Airborne Technologies significantly strengthened its leadership team today with the appointment of Hans Christian Braun as Head of Flight Operations.
With extensive experience as a flight test pilot already under his belt, coupled with a worldwide reputation for offering sales and service support to the aerial surveying and surveillance community, Hans Christian is looking forward to leading a young and in his words ‘’powerful’ Airborne Technologies Flight Operations team.
Welcome aboard Hans Christian
Under the shadow of the big Russian bombers, Chel Avia display their first Tecnam MMA to attendees of MAKS, Russia’s premier air salon.
Audiences were very impressed with the quality of live images beamed direct to Moscow from Airborne Technologies MMA demonstrator flying over Vienna.
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Succesfully accepted and ready for the mission, the team of Chelavia Russia poses in front of their new Tecnam MMA (Multi Mission Aircraft) at Wiener Neustadt.
From left to right that’s Clemens Knappert – Airborne Technologies Head of Engineering, Liutauras Dziuzas – CFI and today’s ferry pilot, Marcus Gurtner – Airborne Technologies CSO together with a very proud Sergey Gordovenko – Chel Avia’s Moscow based director.
Come and explore Chel Avia’s fully equipped Tecnam MMA and the capabilities of Airborne Technologies as a provider of turnkey solutions for airborne surveillance & surveying at the MAKS, the Russian Air and Space Salon in Moscow from the 16th to the 21st of August.
Operating out of Trento Matarello Airport, Italy’s leading research organization, the E.Mach Foundation (FEM) of San Michele all`Adige, in collaboration with CNR (Consiglio Nazionale dell Ricerche), and the Universities of Udine and Padova, today concluded a series of aerial research missions aimed at assisting in surveying and the development of Italy’s natural resources.
Airborne Technologies Italian built Tecnam MMA (Multi Mission Aircraft) was specifically selected as it is equipped with a multi sensor installation that is able to acquire simultaneously ground data with airborne laser scanners, hyperspectral scanners, thermal cameras and RGB digital cameras, all in one flight!
Innovation reigns supreme at Airborne Technologies with the successful completion and certification of a new and enhanced multi sensor suite for the aerial surveying marketplace.
Airborne Technologies R&D team overcame a number of major challenges to arrange for up to five state of the art, low weight and low power consuming sensors to look through one single fuselage opening in the aircraft.
Airborne Technologies fleet equipped with the new multi sensor suite, will be a boon to supporting a wide range of aerial surveying mission profiles, including but not restricted to: agricultural (precision farming) applications, forest inventory, land use classification, mining explorations and archaeological surveying.
Flight test number 5 completed and it’s a thumbs up from Benjamin Kabelik, Manager Sensor Operations at Airborne Technologies.
Yes that’s 32,500 runners and 300,000 spectators on camera
Well o.k. not quite. Congratulations to the real winners. That’s Kenya’s John Kiprotich and Ethiopia’s Fate Tola.
But Airborne Technologies flew a 5 hour mission to provide a continuous live HD video stream to Austria’s national broadcaster ORF for the entire Vienna City Marathon last Sunday. The Multi Mission Aircraft was equipped with a Cineflex V14 HD camera and a BMS downlink system which conveyed live moving images to ORF viewer’s televisions.
Airborne Technologies’ fixed-wing aircraft are ideal for flying low altitude missions in urban environments due to the low noise emissions, the long endurance and of course the significantly lower operating cost compared to traditional helicopter platforms.
Impressions 28th Vienna City Marathon
Impressions 28th Vienna City Marathon
TECNAM MMA
Supplement Type Certificate 10034631
Airborne Technologies’ dedicated work in converting the Tecnam P2006T into a superlative aerial platform for performing sensitive surveillance mission and surveying operations has been rewarded with the EASA STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) No. 10034631, which fully certifies the MMA for use as an airborne surveillance platform.
Airborne Technologies CEO Wolfgang Grumeth and his team are looking forward to a very busy and productive future in fulfilling worldwide orders for the Tecnam MMA.
Oleg Vasiliev owner of Russian based Chel Avia accepts his 1st Tecnam MMA at AERO 2011 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Oleg Vasiliev (centre), owner of Russian based Chel Avia at the handover ceremony for the 1st production Tecnam MMA. Special guests included Professor Luigi Pascale and Paolo Pascale, Tecnams MD (both on the left of the photo)
The Airborne Technologies leadership team was joined by some very special guests at the handover ceremony including Italian aerospace design guru Professor Luigi Pascale and Tecnams Managing Director, Paolo Pascale.
Congratulations to Oleg and his team. He was absolutely delighted to accept his fully equipped aircraft and plans an extensive series of demonstration missions in Russia this summer, culminating with a public reveal of his Tecnam MMA at MAKS, Russia premier Aerospace Expo in August .
Tecnam MMA fleet doubles
Smiles and rejoicing at Tecnam’s Capua production facility in Italy today as the first production aeroplane was handed over to Airborne Technologies and flown direct to Wiener Neustadt for finalizing and calibrating the airborne surveillance sensor suite.
Eventually bound for Russia, look out for Tecnam MMA production aircraft number 1 at next week’s AERO 2011 show at Friedrichshafen in Germany. The fully equipped aircraft will be presented to the public and handed over to Chel-Avia, the world first Tecnam MMA operator on Thursday 14 April.
Airborne Technologies GmbH today announced the first result of their closer ties with Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.
Airborne surveillance has become a more common, and effective lower cost tool for fighting crime from the air“, said Airborne Technologies CEO Wolfgang Grumeth. “Partnering with Pilatus and their proven aerial platform, combined with our retractable sensor lift, where the sensor equipment is protected inside the aircraft during take off, transit to target and landing results in an optimized turnkey solution for surveillance missions.” The PC-6 is ideally suited to operators who need to perform missions from challenging locations, such as short airstrips or unpaved and unprepared terrain in remote areas.
PC-6 Surveillance Kit
