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Assembly of Test Airframe for Bombardier CSeries Aircraft Well Underway
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that the assembly of the test airframe for its all-new CSeries aircraft is well underway at the company’s Experimental Test Facility in St-Laurent, Québec. The test article will be used during the Complete Airframe Static Test (CAST) that is designed to demonstrate the static strength of the airframe and show compliance with certification […]
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Assembly of First Flight Test Vehicle for Bombardier CSeries Aircraft Underway
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that the cockpit and all fuselage sections for the CSeries aircraft’s first flight test vehicle (FTV1) have arrived at Mirabel, Québec, and that the assembly of FTV1 is in progress. Additionally, the first wings for the all-new CSeries aircraft are now being mated to the test airframe that will be used during the Complete Airframe […]
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Full-Scale Bombardier CSeries Aircraft Flight Deck and Cabin Demonstrators on Display at Munich Airport
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that the CSeries aircraft flight deck and cabin demonstrators are on display at Hangar 3 (Augsburg Airways GmbH) at Munich Airport until September 24, 2012. Direct from a roadshow in Riga, Latvia where they were on display for newly announced CSeries aircraft customer, airBaltic, the demonstrators have travelled across Europe from […]
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Southwest to Launch Non-stop Branson Flights
Southwest Airlines will add nonstop daily service to one city but drop direct flights to another when it begins flying from Missouri’s Branson Airport next year. Southwest announced Monday that it will take over the Branson operations of its AirTran subsidiary in March 2013. KYTV reports ( http://bit.ly/OnOeYk) that Southwest will drop daily nonstop […]
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Bombardier CSeries Aircraft Takes Virtual Flight
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that the company is now conducting virtual flights with “Aircraft 0”* – the on-the-ground Integrated Systems Test and Certification Rig (ISTCR) for the CSeries aircraft. The avionics, electrical, flight control, fly-by-wire, hydraulic, landing gear and wiring systems are now all commissioned, and systems integration and communication have been successfully demonstrated. The […]
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Ethiopian Dreamliner Continues Serving Rotating African Destinations
Ethiopian Airlines announced that its first Dreamliner, “Africa First”, continuing its flight to rotating African destinations, has flown to Mombasa and Kilimanjaro on August 19th; to Harare and Lusaka on August 20th; and to Nairobi and Entebbe on August 21st. Ethiopian Airlines’ decision to fly the Dreamliner primarily to African destinations is a […]
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United Airlines’ First 787 Takes Flight
United Airlines’ first 787 Dreamliner has completed its first production flight as Boeing makes final preparations for delivering it to United at the end of September. The aircraft took off from Boeing’s Paine Field in Everett, Wash., on Sunday. Boeing pilots flew the 787 around the Seattle area for more than three hours as part […]
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Qantas to be Alliance with Emirates
Qantas Airways is in talks with Dubai’s Emirates about a potential alliance, sending its shares surging more than 9 percent. Analyst Saj Ahmad commented: “If Emirates does end up doing a deal with Qantas, you can guarantee that it will be the biggest beneficiary rather than the ailing Australian airline. “Equally, there’s no guarantee that […]
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AirAsia shares flight to help MAS
Southeast Asia’s largest budget airline AirAsia looks set for a major share swap with Malaysian Airlines in a deal to help save the struggling national flag carrier, reports said Sunday. The agreement could see Malaysia-based AirAsia’s owner gain 20 percent of the equity in its loss-making rival, the Star and New Straits Times dailies reported. […]
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New Bombardier Learjet Aircraft on Track to Enter Service in 2013
Bombardier announced today that it is on track with its three new Learjet business aircraft as it shared further details of its ongoing development programs. The Learjet 85 aircraft program continues to progress towards first flight with four test aircraft in various stages of fabrication. The first complete pressure fuselage, including the nose and aft fuselage, is undergoing final […]