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Uvex has added a selection of reading magnifiers to its line of FitLogic Safety Eyewear, ideal for workers who require magnification for fine detail work, reading or inspection. With an aging workforce, more safety directors are finding the need to add safety eyewear with reading magnifiers to their offering. Individual bifocal readers are molded onto […]

Unison Industries unveiled its new Autolite Annie website, AutoliteAnnie.com, at EAA AirVenture. The new website, an extension of Unison’s piston products section on its corporate website (UnisonIndustries.com), will focus on Unison’s Autolite Aviation Spark Plugs product line and its logo icon Autolite Annie. The website gives information not only about the company’s spark plus, but […]

LoPresti Aviation Corp. unveiled its new expanded line of Hi-Intensity Landing and Taxi Lights at AirVenture 2005. Already a standard in GA, the LoPresti “Boom Beam” is original equipment on Cirrus, Lancair, Adam and Raytheon products. Newly available is Boom Beam 50LC, which provides more than 750,000 lumens of Xenon lighting — 50% more than […]

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has published its 2005 annual survey of general aviation service employee compensation. The survey includes salaries and benefits for pilots, line-service personnel, maintenance technicians, dispatchers, inspectors, customer service representatives and more. Employees’ compensation is broken down by geographic region of the country, by the company’s gross sales, by size of […]

PilotMall.com Aviation Superstore is now shipping a new line of fabric pilot bags. The line includes bags of all sizes. Each bag has several features designed to enhance cockpit organization. PilotMall.com, which offers more than 1,500 aviation products, has been designing soft leather pilot bags since 1999. The fabric bags range in price from $24.99 […]

The Hearing Safety Group of Bacou-Dalloz has partnered with Lightspeed Aviation of Portland, Ore., to develop a new generation of hearing protection headsets. Lightspeed will manufacture the new line utilizing the Hearing Safety Group’s platform and aspects of its proprietary communications technology. The products will be marketed jointly by Bacou-Dalloz and Lightspeed. The new Precision […]

Coming mid-November 2005, Zaon Flight Systems, designer and manufacturer of the TrafficScope line of portable collision avionics, will release two new models. TrafficScope XRX is a stand-alone portable device to sense aircraft direction from within the cockpit. XRX displays “3-D View” quadrant bearing information, as well as relative altitude and range, all from inside the […]

The Hawker 800 has up to 2,800 statute miles range and a maximum cruise speed of 478 miles per hour. The jet can seat up to eight passengers, has a stand-up cabin and enclosed aft lavatory. The in-flight entertainment system includes a CD and DVD/VCR player. Mayo Aviation, at Centennial Airport in Englewood, Colo., has […]

Buck Rogers owned one and so did James Bond. The amazing rocketbelt — a rocket-powered flying backpack — was a science fiction gadget that actually became reality, built and flown for the U.S. Army in the early 1960s. The device eventually became a lucrative entertainment attraction, appearing in the James Bond movie “Thunderball,” and at […]