Aerial Forum

Flying Windmill hits the Economy by Herman Spiring

In November 2009, information about a tender for eight light helicopters destined for the biggest corporate operator in Russia, Gazpromavia, was leaked to the Russian media. Both the circumstances of this contest, and its overtones, would normally have been widely debated in the Russian media, but initially they went barely noticed because of the secrecy of the process. The scandal involved the tendering stage. It was revealed that all but one of the bidders had recalled their tender documents...