Egypt has ordered eight more Airbus C295 transports in a deal which will take its fleet to 20 and makes it the biggest customer for the market-leading tactical airlifter. The new batch of aircraft will be delivered to the Egyptian Air Force by Airbus Defence and Space beginning next year and will follow the 12 … Dowiedz się więcej
Airbus Defence and Space has performed the first air-to-air refuelling of the Airbus A400M new generation airlifter from the A330 MRTT Multi Role Transport Tanker. In the course of four flights, by day and night, in southern Spain, the A400M received more than 80 tons of fuel in 100 “wet contacts” from a Royal Air … Dowiedz się więcej
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully completed the first paratrooping trials of the A400M new generation airlifter. Spanish Army troops took part in a series of jumps at drop zones in France and Spain. The 11-flight test programme, which also included freefall jumps from the ramp, culminated in the successful despatch of 20 troops – … Dowiedz się więcej
Airbus Defense and Space przeprowadził pomyślnie pierwsze próby zrzucenia wojsk powietrznodesantowych z wojskowego samolotu transportowego A400M nowej generacji. Hiszpańskie wojska wzięły udział w serii skoków w strefach zrzutu we Francji i w Hiszpanii. Program testowy jedenastu lotów, który obejmował także skoki z rampy, został zakończony udanym skokiem dwudziestu żołnierzy: po dziesięciu z lewych i z … Dowiedz się więcej
The U.S. Coast Guard’s fleet of seventeen Airbus HC-144A Ocean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft has completed its first 50,000 hours of flight five years after the start of initial operational capability. The demonstrated maintainability of the HC-144A aircraft allows the Coast Guard to fly more hours per airframe in a year with the Ocean Sentry … Dowiedz się więcej
The unmanned aerial system (UAS) Harfang, which recently passed the symbolic mark of 10,000 flight hours in over 900 missions and will, according to a recently concluded contract, be kept in service until the end of 2017, was part of the security measures for the ceremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in … Dowiedz się więcej