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.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and ITT Exelis have entered into a licensing agreement for Exelis to provide its real-time integrated next generation flight-tracking data for ERAU's academic research and analysis.
Beech is claiming that its Twin Bonanza is the strongest airplane in commercial aviation — designed and tested to withstand inflight loads equal to almost seven times its own weight. It's even got an airstair door so you don't “ever have to get near the engines.”
April 23 — About 1015 PDT, an experimental League Lancair Propjet (N66HL) impacted the terrain about 4 mi. southeast of Sisters, Ore. The private pilot and his flight instructor received fatal injuries, and the airplane, which was owned and operated by the pilot, sustained substantial damage. The local instructional flight, which departed Roberts Field, Redmond, Ore., about 70 min. prior to the accident, was being operated VFR. No flight plan had been filed.
