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Triple-engined search and rescue helicopter that replaced the CH-113 Labrador. Fourteen delivered between 2000 and 2002. Based at (103 Squadron) 9 Wing Gander, Newfoundland; (413 Squadron) 14 Wing Greenwood, Nova Scotia; and (442 Squadron) 19 Wing Comox, British Columbia. One aircraft has been lost in a training accident.
Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous NASA helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating that flight is possible in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars, and becoming the first aircraft to conduct a powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight.
The Canadian Air Force (CAF) was established in 1920 as the successor to a short-lived two-squadron Canadian Air Force that was formed during the First World War in Europe. . Wing Commander John Scott Williams was tasked in 1921 with organizing the CAF, handing command over later the same year to Air Marshal Lindsay Gordon.
A telecopter is a helicopter used to gather footage for television stations.It is a portmanteau of television and helicopter.. The KTLA Telecopter was the world's first television news helicopter, which first went into operation in 1958 [1] and was invented by John D. Silva. [2]
The aircraft are listed by Transport Canada as being registered to Canadian Helicopters Limited - Hélicoptères Canadiens Limitée registered in Quebec. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The Transport Canada list also shows an Aerospatiale AS350D, [ 13 ] an Aerospatiale AS 355F1, [ 14 ] a Bell 212, [ 15 ] a Bell 206B, [ 16 ] a Robinson R22 BETA, [ 17 ] and ...
“Today’s success represents a giant leap forward for the commercial space industry and @NASA’s long-term goal to build a vibrant U.S. space economy.” The four citizen astronauts will have ...
SPAR Aerospace was a Canadian aerospace company. It produced equipment for the Canadian Space Agency to be used in cooperation with NASA's Space Shuttle program, most notably the Canadarm, a remote manipulator system.
The fighter aircraft and helicopter responded to a civilian aircraft at 2:25 p.m. Saturday and escorted it to the ground. During the event, the aircraft dispensed flares in an attempt to draw ...