Following the completion of the ground work to prepare the Brookley Aeroplex site for building construction, Airbus’ A320 Family Assembly Line began taking shape yesterday as the first steel column was raised to a vertical position. The steel support, rising 100 feet into the air, is the first of many that will form the frame … Dowiedz się więcej
Alitalia and Delta launched a special airfare offer for travel on their direct code-share flights from Milan Malpensa to New York JFK. Economy class fares start at € 498 (taxes and fees included) and must be ticketed by October 1st 2013 for travel on Alitalia or Delta flights from October 1st, 2013 thru April 15th, … Dowiedz się więcej
Aurora Flight Sciences announced today it has been selected by NASA for a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 1 project to develop a rapid buoyancy modulation system (BMS) for a hot air, or Montgolfiere, balloon operating on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Balloons are potentially useful vehicles for exploration in the dense atmosphere of … Dowiedz się więcej
Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC), a joint venture between Airbus and its Chinese partners, has started to deliver elevators for the Airbus A350 XWB programme. A ceremony was held today in Harbin for the delivery of the first ship set of elevators. The elevators manufactured at HMC are delivered to Spain-based Aernnova Aerospace … Dowiedz się więcej
On September 11, 2013 at 23.23 hrs UTC, a Rockot launcher successfully deployed 3 Russian government Gonets-D1M satellites into an orbit of about 1500 km altitude and 82.5 degrees inclination from the designated Rockot launch site Plesetsk Cosmodrome. This was the eighth launch of a Rockot with the Breeze-KM upper stage for the Russian government … Dowiedz się więcej
Christoph Franz, Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, has told Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, that he will not be available to renew his contract when it expires on 31 May 2014. “After a total of nearly 15 years in the Lufthansa Group, this was not an easy … Dowiedz się więcej