The items that found their way into my bag.Aside from seeing and learning about what’s new in the industry and meeting old and new friends, one of the best parts of attending a large conference is accepting promotional items offered by the exhibitors.
In the last in a series of articles about the HAI Heli-Expo last week in Dallas, today we have examples of some of the items that the 590 exhibitors in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center were giving away.
PHII was surprised that a few companies had full-blown fancy coffee systems run by baristas. Quite a few had high-quality cookies and small candy bars. Of course most of the exhibitors that had any promotional items had writing instruments.
Here is a list of items that found their way into my bag (which you can see in the photo at the top of this article):
- Pens:
- AAR
- Turbopower
- Recoil Aerospace
- Helicopter Association International
- Columbia Helicopters
- ACES
- United Rotorcraft
- Aero Performance
- Miraj (with folding wings)
- Multi-tool, Recoil
- Clips:
- LMS
- Sunvair
- Turbopower
- Foam helicopter, Americase
- Fabric sunglasses bag, PSI
- Fidget spinner, Timberline Helicopters
- Water, Schweizer
- Luggage tag
- Helicopter Association International
- (unknown, possibly Donaldson Filtration Systems, since they laminated my card on wrong side of the tag)
- T-shirts
- Donaldson
- SkyQuest Aviation
- Metro Aviation
- Cookie, with chocolate logo, Metro Aviation
- Desktop cell phone holder, Isolair Helicopter Systems
Shirts — Donaldson, SkyQuest Aviation, & Metro Aviation… and Molly.Awards:
Coolest single item
Metro Aviation, cookie, chocolate on one side bearing their logo.
Metro Aviation cookie, chocolate on one side bearing the company’s logo.Coolest single item, honorable mention
MIRAJ, pen with folding wings.
MIRAJ Corp., showing a wooden glider and a pen with folding wings. Another photo of the pen is at the top of this article.Overall most impressive giveaway program
Timberline Helicopters. They took the promotional items to a whole different level, at least when measured by the variety and quantity. They had bagels, muffins, cream cheese, fidget spinners, croissants, metal coffee cups, two kinds of water infused with fruit, shirts, coffee, microfiber cloths, key fobs, squirt bottle (for ketchup?), and inflatable tubes (like noise-makers at sports games?).
Timberline HelicoptersMore photos:
Sunvair Aerospace Group
ACES Systems
Baker Industries
CNC Technologies and CTG. CNC was brewing coffee.
Onboard Systems
Duncan Aviation
Heliops’ poster showing various military helicopters and a drone.
Metro Aviation’s poster with an assortment of Airbus EC145C2e helicopters.
Southeast Aerospace
TRI-MAX
QAI AviationEarlier, in Volume 1 and Volume 2 we had photos of the helicopters, interviews with a few of the exhibitors, and a gallery of 17 photos of some of the most prominent exhibitors at the conference.
7 Comments
Hi Bill,
real fascinating article…. I hope you can update it with a competition like ‘Which company served the best cup of coffee during HeliExpo?’ 😉
Sorry, I could not help giving this comment. In fact I am a true fan of your articles in Fire Aviation!
Regards
Gert Mentink
Glad to see pertinant articles to Fire and Aviation. Keep up the Good Work BIll!
What did you take home for Molly?
Tom, I forgot to photograph Timberline Helicopter’s fidget spinner because Molly had claimed it.
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I thought Boeing’s coffee was the best and they had a really cool machine (Ripples) that would stamp their logo on the foam.
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That heliops poster with the evolution of the Hughes 500 is very cool! I’ve got a cup full of dried out ball point pens, Luggage tags and ID lanyards from attending aviation trade shows the past 20 years.
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