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.
H3R Aviation, Inc., makers of halon and halon-alternative portable fire extinguishers, teamed with Aviall at October’s NBAA to promote a halon-alternative fire extinguisher. The H3R Aviation Model 674 is a 150-pound wheeled Halotron 1 fire extinguisher. According to the company, it is the world’s most powerful halon-alternative flight-line fire extinguisher. Also on display was the B394TS, the only Halotron 1 clean agent fire extinguisher approved by the FAA for use onboard aircraft. Both units have been tested to ANSI/UL 711 and UL 2129.
Legendary Jets , Tempe, Ariz., announced the hiring of Shad English as vice president of Sales with responsibility for the development and advancement of the firm’s GO JET card program as well as sales of full and fractional jet ownership programs.
Embraer , Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, announced the following changes in the company’s organizational structure effective Jan. 1, 2009: Retiring Antonio Luiz Pizarro Manso, executive vice president, Finance and CFO, and Satoshi Yokota, executive vice president, Strategic Planning and Technology Development, will be succeeded, respectively, by Luiz Carlos Siqueira Aguiar and Emilio Kazunoli Matsuo, members of Embraer’s senior management team.
