As executive editor of MRO and business aviation, Lee Ann Shay directs Aviation Week's coverage of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including Inside MRO, and business aviation, including BCA.
She won the World Leadership Forum’s Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in 2009 (propulsion category) and in 2002 (maintenance category), and has been a finalist in other years. In 2017, Lee Ann won the Aerospace Media Awards' Best Future Tech submission.
She holds a B.A. in English and political science from Luther College and an M.A. in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University.
DALLAS—An accurate way to sum up the overall mood at AVIATION WEEK’s MRO Americas Conference & Exhibition would be “cautiously optimistic.” There seems to be a sense of hunkering down and really scrutinizing business to make it as efficient as possible, as well as creating services to provide customers more value and more choices. As SR Technics’ CEO Bernd Kessler said, “There’s nothing like a crisis to drive change.”
Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions in the Netherlands is working with the International Centre for Emergency Techniques to use real aircraft to train fire fighters and rescue workers. The used aircraft should provide better training vehicles than old buses and cars, which are typically used to simulate aircraft crashes, got rescue training in the aviation sector. AELS will supply the training aircraft and dismantle them using high environmental standards once the crash simulation is complete.
BEIJING—The Australian Transport Safety Bureau added a second, similar incident to its investigation of the Oct. 7, 2008, uncommanded nose-down pitch event involving a Qantas Airbus A330-300. The safety panel expects to issue a preliminary report this month. Both incidents involved faults with air data inertial reference units (ADIRUs), and both occurred off the West Coast of Australia, where the U.S. and Australian navies operate a low-frequency radio communications station.
