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Horizon Aircraft Announces Board of Directors for Post-Merger Public Company

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Mardi, janvier 2, 2024
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TORONTO, Jan. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Aircraft Ltd., doing business as Horizon Aircraft (“Horizon Aircraft” or the “Company”), a hybrid electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing (“eVTOL”) aircraft developer, which previously announced that it would become a public company via a business combination with publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, Pono Capital Three, Inc. (“Pono”)(Nasdaq: PTHR), today announced its Board of Directors, effective at the closing of its business combination.

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  • ~ Board Announced in Anticipation of January 2024 Merger Between Horizon Aircraft and Pono Capital Three, Inc. ~
    TORONTO, Jan. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robinson Aircraft Ltd., doing business as Horizon Aircraft (“Horizon Aircraft” or the “Company”), a hybrid electric Vertical TakeOff and Landing (“eVTOL”) aircraft developer, which previously announced that it would become a public company via a business combination with publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, Pono Capital Three, Inc. (“Pono”)(Nasdaq: PTHR), today announced its Board of Directors, effective at the closing of its business combination.
  • The post-merger Horizon Aircraft Board of Directors will be led by Brandon Robinson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Horizon and is comprised of five (5) directors that bring considerable field operations, corporate governance and executive management experience across the aviation and technology sectors.
  • Brandon Robinson, Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Horizon Aircraft commented, “We are grateful to have inspired both experienced public and private company executives to help shape the trajectory of Horizon Aircraft.
  • I look forward to working in partnership with this elite group to continue the development of our groundbreaking technology.”
    The composition of the post-merger Horizon Aircraft Board of Directors includes:
    Brandon is the co-founder and CEO of Horizon Aircraft.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen will be among the next humans to fly to the moon

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Mardi, avril 4, 2023
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This mission will be the first time in more than 50 years that humans will visit the moon — or leave low Earth orbit — since Apollo 17 in 1972.

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  • This mission will be the first time in more than 50 years that humans will visit the moon — or leave low Earth orbit — since Apollo 17 in 1972.
  • And a Canadian will be onboard this milestone mission: astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
  • For the past decade, I have been helping to train astronauts from Canada and the United States in geology, including Hansen.
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    Canada's space technology and innovations are a crucial contribution to the Artemis missions

Building on the success of Artemis I

    • Following the success of Artemis I in late 2022, Artemis II is the next mission in the Artemis program — and the precursor to sending humans back to the surface of the moon.
    • Scheduled to launch in late 2024, Artemis II will achieve several firsts: it will be the first time humans will fly in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the first mission to take humans beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
    • While not identical in design, Artemis II aims to achieve what Apollo 8 did in 1968, which is to make sure everything works in preparation for Artemis III, which will take humans back to the surface of the moon.

Canadian circling the moon

    • But for Canada, this will go down as one of the biggest moments in our space program’s history: onboard this mission will be Canadian astronaut, Jeremy Hansen.
    • This will make Canada only the second country in the world, after the U.S., to send a human to deep space.
    • He then joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1994 where he became a CF-18 fighter pilot.
    • In 2009, Hansen was one of two recruits selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
    • Not only will Hansen be the first ever Canadian to venture into deep space, he will be doing so on his first ever spaceflight!

Canadian technology

    • As announced in November last year, the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission will be the first ever Canadian-led mission to the surface of another planetary body.
    • We won’t have to wait three years, however, for the first Canadian technology to reach the lunar surface.
    • Onboard the lunar lander scheduled for touchdown in late April are two Canadian payloads funded by the CSA’s Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program: the MoonNet deep learning software from Mission Control Space Services in Ottawa, and an AI-enabled 360-degree camera from Canadensys Aerospace, based in Bolton, Ont.
    • In case you missed it, the CSA received funding for the next phase of the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program in the recent federal budget, ensuring that these opportunities for Canadian companies and universities to send technologies to the moon will continue.

Lunar research, terrestrial benefits

    • As we wait for Artemis II, space agencies are focusing research on how to sustain human presence on the lunar surface.
    • To do so will require innovative solutions to keep astronauts alive and healthy on the lunar surface for up to months at a time.
    • Of course, they could survive on vacuum-sealed meals brought from Earth, but in the long run, this is not sustainable.
    • Now that the Artemis II crew has been announced, they will be spending every minute of their available time preparing for the mission.
    • Hopefully, it will also include a geology refresher so that he can better understand what he sees as he flies around the moon.

Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Jens Stoltenberg to visit Canada

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Vendredi, août 19, 2022
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OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 19, 2022 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, will travel to Canada from August 24 to 26, 2022.

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  • OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 19, 2022 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, will travel to Canada from August 24 to 26, 2022.
  • "I look forward to welcoming Secretary General Stoltenberg back to Canada, where we will advance action on critical issues for Canada and the Alliance, ranging from international security to climate change and its impacts.
  • Prime Minister Trudeau and Secretary General Stoltenberg last met on the margins of the NATO Summit in Madrid, Spain in June 2022.
  • Canada is providing two CC-130 Hercules aircraft, operating out of the United Kingdom, to support Allies' bilateral donations to Ukraine.

L3Harris Awarded a $482 Million USD Royal Canadian Air Force Contract Extension to Deliver Continued CF-18 Support

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Jeudi, avril 21, 2022
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L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded a 4-year, $482 million USD performance based contract extension (PBC), with option years, to continue in-service support of the Royal Canadian Air Forces (RCAF) CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft fleet until its retirement that is currently estimated to occur in 2032.

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  • L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded a 4-year, $482 million USD performance based contract extension (PBC), with option years, to continue in-service support of the Royal Canadian Air Forces (RCAF) CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft fleet until its retirement that is currently estimated to occur in 2032.
  • With this contract extension, L3Harris will continue to provide fleet and program management, maintenance, engineering, material management, electronic publications, integrated logistic support, data management and operational software support.
  • Work will be conducted at L3Harris Mirabel facility, as well as at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Cold Lake and CFB Bagotville.
  • L3Harris has created hundreds of high-technology jobs in Quebec with F/A-18 support contracts for Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Finland, Spain and the United States.

Arcfield Canada Awarded $40M CF-18 Avionics Optimized Weapon System Support Contract Extension

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Mercredi, avril 6, 2022
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CHANTILLY, Va., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcfield Canada Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcfield, has been awarded a two-year contract extension by the Department of National Defence to provide engineering and logistics support services for the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) CF-18 Avionics (AVS) Optimized Weapon System Support (OWSS) program.

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  • CHANTILLY, Va., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcfield Canada Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcfield, has been awarded a two-year contract extension by the Department of National Defence to provide engineering and logistics support services for the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) CF-18 Avionics (AVS) Optimized Weapon System Support (OWSS) program.
  • The award, which represents follow-on work for the company, has a total value of US$39.7 million (CA$50 million)
    Under the contract extension, Arcfield Canada will continue to provide support for the entire CF-18 avionics suite and associated support equipment through the end of March 2024.
  • As a leader in avionics sustainment, Arcfield Canada administers the complete lifecycle management, engineering support services, supply chain management, and maintenance, repair and overhaul of avionics systems for the CF-18 fighter fleet.
  • To date, the company has completed more than 70,000 repairs on the CF-18 avionics.