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US Marines may ground aircraft after latest deadly crash
Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)
The Japan-based Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed Saturday during an exercise off the Australian coast, leaving three service members missing and presumed dead. "We a...
Alloy Surfaces receives two year contract for flare countermeasures
Aug 07, 2017 (UPI)
The contract will go toward the purchase of flares designed to counter infrared guidance systems on missiles. The work will be conducted in Chester, Penn., and ...
Bell and Boeing receive $53.1 million contract for MV-22 Osprey modifcations
Aug 04, 2017 (UPI)
The contract modification will go towards one MV-22 as a test for improving readiness and eventual modification of the MV-22 fleet to the Block C common configu...
VH-92A presidential helicopter test bed takes first flight
Aug 04, 2017 (UPI)
The flight took place in Stratford, Conn. on July 28 and marked the start of 250 hours of flight time for the test program. The remainder of the test flights wi...
Dover AFB C-5Ms returned to flight status after grounding
Aug 03, 2017 (UPI)
Air Mobility Command commander Gen. Carlton Everhart II ordered the grounding of Dover C-5s on July 17 after a second nose landing-gear malfunction in as many m...
Air France extends no-fly zone around North Korea
Aug 03, 2017 (AFP)
"Having learned of this missile test we have decided to establish a wider non-flyover zone to move further away from North Korean territory," Air France said in...
Boeing receives $11.1 million contract for P-8A Poseidon repair work
Aug 03, 2017 (UPI)
The repair work for the modified contract will be performed in Jacksonville, Fla., other sites throughout the United States and locations in Japan, Australia an...
Perlan glider reaches 32,500 feet eyes world aviation record
Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)
Pilots Jim Payne, Morgan Sandercock, Tim Gardner and Miguel Iturmendi have soared the pressurized Perlan 2 glider in a series of flights reaching a maximum alti...
State Department approves sale of A-29 Super Tucanos to Nigeria
Aug 03, 2017 (UPI)
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered their certification of the foreign military sale to Congress, as required by law, on August 2. The twelve A-29...
Lockheed awarded contract for German P-3C aircraft upgrades
Aug 02, 2017 (UPI)
The modification will provide updates to computer systems, acoustic sensors, weapon systems and avionics for eight P-3C The upgrades will include components spe...
Supersonic technology designed to reduce sonic booms
Aug 02, 2017 (SPX)
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is partnering with the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, Langley Research Center in Virginia, and ...
Boeing receives contract for LRSO work on the B-52H
Aug 02, 2017 (UPI)
The work will be conducted at multiple locations with an expected completion date of Dec. 31, 2019, and $5 million in research and development funds already has...
Bankrupted Russian firm's jets may become Air Force One
Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)
The sale could save the Air Force millions of dollars, and comes after then president-elect Donald Trump said in December that the Air Force One replacement pro...
Lockheed receives contract 50 F-35s for foreign military sales
Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)
The modification will purchase 50 F-35s for foreign military sales customers including Britain, the Netherlands, Australia, Turkey, and Norway, among other reci...
Switzerland approved for F/A-18 upgrade package
Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)
Notification of the proposed sales package, worth $115 million, was given to Congress by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which manages the FMS pro...
Jet trainer planes from BAE arrive in Oman
Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)
The Mark 166 aircraft arrived at Masirah Air Base on Saturday, just days after the arrival of the first Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft that Oman ordered at the sa...
China Eastern Airlines to acquire 10% of Air France-KLM
Jul 28, 2017 (AFP)
The state-owned company will pay about 375 million euros ($438.5 million) for its share in the French-Dutch airline, it said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock ...
Boeing receives $276.6M contract for CH-47 Chinook upgrades
Jul 27, 2017 (UPI)
The work will be conducted in Ridley Park, Penn., and is projected to be completed by July 27, 2020. The program has been obligated $27.3 million in fiscal 2017...
Cubic delivers enhanced training capabilities to RAAF
Jul 27, 2017 (UPI)
The planes, which achieved initial operating capability earlier this month, were fitted with Cubic's P5 Combat Training Systems with Air Combat Maneuvering Inst...
Boeing, U.S. military finish EMP testing on KC-46 tanker
Jul 27, 2017 (UPI)
The testing took place at Naval Air Station Patuxent, Md. electromagnetic pulse laboratory and the Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif....
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