Civil aviation

Aeroflot Offers 20% Discount On Air Tickets To Russia’s Far East

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Aeroflot reduces by 20% all economy fares for the flights from Moscow to the cities of Russian Far East: Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The discount will apply to the tickets on sale from September 18 and untill the end of 2013. This is yet another action of Russia’s leading airline aiming to help people of the region that suffered from disastrous floods. «A natural disaster demands … Dowiedz się więcej

Boeing Announces Montana Site Expansion and 787-10 Work

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Boeing (NYSE: BA) will  expand its manufacturing site in Helena, Mont. by nearly 50 percent to support demand for Boeing commercial airplanes and new work for the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner. Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Jim McNerney, joined by Senator Max Baucus and GovernorSteve Bullock, made the announcement today at the Montana Jobs Summit in Butte. The nearly $35 million expansion will add … Dowiedz się więcej

Next Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral for Launch

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Boeing [NYSE: BA] workers lift the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-5 satellite onto a transporter following its Aug. 1 arrival at the Navstar Processing Facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Boeing shipped the fifth GPS IIF satellite from its satellite factory in El Segundo, Calif., on a U.S. Air Force C-17 airlifter. Workers … Dowiedz się więcej

Air Canada Named Canada’s Preferred Airline by Frequent Business Travellers in Ipsos Reid Survey

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Air Canada has been named Canada’sfavourite airline for business travel in the Ipsos Reid Business Traveller Survey. AirCanada was preferred by 81 per cent of Canadian frequent business travellers surveyed for 2013, an improvement of 12 percentage points in Air Canada’s ratings in the national survey over the past five years. „Air Canada is proud to be named Canada’s preferred airline … Dowiedz się więcej

Northrop Grumman-Built Payload for Third Advanced EHF Satellite

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A Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)-built payload launched aboard the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite Sept. 18 is on a course to make protected military space communications more resilient once it reaches a designated orbit and is integrated into a constellation. „We congratulate Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance and the U.S. Air Force for … Dowiedz się więcej

PurePower® Engine Powers Bombardier CSeries First Flight: 'You Could Hardly Hear The Take-Off’

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Pratt & Whitney’s PurePower engine successfully powered Bombardier’s new CSeries* airplane for its maiden flight on Monday. The PW1500G engine, which achieved engine certification from Transport Canada in February, is the first of six new engine programs using Pratt & Whitney’s Geared Turbofan™ architecture to power an aircraft. Coverage of the first flight – with engine-related quotes … Dowiedz się więcej