Light, low-cost data recorders could boost global efforts to improve helicopter safety

www.flightglobal.com | Sep 22, 2008

The European Helicopter Safety Team (EHEST) says a lack of safety data is hindering its efforts to gather the information that would allow it to develop a strategy for improving industry-wide helicopter safety performance. Meanwhile lightw

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Curtiss-Wright Eyes VMETRO

feeds.feedburner.com | Aug 29, 2008

Curtiss-Wright Corp., Roseland, N.J., has signaled its intent to acquire embedded computing provider VMETRO, of Norway, by acquiring 100 percent of its outstanding stock. The offer of 12.06 Norwegian kroner, or $2.25, per share, values VMETRO at $51.7 million. In an Aug. 25 announcement,

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DEVICE MAKER WILL STAY; County incentives help 'black box' compan...

www.airportbusiness.com | Aug 27, 2008

L-3 Aviation Recorders, a division of New York-based L-3 Communications that makes the so-called "black boxes" for the airline industry, said Monday that it is expanding its headquarters off Cattlemen Road in Sarasota County from 100,000 to 135,000 square feet.

http://www.airportbusiness.com/online/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=22248

Madrid Crash Update

www.avweb.com | Aug 25, 2008

Voice and data recorders have been retrieved (but the data recorder has been damaged) from the Spanair MD 82 that crashed last week

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/spanair_madrid_crash_update_198653-1.html

Georgia-Pacific - Educational in Nature - The Forester's Job

forester could not possibly measure every tree in the forest, but by learning about parts of the forest and measuring select trees, it helps them understand the entire forest. In the early days of forestry, they had to calculate all the information by hand.

http://www.gp.com/educationalinnature/forester/tfjtools.html

1987 | 0244 | Flight Archive

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On the record Will new developments in flight data recorders, driven by the desire for routine data extraction and analysis, conflict with the needs of the accident investigators? Harry Hopkins inv

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1987/1987%20-%200244.html

SAE International

Announcing the first SAE online community: an internet discussion forum on the technology of Event Data Recorders (EDR).

http://www.sae.org/

NTSB - 2004 Press Releases

March 12, 2004 - NTSB Launches Team to Investigate Fatal Bus Crash in South Carolina Involving U.S.

http://www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/prsrel2004.htm