Rockwell Collins’ Corporate Aircraft Service Program (CASP) has been a great resource for aviation companies’ worldwide. Providing top of the line maintance to companies in the industry, the program has an extensive list of abilities it can benefit companies that become a part of or renew their contract such as the France based TWIN JET. The French operator plans to renew its fleet of 12 Beechcraft 1900D aircrafts during the span of the following three years.
The Canadian based airline Viking just secured a qualification approval from Transport Canada. This qualification approval is for the Level D full flight simulator for the 400 Twin Otter family of aircraft. The actual approval is through Viking Air’s sister company, Pacific Sky Aviation.
Mirabel, QC Canada is home to the Bell Helicopter Textron facility that has completed a significant mark as a entire facility. The Mirabel location has completed its 5000 aircraft with the hard and efficient work of its employees. As Bell continues to increase its order log it requires from many of its locations to complete these orders in a timely fashion and is no easy task. Building up to the completion of the 5000th aircraft, Bell was presented with an order from a Chinese company known as Shaanxi Helicopter Co Ltd. (SHC). The order was detailed with the completion of 100 of Bells 407GXPs type aircrafts.
Dassault Aviation is using Pratt & Whitney Canada’s (P&WC) PurePower PW800 engine to power their new Falcon Business Jet. After experiencing delays on the Falcon 5X project due to problems with the Snecma Silvercrest engine, Dassault canceled the project last month and launched a new Falcon model with the same fuselage cross section and P&WC engines instead.
Airbus begins implementing their new models on a nonprofit air medical transportation service company found in Memphis, Tennessee. Hospital Wing, the nonprofit, begun to receive Airbus’ new model aircrafts the H130. Previously the Wings fleet consist of older models such as three EC130B4 and three H125 aircrafts.
Bell helicopter has benefitted from the type of products that DART Aerospace has been able to supply. Throughout the years DART has provided premium support components for construction and maintance of BELL helicopters. Dart has been able to provide Bell with optimum parts that benefit in the long run that keeps maintance cost down and their helicopters stay flying in the air.
Owners and Maintance personnel of aircrafts can attest that keeping aircrafts looking in top shape can get costly and require a lot of time. Using premium products benefit the aircraft from piled up dirt and other unwanted accumulated particles. As many airlines want to promote their names to increase their customers they rely on the impeccable look for their aircrafts.There is various step to cleaning your aircrafts the precise and efficient way. Flitz polish is very commonly used product that has been in the industry for more than 30 years. It is an all-around product that can be applied to various surfaces and materials for optimal looks. Surfaces that show maximum performance are brass, copper, silver plate, chrome, stainless steel, nickel, bronze, gold, aluminum to name a few. The Flitz polish comes in a liquid and paste option that can be applied on with a basic dry microfiber towel.
The job of a pilot is prestigious but risky and difficult, on average pilots spend about 70 to 100 hours a month in the air. Therefore, piloting requires high attention to detail, patience as well as hard and intensive training. The F-35 Full Mission Simulator (FMS) is the next-generation U.S. fighter aircraft pilot training.
During the 2017 Paris Airshow the renown Philippines Airlines announced of their planned expansion curtesy of Bombardier within the next couple of years. The agreement was based on a set of 7 new Q400 bombardier aircrafts. Only to be an addition to Philippines airways previous order of 5 Q400 that is dated back to December of 2016.
BAE Systems has triumphantly achived flight trials of Eurofighter Typhoon with MBDA's Brimstone air-to-surface weapon. The trials were conducted using the UK Typhoon Instrumented Production Aircraft (IPA) 6 to gather air data on the weapon and increase the carriage envelope. During the trials, Aero Data Gathering (ADG) flights were performed to test how the addition of the Brimstone weapon and other assets cooperate with the aircraft’s flight control system software.