Domestic and International Citation Customer Conference

The owners and operators of 4,100 Cessna Citations are invited to attend the 31st Citation Customer Conference in Wichita, Kansas, April 26-28. The conference will focus on technical and special workshop sessions for the owners and operators of the various Citation models In addition to program updates for each model, special interest topics will be presented at the conference. In an effort to cater to its European clientele, Cessna will also conduct maintenance and operations roundtable discussions at the annual EBACE Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 25-27. These discussions will address specific European operator requirements, as well as review the topics presented in April at the Wichita Citation C

Technology Examined For Weather Threat

Looking for ways to prevent air crashes that have claimed hundreds of lives, including '50s singing stars Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, researchers are testing a pair of radars they hope will detect icing conditions. Using the radars together should help determine the amount of tiny droplets of water in the air, too small for most radars, that are colder than freezing but still liquid. Marcia Politovich, director of the icing program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder (CO) said Wednesday that the icing research experiment is continuing through the end of March. The team attached a small Ka-band radar to a large S-band unit, similar to the radars used by the National Weather Service. The researchers ho