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AIRFRAME/AIRFRAME PARTS & AIRFRAME & AIRFRAME PARTS OVERHAULPARTS AIRFRAME/AIRFRAME Aero Components Inc. PO Box 15730, 5124 Kaltenbrun Rd Ft. Worth TX 76119 817-572-3003 FAX: 817-563-1097 Aero Kool Corporation 1495 SE 10th Ave. Hialeah FL 33010 305-887-6912 www.aerokool.com FAX: 305-885-2828 Toll Free: 800-458-4255 Contact: Rick Weltmann rweltmann@aerokool.com **Inventory Available on ABDonline.com Airborne Technologies, Inc. 999 Avenida Acaso Camarillo CA 93012805-389-3700 Contact: Gary Ferris FAX: 805-389-3708 Repair Station #WY2R283L P.O. Box 2210 Camarillo CA 93011 www.airbornetech.com sales@airbornetech.com Aircraft Ducting Repair 101 Hunters Circle Forney TX 75126 972-552-9000 FAX: 972-552-4504 www.acdri.com repairs@acdri.com
ARINC AEROSPACE CORPORATION 6400 S.E. 59th Street Oklahoma City OK 73135 www.arinc.com/defense 405-605-7184 FAX: 405-601-6029 Contact: Alex Thagard athagard@arinc.com
Defense Technology Equipment, Inc. 45681 Oakbrook Ct., Unit 107-111 Sterling VA 20166 FAX: 703-766-1701 703-766-1700 www.defense-tech.com sales@defense-tech.com ** Inventory Available on abdonline.com Contact: Frank Benzaria Eclipse Aeronautical 2503 E. Riverside Spokane WA 99202 509-536-5000 FAX: 509-535-5555 Floats & Fuel Cells(FFC) 4010 Pilot Drive, Ste: #103 Memphis TN 38118 www.ffcfuelcells.com 901-794-8431 Toll Free: 800-647-6148 FAX: 901-842-7135 FAA Repair Station #TH4R544M Contact: Kevin Brewer kbrewer@ffcfuelcells.com ** Inventory Available on ABDOnline.com Frazier Aviation, Inc. 445 North Fox Street San Fernando CA 91340 FAX: 818-837-9546 818-898-1998 FAA Repair Station #QN3R795L & JAA #5409 www.frazieraviation.com ** Inventory available on abdonline.com HC Pacific 19844 Quiroz Court Walnut CA 91789 909-598-0509 Contact: Cynthia Tubal/Sylvia Sao FAX: 909-598-1411 www.hcpacific.com hcpac@ix.netcom.com **Inventory Available on ABDonline.com
International Precision, Inc. 9526 Vassar Ave. Chatsworth CA 91311 FAX: 818-882-0319 818-882-3933 ISO Group Inc. 7700 Technology Drive West Melbourne FL 32904 www.iso-group.com Garrett Schiefer 321-773-5710 FAX: 321-777-0499 aviationparts@isogroup.com
KELLSTROM INDUSTRIES 3701 Flamingo Rd. Miramar FL 33027 954-538-2448 FAX: 954-538-3210 www.kellstrom.com Contact: Hayley Armstrong info@kellstrom.com Nell-Joy Industries, Inc. 8 Reith St. Copiague NY 11726 631-842-8989 www.nelljoy.com FAX: 631-842-8040 **Inventory Available on ABDonline.com
R & B AIRCRAFT SUPPLY INC. 6848 Farmdale Ave. N. Hollywood CA 91609 Repair Station #ZW3R039M 818-764-3910 FAX: 818-765-2436 roger@rbaircraft.com Contact: Jack Rogers S3 International, LLC. 6110 N Flint Road Milwaukee WI 53209-3716 www.s3international.com 414-351-1506 FAX: 414-351-1543 sales@s3international.com
ANTENNAS/ANTENNA ANTENNAS/ANTENNA SYSTEMS SYSTEMS
GETTING OFF THE GROUND Two American inventive geniuses - one worldfamous, the other little known - took a crack at developing a helicopter. The first, Thomas Edison, failed to get anything off the ground. The second, Emile Berliner, gets credit for the first manned, rotary vertical flight in the United States. Edison began his investigations with an early internal combustion engine that used gun cotton (nitrocellulose) for fuel. This effort caused several engine explosions, destroyed part of his workshop, and seriously burned an assistant. He switched to electric motors but found that they lacked the power needed for successful lift-off and hovering. There, his investigations ended. Despite the failure, Edison's and his colleagues' work provided valuable knowledge about rotor and power-to-weight requirements. Emile Berliner is best known as the virtual founder of the recording industry as he invented and successfully promoted the disk gramophone. He also invented the microphone used in Bell telephones, a new loom design for mass production of cloth, and an effective acoustic tile. Around 1907, Berliner first indulged his interest in helicopters by concentrating on a lightweight engine. Purchasing small, air-cooled rotary automotive engines from the Adams-Farwell plant in Iowa, he improved on the weight and power of the engines and installed two in a primitive fuselage with a lift rotor designed by John Newton Williams. The crude device had to be stabilized by assistants, because it had no control system. But it successfully lifted itself and Williams off the ground by roughly 3 feet. Berliner had introduced the rotary engine to aviation, proving the possibility of powered vertical flight. He later performed the first experiments using a tail rotor to stabilize flight. Sources: J. Gordon Leishman, University of Maryland, http://terpconnect.umd.edu; U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, www.centennialofflight.gov; Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org. .
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AAR Aircraft Component Services-New York 747 Zeckendorf Blvd. Garden City NY 11530 www.aarcorp.com 516-222-9000 FAX: 516-357-2709 Contact: Kristian Norheim New York kristian.norheim@aarcorp.com Cobham Antenna Systems, Inc. 596 Lowell Street Methuen MA 01844 978-557-2497 www.cobham.com FAX: 978-557-2800 Joy Leuis jouy.leuis@cobham.com Fieldtech Avionics & Instruments Inc. 4151 North Main St. Meachan Field Ft. Worth TX 76106 817-625-2719 www.ftav.com FAX: 817-625-6875 4815 N.W. 79th Ave. Suite 10 Miami FL 33166 FAX: 305-593-0694 305-593-9913 ** Inventory Available on abdonline.com Herley Industries, Inc. 3061 Industry Drive Lancaster PA USA 17601 www.herley.com 717-397-2777 FAX: 717-397-7079 Northrop Grumman Corporation 19382 Baywatch Lane Huntington Beach CA 92646 www.northropgrumman.com 818-715-3290 FAX: 818-598-2089
AUXILIARY & APUS APUS AUXILIARYPOWER POWER UNITS UNITS & OVERHAUL OVERHAUL AERO PRECISION INDUSTRIES,LLC. 30 Lindbergh Ave Livermore CA 94551 925-455-9900 www.aeroprecision.com FAX: 925-455-9901 Alturdyne 660 Steele Street El Cajon CA 92020 619-440-5531 FAX: 619-442-0481 www.alturdyne.com Contact: Frank Verbeke BC Systems 200 Belle Meade Rd. Setauket NY 11733 FAX: 631-864-3700 631-864-3700 Canfield Electronics, Inc. 90 Remington Blvd. Ronkonkoma NY 11779 Contact: Ray Zaun 631-585-4100 FAX: 631-585-4200 www.canfieldelectronics.com info@canfieldelectronics.com **Inventory Available on ABDonline.com WWW.ABDONLINE.COM