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

Two LTS101 AStars handed to customers

Penetration of the Honeywell LTS101 turboshaft into the civil market continued yesterday at Heli-Expo’06 as Heli-Lynx Helicopter Services conveyed two AS 3

Turbomeca continues U.S. ‘invasion’

French turbine helicopter engine manufacturer Turbomeca, coming off a record production year in 2005, is at Heli-Expo’06 working to secure a beachhead in i

Honeywell sensors help Bell 429 stay right side up

Bell Helicopter has selected a variety of Honeywell avionics for its light-twin Model 429, highlighted by the new solid-state KSG-7200 air-data attitude he

Bellemare bullish on P&WC’s prospects

The big news from Pratt & Whitney Canada at HeliExpo’05 in Anaheim, Calif., was the announcement of the launch of the PW210S turboshaft engine program.

Dallas Airmotive expands at Lafayette

Dallas Airmotive is at Heli-Expo’06 (Booth No.
Avionics

Advanced-vision concept inches closer to reality

The possibility of business jets and airliners making autonomous low-visibility approaches and landings to airports without an ILS has moved closer to real
Avionics

SE-Vision pairs EVS with synthetic vision

Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins and Max-Viz of Portland, Ore., have teamed to begin flight tests aboard an FAA aircraft of a guidance system inte
Aircraft

Primus Epic CDS/R Certified in Avanti

Honeywell, headquartered in Morristown, N.J., has found homes for its newest EFIS retrofit, the Primus Epic CDS/R cockpit, in Canada and Germany.
Avionics

Satcom antenna targets smaller bizjets

EMS Satcom has revealed the newest addition to its eNfusion suite of airborne wireless communication products that the company promises will bring Internet
Avionics

IS&S announces Citation cockpit retrofit programs

Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S), an Exton, Pa.
Avionics

Universal’s Vision 1 SVS certified in King Air 350

After years of development, Universal Avionics of Tucson, Ariz., has gained its first STC and TSO for its full Vision 1 synthetic-vision system (SVS), clea
Regulations and Government

NBAA rallies troops for fight against user fees

The nation’s major airlines have declared war on business aviation and, as the weapon to win that war, they intend to push for ATC user fees to be levied u
Regulations and Government

Special routes for ‘quiet’ aircraft over Grand Canyon?

The FAA has issued a final rule establishing a class of “quiet technology” aircraft to fly commercial tours over Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP).
Avionics

IR cited by some as a key to improving EMS safety

Since 1999, the North American aero-medical transport industry, particularly its helicopter EMS community, has become increasingly introspective regarding
Engines

Rolls-Royce CorporateCare program grows

Rolls-Royce is reporting growth of its CorporateCare power-by-the-hour engine maintenance program, saying that it has signed more than 120 contracts this y
Aircraft

Honeywell’s TFE731-50 to power Hawker 900XP

Honeywell’s turbine engine folks are poised for show and tell about something new from something old–the time-tested TFE731 turbofan family–and something a
Avionics

Sandel’s ‘hi-def’ EHSI lights cockpit with LEDs

Light-emitting diodes (LED) as the backlighting source for glass avionics? Thanks to a patented design from Sandel Avionics, that’s precisely what the Vist

UVTripPlanner gets a new look

Universal Weather and Aviation is unveiling several new services and tools here at NBAA’06 at Booth No.

Arinc Direct to support Piaggio’s Avanti line

Arinc Direct’s FAA Part 145 certified repair station at the Scottsdale, Ariz.
Aircraft

Pilatus reveals upgraded PC-12

Pilatus chose Honeywell’s Sunday evening media event to announce a Next Generation PC-12 featuring a more powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada turboprop engine
Engines

Honeywell enters 10K thrust zone

On the eve of NBAA 2006, Honeywell made it official that it is developing technology and hardware toward launch of a 10,000-pound-thrust turbofan engine fo
Avionics

Dassault selects CMC EFB for its Falcon family line

CMC Electronics (Booth No.
Avionics

CMC’s receiver supports WAAS technology

CMC Electronics is displaying its latest aviation GPS receiver here at the show, incorporating wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) technology.
Engines

PW617F Logs Phenom-enal First Flight

Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) has successfully completed the maiden flight of its PW617F engine, selected to power the Embraer Phenom 100 very light jet (VL
Avionics

Firms melding EVS with SVS

Chelton Flight Systems (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Thrane & Thrane demos broadband unit

Dassault and satcom hardware manufacturer Thrane & Thrane (Booth No.