Jessica is Executive Editor of Business & Commercial Aviation magazine. She started as Editor of ShowNews Online, Aviation Week's on-site trade show daily published at the Paris Air Show, NBAA Annual Convention, Singapore Air Show and at other significant aerospace gatherings.
Jessica has worked in television production and management consulting. While not yet a licensed pilot, Ms. Salerno has received flight instruction and has soloed.
Prime-mover helicopter, the S-64, is described by Sikorsky as akin to a “tractor truck, locomotive or tugboat.” Shown in its first public flight at the Stratford plant, the S-64 carries an 8-by-10-ft. truck trailer. It has cargo fittings (hard point) for passengers, cargo pods or truck bodies and can taxi with containers attached to the airframe. Powered by two P&WA JFTD-12 turbines rated at 4,050 shp each, it has a six-ton lift capacity for 200 nm. Two are earmarked for the West German government.
Aero Charter, St. Louis, Mo., hired Dustin Stephenson as a charter pilot. He has been a pilot for over eight years and worked as a professional pilot for six. He has experience operating 47 aircraft types.
June 24 — About 1155 EDT, a Universal Stinson 108 (N39443), operated by a private pilot, was substantially damaged while ditching in the Atlantic Ocean, following a total loss of engine power during cruise flight near Portland, Maine. The private pilot was fatally injured. No flight plan was filed for the personal flight that departed Twitchell Airport (3B5), Turner, Maine, about 1030 in VFR conditions. According to preliminary data from the FAA, the airplane was in radio and radar contact with Portland International Jetport (PWM) Approach Control. About 10 mi.
