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.
Hammonds' Model G-90 ODAT (Omni-Directional Aircraft Transporter) brings a new dimension to ground service equipment, according to the manufacturer. The towbar-less transporter can be quickly transformed into a towbar tractor and a ramp maintenance vehicle that handles full-size snow plows and rotary brooms. It can be connected to a standard Hammonds G Series tractor with towing capacities from 30,000 pounds to 90,000 pounds.
The new two-inch Mini Gyro from Mid-Continent Instruments will serve as backup to the primary avionics suite of the Garmin and Executive Beechcraft C90 King Air G-1000 retrofit and Avidyne's Alliant King Air 200 program. The gyro is an electric, self-contained instrument that provides the pilot with a horizon reference during IMC. It's capable of being used as a primary or standby artificial horizon in fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. With an average lifespan of 2,500 hours, the Mini Gyro is an ideal backup unit, according to Mid-Continent.
The private pilot and four passengers were fatally injured when a Cessna T303 collided with terrain near Rolling Prairie, Ind. It was IMC at the time of the accident. The aircraft was transporting employees of Two Rivers Marketing back to Iowa following a business meeting. The pilot was in contact with South Bend departure control and did not communicate that he was having any problems. Preliminary radar data indicate the airplane climbed to approximately 5,700 feet after takeoff and entered into a left spiral until radar data were lost.
