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Aeroplan. Aeroplan is the frequent-flyer program [1] owned by Air Canada, Canada's flag carrier. The Aeroplan program was created in July 1984 by Air Canada as an incentive program for its frequent flyer customers. In 2002 it was spun off as a separate corporate entity and eventually sold to Aimia. On May 11, 2017, Air Canada announced it plans ...
An airplane ( American English) or aeroplane ( Commonwealth English ), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation ...
Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, by size and passengers carried. Air Canada is headquartered in the borough of Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 222 destinations worldwide. It is a founding member of the Star ...
Saab AB (originally Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget ⓘ, lit.'The Swedish Aeroplane Corporation ', acronym SAAB ), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group ( Swedish: Saabgruppen ), is a Swedish aerospace and defense company primarily operating from Sweden. The company is headquartered in Stockholm, but its development and ...
History Ursaab, the prototype for the Saab 92 – Saab's first automobile Svenska Aeroplan AB (1948–1969) Saab 96. Saab, "Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget" (Swedish for "Swedish aeroplane corporation"), a Swedish aerospace and defence company, was created in 1937 in Linköping.
The history of aviation extends for more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets . Kite flying in China dates back to several hundred years BC and slowly spread around the world.
The History of Aircraft Power Plants Briefly Reviewed : From the " 7 lb. per h.p" Days to the " 1 lb. per h.p" of To-day "The Quest for Power" a 1954 Flight article by Bill Gunston "Engine Directory". Flight International. 24 September 1997.
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company, Ltd. Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909 – 1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss ...