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Nov 5, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
More powerful and robust onboard technology is transforming the way that pilots and crew view and interpret the world around them. The reduction in the size, weight, power consumption and cost (SWaP-C) of the equipment available to operators while increasing the resolution, fidelity and processing power means that more special missions are being significantly enhanced.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
This year, Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) organized and hosted the first ever Medi-Connect Conference, an event focused on pre-hospital emergency care, which brought together pre-hospital healthcare professionals and experts to shape the future of emergency first responders. The conference was held at Exeter Racecourse, supported by headline partners SES and ZOLL.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) launched the world’s first burn nursing specialty certification one year ago and reports that there are now nearly 500 practicing nurses with the CBRN credential in both civilian and military settings, including many flight nurses. Burns are among the most devastating and complex injuries, and research shows that burn care expertise contributes to high-quality care and optimal patient outcomes.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
On 23 September 2024, ARTS started technical crew training for four Namibians destined to become SAR winch crew. Ian Bonthrone, Managing Director of ARTS, stated that this was a first for the country of Namibia. The four students have previously completed initial crew resource management, fire and smoke, survival and dinghy drills, and helicopter underwater egress training (HUET) with compressed air emergency breathing system (CAEBS) prior to commencing ground school.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first H175 helicopter to the aviation force of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau (GZP). It will join GZP’s fleet, which already includes two H145 helicopters that were delivered in 2016 and 2019, and have accumulated a total of 3,200 flight hours.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
Airbus Helicopters has been awarded a contract for 12 H225M military variant multi-role helicopters by the Republic of Iraq. The contract was signed in Baghdad by the Minister of Defense of Iraq, Thabet al-Abbassi, in the presence of the French Ambassador, Patrick Durel.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
At the request of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, the Tennessee National Guard have provided four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and crews from Knoxville’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion to support wildfire response in the national park. The Tennessee National Guard helicopters departed from McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base with buckets to drop hundreds of gallons of water on wildfires.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
After being paralyzed in an incident while flying a Tornado with the Royal Air Force (RAF), you learnt to fly fixed-wing aircraft again. You were then approached by King Hussein of Jordan to help prepare a program to train helicopter pilots who had also been paralyzed. What gave you the confidence to take on this additional challenge? Stewart McQuillan: I’d had a number of years between coming out medically from the RAF with my injury and trying to work out how to rebuild my life.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
Airborne Technologies and Smith MyersARTEMIS+ integration on De Havilland Twin Otter Aircraft with Airborne LINX workstation for a European law enforcement agencyAirborne Technologies and Smith Myers announced the award of another integration contract that will see Airborne Technologies equip a De Havilland Twin Otter aircraft with a complete sensor suite and two state-of-the-art Airborne LINX workstations for a European law enforcement agency.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
airmedandrescue.com | Jon Adams
What made you join the Devon Air Ambulance Trust (DAAT)? It was a chance to join a well-respected Devon-based charity in a role that encouraged development and trying new ideas as part of the retail management team. The role allowed commercial development within charity retail, knowing that the profit you’re making is going towards something so life-affirming and important to the people of Devon – very few retail jobs allowed me to feel quite as much job satisfaction.
