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.
Wheels Up, the recently established and rapidly growing private membership and aviation services company, is teaming with Cessna's CitationAir operation to offer flights on Cessna Citation Excel and Sovereign jets. Details of the agreement announced Dec. 13 must still be hashed out, but Wheels Up will market flights aboard the Cessna business jets, while CitationAir will operate them. The aircraft will be outfitted with the Wheels Up blue and white livery and have refurbished interiors.
Astronics Corporation's Max-Viz Enhanced Vision System was selected as standard equipment aboard the Simplex Aerospace SkyCannon and Fire Attack systems. The SkyCannon is a helicopter-mounted system for firefighters. The Max-Viz system will enable operators of Simplex firefighting equipment to see through smoke while fighting high-rise fires. The Fire Attack system supports data acquisition of door operation, hover pump activation and foam pump activation, all correlated with aircraft GPS position.
