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.
June 19 — At 0227 MST, a Beech A36 (N155FT) collided with terrain approximately eight miles north-northeast of Seligman, Ariz. The commercial pilot, who was also the registered owner of the airplane, was killed and the airplane was substantially damaged. It was VFR at the time and no flight plan was filed. An Alert Notice (ALNOT) was issued on June 19. The wreckage was located at 1030 MST on June 23. According to a family member of the pilot, he had departed from Los Alamos, N.M., about 1930, and flew to Santa Fe, where he bought fuel.
The third annual Hanover Aviation Show drew an impressive 100,000 visitors to Langenhagen Airport, West Germany, to see the products of 170 manufacturers from eight countries, including the United States and communist Czechoslovakia. The accent was on light, low-cost business aircraft. Swiss STOL, PC-6 Porter by Pilatus has a 340-hp supercharged Lycoming and carries five persons or 1,100 pounds of freight. It cruises at 125 mph, stalls at 45 mph and has an average sea-level, still-air takeoff of 394 feet.
