Dubai Airshow – Bombardier Commercial Aircraft confirmed today [08.11] that Riga, Latvia-based Air Baltic Corporation AS (airBaltic) will be the first customer to operate the CS300 aircraft when it takes delivery in the second half of 2016. The Latvian flag carrier has 13 CS300 aircraft on firm order and retains options for seven CS300 aircraft. … Dowiedz się więcej
Dubai Airshow – Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that the CS100 aircraft flight test program is close to 100 per cent complete. Only a few tests remain to be completed and Bombardier is on track to have the aircraft certified this year with Transport Canada. Bombardier also announced that function and reliability (F&R) testing on … Dowiedz się więcej
Sentinel-3A’s preparation is finished and the satellite will soon be shipped to the Russian Cosmodrome of Plesetsk, in Northern Russia for its launch on top of a Rockot planned end of this year. Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments, Sentinel-3 is set to play a key role in Copernicus, the world’s largest environmental monitoring programme … Dowiedz się więcej
Finavia, the Finnish airport operator, has raised the passenger experience at Rovaniemi Airport to a whole new level. Airports in Lapland are eagerly awaiting the busiest winter season which is looking better than in years when measured by the number of bookings. Finavia has invested nearly EUR 20 million in Lapland’s airports in 2014–2015. The … Dowiedz się więcej
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced today [08.11] the signature of a letter of intent (LOI) with BGS Corporation, a Bell Helicopter independent representative, for two Bell 525s. “The Bell 525 is unique in that it is designed to perform a diverse mission set more cost effectively than any aircraft available on the … Dowiedz się więcej
ESA’s Mars Express has shed new light on the Red Planet’s rare ultraviolet aurora by combining for the first time remote observations with in situ measurements of electrons hitting the atmosphere. On Earth, auroras are often-spectacular light shows at high northern and southern polar latitudes as the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field. As … Dowiedz się więcej