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.
In a short preliminary report posted on Aug. 4, the National Transportation Safety Board says the Bell 525 that crashed in a flight test a month earlier broke up in flight.
Airbus Group Innovations has flown its E-Fan proof-of-concept electric aircraft with hybrid propulsion, adding an internal-combustion engine as a range extender.
Quest Aircraft Co. recently completed a 27,000-sq.-ft. expansion of its Sandpoint, Idaho, production facility giving it a total of 110,000 sq. ft. under roof.
