Fellow Austrian Mario Polaschegg of Scotty and Marcus Gurtner, Airborne Technologies Chief Sales Officer are all smiles at their joint booth at Avalon 2011
Marcus Gurtner beat back the jet lag to ensure the visitors to Avalon 2011 were fully briefed on the world of Airborne Technologies.
As in so many other countries around the world, suppliers of ‘airborne special services’ in Australia and New Zealand are under severe pressure to offer up more cost effective solutions. With the TECNAM MMA platform offering significantly lower operating costs in particular, Marcus had no difficulty in laying down the foundations of the first sales of Airborne Technologies offerings in Australasia.
Poland’s GISPRO LLC today took delivery of a complete Airborne Technologies turnkey airborne photo and LIDAR remote sensing suite.
Airborne Technologies Marcus Gurtner and GISPRO’s team shake hands to celebrate the on time handover of GISPRO newly equipped VulcanAir P68.
Prior to taking off from Airborne Technologies headquarters at Wiener Neustadt airport, GISPRO’s team take time out for one last snap, before flying off to the home base in Szczecin, Poland.
Airborne Technologies have fitted a new advance airborne photo and LIDAR remote sensing suite, including:
VEXCEL UCXp large format frame camera
RIEGL CP680i LIDAR remote sensor
IGI Systems DIGICAM 60 and CCNS4 flight guidance and georeferencing system
A significant milestone is achieved today as the first TECNAM MMA production aeroplane is rolled out at Tecnam’s Capua production facility in Italy.
TECNAM MMA, the first Russian production aircraft
This particular aircraft will be delivered to Russian based operator Chel Avia and the plan is to have its public debut this August at MAKS, Russia’s premier aerospace exhibition, where it will be joined by the TECNAM MMA#1.
On hand in Capua was Clemens Mandl, Airborne Technologies Head of Engineering to take this roll-out snap.
Clemens will remain on site to manage the acceptance process of the first production MMA before it transits over to Airborne Technologies base in Wiener Neustadt, Austria for outfitting of its sophisticated package of surveillance avionics .
Marcus Gurtner, Airborne Technologies, Chief Sales Officer briefing one of the many syndicates participating in the UK Tecnam MMA demo.
Reliability unsurpassed as Airborne Technologies CEO Wolfgang Grumeth and UK test pilot Tim Orchard fly 14 full surveillance missions in one day, as they showcase both the TECNAM MMA and Airborne Technologies capabilities to a number of potential UK based customers and authorities.
Many aspect of the world of surveillance are of course classified and of a clandestine nature, suffice to say both civil and ‘others’ dictated a wide range of specific mission profiles covering activity in both urban and rural areas.
Although some attendees provided both their own pilots and systems operators, Airborne Technologies flew in to Wycombe Air Park its own specialist personal and equipment, successfully promoting its ‘turnkey’ operations capability.
Those of us looking at the live transmissions beamed down from the TECNAM MMA to our large screen in the Wycombe Air Park lounge, were very impressed with the quality and range of images that were being transmitted to us. The resolution of the cameras and skill of the system operators was remarkable.
Airborne Technologies CEO Wolfgang Grumeth briefs his newest test pilot, former Concorde Captain, Tim Orchard, at England’s Wycombe Air Park today.
TECNAM MMA on the Wycombe Air Park dispersal, Wolfgang Grumeth (far right) briefing new MMA test pilot Tim Orchard
Wolfgang has just flown the TECNAM Multi Mission Aircraft (MMA) direct from his home airfied of Wiener Neustadt in Austria for two days of intensive trials and demonstrations to many UK based potential customers.
Within 30 minutes of Wolfgang’s arrival, Tim took the MMA and two ‘evaluators’ into the air for a very successful demonstration of both the MMA’s capabilities and its newly certified range of surveillance equipment.
Wolfgang’s customers were very happy indeed with their flight, however those of us on the ground did have one complaint. We missed the takeoff. Those Rotax engines are just too quiet!
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