Harry Weisberger
Contributor

Since 1986 Harry Weisberger has been a contributor to Aviation International News and a regular member of its HAI and NBAA convention news editorial staff. He was previously a marketing communications specialist for Sperry Flight Systems in Phoenix, providing information involving the general aviation, airline, defense and space market segments. His aviation journalism activity has also included writing and editing for Flight Training, Business Aviation Safety Journal, Private Pilot and Arizona Flyways (for whom he interviewed Barry Goldwater and Paul Tibbets. He has also contributed to Smithsonian Air & Space and Aero magazines. He served 5-1/2 years on active duty with the U.S. Navy as a radar intercept officer in F4 Phantom jet fighters, followed by Naval Air Reserve duty as a patrol plane navigator. Weisberger’s journalism career began at the Santa Ana Register (now Orange County Register) where he was a beat reporter and copy desk editor. He holds a commercial pilot license with instrument rating, has logged 1,980 pilot hours and has owned or been a partner in five general aviation aircraft.

Latest from Harry Weisberger

Trimble Official Disputes LightSquared GPS Claims

The Coalition to ‘Save Our GPS’ has responded to claims by LightSquared.

GE’s IVHM Advances Fault Detection

GE Aviation has been awarded two contracts from Gulfstream Aerospace.
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Aircraft

Ruag Shows Off NextGen Dornier Do228NG

Ruag Aerospace Services presents an example of something sort of old and something quite new, the Dornier DO 228NG multi-mission turboprop.
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Avionics

Elbit Delivers 1,000th EVS

Elbit Systems of America’s Kollsman Commercial Aviation unit is celebrating delivery of its 1,000th infrared enhanced vision system (EVS).
Aircraft

Eclipse To Restart Production of VLJs in 2013

Eclipse will restart production of very light jets in 2013.
Avionics

ViaSat-1 Comm Satellite Launch Set for October 19

ViaSat-1 has planned coverage of North America and Hawaii carrying WildBlue services for the U.S. and Xplomet in Canada.
Avionics

VT Miltope Adds Wireless Access to Bizjet Cabins

VT Miltope is featuring, here at the NBAA show, a network product family with the functionality to create custom airborne systems in the same way business
Aircraft

 MU-2s Keep On Flying

Barrington Irving, the youngest pilot and the first African American to fly solo around the world, will welcome 50 students from Las Vegas’s Rancho High Sc
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Lord Controls Active Vibration, Shock and Noise

Lord Corp. showcases products and services

No Plane, No Gain Follows New Course

For many years, but especially since leaders of the big three U.S.

Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Makes Its Helicopter Debut in Sikorsky S-61

The Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite, long a staple in fixed-wing aircraft, has made its first rotorcraft appearance, in a Sikorsky S-61 retrofi

Heli-Expo 2011: Top Leadership Changes at Dart Helicopter Services

The leadership team at Dart Helicopter Services has changed.

LAPD pursues radio upgrades

The Los Angeles Police Department is continuing an intensive avionics upgrade campaign for its air operation with selection of an airborne radio package fr

Heli-Expo 2011: Bell Signs with Van Horn for Tail Rotor Blades

Bell Helicopter and Van Horn Aviation (Booth No.

Heli-Expo 2011: Unmanned K-Max Deploying to Afghanistan this Summer

Two Kaman K-Max Aerial Trucks configured for unmanned operation are being prepared for delivery this summer to meet the urgent resupply requirements of U.S

Heli-Expo 2011: FAA Drops Decertification Case Against Phoenix Heliparts

  The FAA has agreed to drop its decertification case against Phoenix Heliparts in return for the Mesa, Ariz., repair facility withdrawing its

Heli-Expo 2011: Sandel Helitaws To Add Wire Alerting

Sandel Avionics is demonstrating the wire-strike prevention feature it is adding to its HeliTaws terrain-avoidance system.

Heli-Expo 2011: Cool City Avionics Plans To Build Autopilots for Light Helicopters

Cool City Avionics wants to create a light helicopter autopilot market. Named after the Texas city near Mineral Wells where it is located, Cool City Avioni

Phoenix Firm Able To Offer Big Savings

Able Aerospace, a Phoenix-based specialist in overhaul and repair of rotorcraft parts and components, explained how PHI achieved significant savings using

Heli-Expo 2011: New Electronic Engine Display Adds Value to Soloy Engine Conversion for AS350B2

A shiny red-and-white Eurocopter AS350B2, newly converted to Honeywell LTS-101-700D2 turbine power, dominates Soloy Aviation’s exhibit here at Heli-Expo201

Cobham to outfit LA Law

Cobham will provide synthetic vision-based EFIS to retrofit the Eurocopter and Bell fleets of the Los Angeles Police and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dep

AAR Airlift Adds Two Sikorsky S-92s to Its DOD Fleet

AAR Airlift, one of the largest providers of intra-theater transport for U.S.

Sandel display update Kiowa panel

The Australian Army has chosen Sandel Avionics’ four-inch flat-panel primary flight and navigation displays to upgrade its fleet of Bell 206B/OH-58 Kiowa h

EVS vs NVG: Both better

The adoption of infrared imaging enhanced vision systems (EVS) in rotary-wing applications has been slow because of a common misconception, that night safe
Aircraft

Tight credit revamps face of aircraft financing

For prospective buyers of business aircraft there’s good news and not so good news.

The good news is that there are some great bargains on pre-o
Maintenance and Modifications

Timken Expands Mesa Aftermarket Facility

Timken recently expanded its aerospace aftermarket facility in Mesa, Ariz., with offerings aimed primarily at the turbine-powered civil and military rotorc