Frank Talks About The Future of The R44, Helo Training, The
Silver State Fiasco, And More!
Life has been good for Frank Robinson and the R22/44/66 family.
After years of building expertise throughout the helicopter
industry, Frank Robinson set out several decades ago to do what
they said could not be done... create a powerful new civil
helicopter company. He did it... and probably did so beyond even
his own imaginings.
For example, as 2007 was coming to a close, the folks at
Robinson Helicopter Company achieved another milestone when their
8000th helicopter was flight certified. The new, solid green,
Robinson R44 Raven II S/N 11984 was ordered by SkySales Aviation
(Christchurch, New Zealand) for a private owner.
In the past few months, RHC played host to a visit by President
Bush... no doubt attracted by RHC's exceptional overseas helicopter
sales... making them a major aerospace exporter and a great place
to do a little 'politicking.' In RHC, White House staffers chose an
appropriate location for President Bush to hawk the benefits of
foreign trade since Robinson Helicopters sells 70 percent of its
production overseas. A point hammered home by the President.
"You can't tell the people at Robinson Helicopter that trade
isn't good," Bush said Wednesday. "When 70% of that which you
manufacture gets sold somewhere else other than the United States,
they ought to have a sign walking in here and say, 'Trade is not
only good, it is great; and we want the federal government to make
it easier for us to sell products.'"
Better yet, work continues on Frank's next design... the Rolls
Royce RR300 powered turbine helicopter...a first for RHC.
Robinson Helicopter Company was founded in 1973. The first R22
was delivered in October 1979. In 1993, the R44 came online and is
now the best selling helicopter in the world. The R44 is offered in
two models: The Raven I and the more powerful Raven II. The Raven
II is available in four specialty configurations: Police
Helicopter, Newscopter, Clipper, and IFR Trainer. Robinson
Helicopter Company is the world’s leading manufacturer of
civil helicopters.
Aero-TV Gets A Lift As Frank Robinson Talks About
His Heli-Future
About Aero-TV: It's DEFINITELY Show
Time!!!!
OK, folks, so far, so good... earlier this year
we initiated the first feature programming series for
Aero-TV... we decided to take it slow, but we also tried
a steady approach to building the aviation world's most
innovative news and information service. We hope you
understand that this is the most complex media program we've
ever undertaken and what you're seeing is just the tip of the
iceberg... but from here on out, we will be doing our best to
educate, inform, and entertain YOU about all aspects of the
exciting worlds of aviation and aerospace.
And yes, there is MUCH MORE to come... and soon.
If you've been an observer of the media and associated media
industries over the last few years, it's not hard to mistake the
fact that a massive revolution is taking place. Old sources for
news and information are falling by the wayside, having to change
their modus operandi or risk obsolescence (or extinction).
Electronic media and print media are both under the assault of
progress, and the online world has been a cornerstone for
revolutionary change.
Part of this amazing process is the fact that we're been
building and planning a massive new organization within ANN. That
said,
we're hiring talented new people as fast as we can find
them (a far more difficult task than we had
imagined -- REALLY good people are hard to find), and we're
brainstorming at speeds that would make a deorbiting Space Shuttle
feel like a slug. Suffice it to say that we wanted to do this
right, rather than right-now, and that the development of this
program has been the most carefully pursued undertaking we've ever
undertaken.
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complete feature shown above is embedded in this
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otherwise available on the main Aero-TV
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aggressively over the next few weeks). The ability to embed a
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now, to implement in different phases of the initial release
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Corkey Fornof, Checks Out The Latest in Life-Raft
Technologies, Checks Out More "HIGH" Tech at I/ITSEC
2007, Hears From AOPA On Critical Aviation Issues, Spills Some
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