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| 01.01.2009 |
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Editor’s Notebook
The Three Little Angels of Spending This month, we bring you our R&W Annual Report. And as you probably saw during your initial flip-through, it contains two sections. The first is called "Executive Outlook," which contains comments and...
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| 12.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook: 2008 versus 2009: Will We Dodge the Bullet?
Well, the financial house of horrors that was 2008 is almost over. Having missed the Great Depression by one generation, I’ve never before seen so much turmoil and gnashing of teeth in the U.S. Personally, I stopped complaining about high prices at the...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Changing of the Guard
Frankly, it feels pretty weird. After five years of looking into this very same office to find James T. McKenna banging away on his computer, he is gone. The walls are stripped of his journalism awards, the shelf is relieved of his satellite radio, and the...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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An End, and Amends
Like much of the televised world, the McKenna household was captivated in August by the performance, dedication and grace of the world’s athletes gathered in Beijing for the Summer Olympic Games. My 20-year-old son bared a chauvinistic streak, which was...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Making the Call
As I write this, a panel of distinguished judges is reviewing nominations for Rotor & Wing’s Helicopter Heroism Award and other honors. Their recommendations will help the staff of the magazine decide the winners of those awards. We will present the...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook: The Back Story
There is always far more to a news story than what makes it into print — the back story of all the intricate maneuvering and hours of negotiations, the legal and financial aspects, who may be grinding an axe, protecting a friend or pursuing a financial...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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A Not So Distant Future
The foundation is being laid for a fundamental change in the helicopter industry. Like many such changes, it rests in the military. I suspect it won’t be long before civil operations are built on that foundation. Its creation is taking place in the...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Our Brothers’ Keepers?
Reader Robert Rendzio took us to task last month. Our recent Question of the Month about the impact of Silver State Helicopters’ shutdown on the U.S. industry was callous, he wrote in our May Feedback column, considering the many young victims of that...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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More Heroes Ahead
Recent years have brought a broadening of the field of heroism in helicopters. AgustaWestland’s AW139 is a case in point. It is still relatively new to the field. But its operators, such as the Italian operator Air Green in the Alps and the United Arab...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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Do We Need an X-Prize?
Where is Raymond Orteig when we need him? Aviation history buffs know that name as belonging to the hotelier who in 1919 offered $25,000 to the first to fly nonstop between New York and Paris. The more recognizable name associated with his is that of Charles...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Hug a Fed
If you’re involved in any part of the U.S. civil industry, that headline got your attention. "Fed," as in a federal government employee — in this case, one for the FAA, is a term that can engender warm feelings among holders of airman...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Editor’s Notebook: A Team Effort
I ’ve been remiss. For nearly two and a half years, Rotor & Wing has been reporting on the International Helicopter Safety Team and its efforts to slash the helicopter accident rate 80 percent by 2016. R&W has been the source of information on...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Rotor & Wing: Editor’s Notebook
New and Improved You can see quite clearly that we have some new things in store for this new year. This first issue of 2008 launches our redesign of Rotor & Wing. Now the redesign of a publication can be a very good thing. Done well, it gives the...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Year-End Bonus
WE’RE EXCITED THIS MONTH AT Rotor & Wing, for a number of reasons. Our cover gives some hints of that, but just hints. There, for instance, you see a "blurb," as we call that text, about our 2007 Customer Satisfaction Survey. Those four...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: The Best Part of My Job
I’LL CONFESS I’M PRONE, AS PERHAPS many of us are, to get "head down" and lose perspective amid the press of daily duties. For example, as I write this, my local fire company has just concluded its annual open house (I believe I’ve...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Editor's Notebook: Wheat Among the Chaff
I CAME ACROSS AN INTRIGUING story back in June. Seems a tribe in Brazil’s Amazon had dropped its longstanding tradition of avoiding much interaction with the modern world. The reason? Members of the Karitiana tribe had discovered that researchers that...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: The Ones Who Really Count
LATELY, WE’VE BEEN WATCHING "The Devil Wears Prada" on cable in the McKenna house. My son is keen on Anne Hathaway, the centerpiece of the fashion show that is that movie. I’m not going to lie to you. I enjoy Ms. Hathaway’s scenes...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Editor’s Notebook: New and Improved
IT’S FUNNY WHO YOU RUN INTO when you’re out and about. While in Paris for the biennial air show last month, I was weaving my way through the Metro subway system to a dinner appointment when I overheard an American getting directions in English to...
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| 10.01.2004 |
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Editor's Notebook: Transformation
We are approaching the end of what may come to be known as a year of transformation for the helicopter industry. The year opened with Eurocopter laying the physical and political foundation for its pursuit of more U.S. sales with construction of an assembly...
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| 09.01.2004 |
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Editor’s Notebook: Selling the Seed Corn
Two competitions making headlines at Farnborough raised pointed questions about the future of the U.S. rotorcraft industry. The main event at the biennial gathering was the fight between Airbus and Boeing to be the main provider of next-generation airlines...
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