India’s Flybig Poised To Launch Operations
Indian regional airline Flybig Airlines has received its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and begun selling flight tickets. Flybig has published on its website its schedule for 2021’s first quarter and…
GE Aviation and DLR Measure Flyover Noise Synchronously From Ground and Aircraft
GE Aviation’s Munich-based Advanced Technology team is collaborating with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to study noise pollution associated with turboprops. The project measures flyover noise synchronously using a Dornier…
DLR’s Electric Dornier 228 To Serve As Modular Demonstrator For Zero-Emission Technologies
The German Aerospace Centre’s (DLR) Dornier 228 electric-flight testbed will be used on a modular basis for several research applications, including hydrogen-electric flight. The first project it has announced, in…
US’ Bighorn Airways Expanding Fleet In Wake of Severe Wildfires
Wyoming-based Bighorn Airways, which recently fought some of the worst wildfires in recent US history, aims to get more Dornier 228s for smokejumping. During the recent fire season, it flew…
Australia’s GAM Air Targeting Tourism Charter Market
Australian regional operator GAM Air intends to continue to diversify its business by doing more ad hoc tourist charters in future in addition to freight runs. The airline’s chief executive…
RUAG Selling Dornier 228 Program To General Atomics
Swiss company RUAG International has agreed to sell its German aerospace business, including the Dornier 228 program, to General Atomics Europe. RUAG International says it is selling the business, for…