The Helicopter Line, which operates sightseeing tours from bases in Queenstown, Aoraki/Mount Cook, Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, has entered into a new support-by-the-hour (SBH) contract with Safran to support operational reliability.
About Low Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD) Project
The Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project (LBFD) is part of NASA’s effort to help enable new aircraft noise standards that are required to open the market to commercial supersonic flight over land. The federal government banned all civilian supersonic flights over land more than fifty years ago due to sonic boom noise. If new standards are established, the U.S. aviation […]