An Airbus C295W aircraft belonging to the Mexican Navy (SEMAR) and operated by a mixed crew from Airbus Defence and Space and SEMAR has carried out demonstration flights in El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia, one of the airports with the most extreme hot and high conditions in the world. The C295W, which landed at El … Dowiedz się więcej
Airbus Defence and Space and The Coulson Group of Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering the industrialization, supply and support of the new water bomber version of the Airbus C295W transport aircraft. Under the terms of the agreement The Coulson Group of Alberni BC, Canada through its operating company Coulson Aircrane Ltd, will … Dowiedz się więcej
The successful handover of the 75th Pilatus PC-7 MkII Training Aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the Air Force Academy in Dundigal marks the final aircraft delivery milestone under the contract between Pilatus and the Government of India’s Ministry of Defence which was signed on the 24th of May 2012. The introduction of … Dowiedz się więcej
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed certification testing of the A400M new generation airlifter on a grass runway. The tests using the development aircraft MSN2 took place over a three week period at the airfield of Écury-sur-Coole in France in September and examined the aircraft’s behaviour on grass and natural soil runways. The A400M … Dowiedz się więcej
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) completed more than 27,000 hours of simulated flight time on an F-16C Block 50 aircraft and is now analyzing the data to determine the durability of the aircraft beyond its original design service life of 8,000 hours. The F-16C Block 50 was tested to 27,713 Equivalent Flight Hours (EFH) during 32 … Dowiedz się więcej
The first three airborne gunfire bursts from the F-35A’s internal GAU-22/A 25 mm four-barrel gun were successfully fired over the range at Edwards AFB, California, on 30 October 2015. This was the first in a series of tests to evaluate the inflight operation of the gun throughout its employment envelope. One bursts of thirty rounds … Dowiedz się więcej