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.
New Zealand-based aircraft tracking company spidertracks has launched spiderwatch, a flight following component that actively watches over every flight. The company is positioning the system as an alternative to ELTs. Spiderwatch is automatically turned on when the aircraft accelerates through 40 knots. This tells the system to “actively monitor the flight. If the spider tracking device loses power, the system loses contact with the spider, triggering text and e-mail alerts to be automatically sent to recipients designated by the user.
Sherwin-Williams Aerospace has expanded its global presence to meet increasing demand in Asia and the Pacific Rim by adding new authorized distributors in China and Australia. The new distributors include Shen Zhen Lubair Aerospace Co., Ltd., with two locations in Shen Zhen, China, and Pacific Dynamics in Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia. They will offer Sherwin-Williams’ entire range of aerospace products including Jet Glo, Acry Glo, Jet Glo Express and Jet Flex. The company’s new product, Fill Bond aerospace putty, also will be offered. Price: Varies
EMS SATCOM’s new single SwiftBroadband channel eNfusion HSD-Xi high-speed data terminal adds one SwiftBroadband and one Swift 64 channel to the company’s HSD-440 high-speed data transceiver. The combined system becomes a dual-channel SwiftBroadband system. The new transceiver has an External Software Configuration Module (ESCM) that holds one standard USIM card. This provides secure subscriber information for SwiftBroadband operation. The HSD-440 transceiver combines SwiftBroadband cabin services and cockpit/safety service on an aircraft using a single 8 MCU unit.
