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.
Hobart Ground Systems, Palmetto, Fla., named Simon Fraser to the role of Business Unit manager for Hobart Ground Systems in Florida and J&B Aviation in Santa Rosa, Calif. He will also oversee the operations of Houchin/ITW GSE UK in the U.K.
A young American company is reporting steady progress in its development of a water-cooled, six-cylinder, twin-turbocharged 350-hp “Flat-V” diesel engine intended to replace gasoline power plants on light general aviation aircraft and for use in unmanned aerial vehicles. Engineered Propulsion Systems, Inc. (EPS) says its Vision 350 has now undergone heat-load and high- altitude tests, along with vibration testing when fitted with aluminum Hartzell props.
FAA is proposing issuing an Airworthiness Directive requiring repetitive inspections and eventual replacement of cylinders made by Engine Components Inc. (ECi) and Airmotive found on 6,000 Continental 520 and 550 aircraft engines. Total cost of compliance could reach $82.6 million. The agency says the proposal, issued Aug. 12, stems from numerous reports of cylinder head-to-barrel separations, and cracked and leaking aluminum heads. ECi, objects, saying premature top overhauls could result in engine failure.
