they have been performing during the current year — and looking to next year to determine if and how they should grow.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
West Star Aviation’s East Alton (ALN) location has been appointed an Authorized Service Center for Embraer Phenom 100 and 300 aircraft models. West Star Aviation’s St. Louis location (SUS) is also included under the appointment of ALN as a service center.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announces it has recently launched a multi-tiered recycling program that has successfully diverted more than 1.2 million pounds of recyclables from the company’s waste stream.
Wood recycling has saved 782,620 pounds from the landfill since November 2010 when the Savannah-based program was implemented. Single-stream recycling of paper, metal, plastic and cardboard accounted for another 433,940 pounds between February 2011, when the program was established at the company’s Savannah and Brunswick facilities, and June.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
Machida announces another addition to its Videoscope product line. In addition to its standard 2mm and 3mm Videoscopes and its 3mm Working Channel Videoscope, it now offers Standard Videoscopes with 4mm outer diameters.
10/01/2011 - 12:00
Being pressed for time, working in poor surroundings, having a lack of resources, inavailability of instructions, having availalble instructions that we choose not to use — these and a number of other less-than-ideal conditions describe a typical day in aviation maintenance. Under these conditions, we are left to our own devices to make decisions so we do the best we can do. We make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, taking into account probable risk and using past experience.
Experience
10/01/2011 - 12:00
Robert G. “Bob” Fowler [1883-1966] - By Giacinta Bradley Koontz
10/01/2011 - 12:00
Some of the mail order suppliers have been involved in a dishonest form of deception for years. The deception occurs when “XYZ supplier” prints a catalog full of aircraft parts. This catalog can be online and in print. The parts in the catalog look like certified aircraft parts and are always significantly cheaper. Watch what happens next.
Barney’s mistake