westfaironline.com February 27, 2023
AVIATION REVOLUTION DISPLAYED AT WESTCHESTER COUNTY AIRPORT BY PETER KATZ Pkatz@westfairinc.com Passengers patiently waiting to get through security and pilots of corporate jets patiently waiting for their flight plan clearances likely wouldn’t have noticed, but Westchester County Airport quietly earned a place in aviation history recently. The airport was the launching pad for the first demonstration flight of a piloted electric aircraft in the New York Metro area.
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Electric aircraft turns after fly-by with White Plains in background.
An ALIA-250 vertical takeoff and landing electric aircraft manufactured by Beta Technologies of Burlington, Vermont, was used in the demonstration. It was emblazoned with the logo of Blade Air Mobility, which offers helicopter flights as well as fixedwing service at Westchester and other airports. “The advent of electric aircraft is truly revolutionary,” Michelle Tomkiel, Blade’s president and general counsel told the
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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Hospital’s cardiology leader on the fight against heart disease BY PHIL HALL Phall@westfairinc.com
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eart disease is the nation’s leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which noted that one person in
the U.S. dies every 34 seconds from heart disease. In an exclusive interview with the Business Journals, Dr. Christopher Howes, an interventional cardiologist and section head for cardiology at Greenwich Hospital, discussed what can be done to lower the too-high fatality rates created by this medical condition.
We’re coming to the end of February’s Heart Health Month observances, and there are so many programs and information available about heart health. But heart disease is still the number one killer in America. How is this possible when there is so much information out there about how to take care of your heart? Why
are more people dying from heart disease than anything else? Well, that’s certainly a pretty complicated big question. One of the things is atherosclerosis, hardening of arteries, which is a process that increases with age. So, as our population ages and we become an older group, we’re going to have that — and fighting
against this is a little bit like swimming upstream because you’re always getting older. But there are things we can do to decrease that progression and try to affect that overall outcome. One thing to keep in mind: although heart disease remains the top medical condition in our society, the actual mortality
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