Inserting/manipulating PDF in Flex 3 AIR project?

I've read as much as I can find about dropping a PDF into my
Flex 3 AIR project, but the information is scarce and I understand
it's a very new (not fully baked) feature.
Can anyone describe what component to use to drop a PDF into
my AIR project? I need to manipulate the PDF from within AIR and
would prefer not to abstract through the HTML Container object
(e.g. calling JS through the HTML Container object).
Thanks,
Mike

looks like your equipmentArray is empty. Put a breakpoint inside that method to see if there is any data.

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