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NASA-funded balloon mission begins fourth campaign
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The BARREL team ...
Power of Pink Provides NASA with Pressure Pictures
Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)
They say you show your true colors when you're under pressure. Turns out the old saying works for models being tested in wind tunnels as well, specifically thos...
Lockheed inaugurates T-50A ground-training facility
Aug 17, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin has inaugurated its ground-based training facility for the T-50A advanced trainer and light attack aircraft being offered to the U.S. Air Force....
Cathay Pacific H1 profit drops amid China slowdown
Aug 17, 2016 (AFP)
Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific said Wednesday its first-half profit dropped 82 percent from a year earlier, with the company hit by an economic slowdown ...
B-52 successfully drops JASSM from internal bay for first time
Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)
A B-52 Stratofortress recently dropped a Joint Attack Surface Standoff Missile, or JASSM, from the internal weapon bay for the first time, the U.S. Air Force an...
Unleaded Zeppelin: Why Airships May Again Start to Compete With Planes
Aug 15, 2016 (Sputnik)
This week's presentation of the Airlander 10, a huge plane-airship hybrid, which was towed from Britain's largest airship hangar in Bedfordshire, has prompted e...
KC-46A Pegasus receives Milestone C approval
Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)
The KC-46A Pegasus tanker has received Milestone C approval from the Pentagon, clearing the way for the aircraft to enter production. After approval was granted...
Boeing contracted for work on U.S. Navy F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G aircraft
Aug 12, 2016 (UPI)
Boeing has been awarded a $18 million U.S. Navy contract modification for work on the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft. The cost-plus-fixed-f...
Leonardo-Finmeccanica resumes AW609 flight tests
Aug 12, 2016 (UPI)
Leonardo-Finmeccanica has resumed flight tests of its AW609 tilt-rotor aircraft, an effort that was halted after a fatal prototype crash in 2015. The AW609 pro...
Navy announces 3-year CH-53E helicopter repair effort
Aug 11, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Marine Corps has begun a full reset of its CH-53E helicopters to address an issue that came to light after a fatal 2014 crash, the Navy said Wednesday....
NASA Charges Toward Greener Aviation With Novel Concepts
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
NASA has selected five green technology concepts that have the potential to transform the aviation industry in the next decade by reducing aircraft fuel use and...
Sri Lanka to replace its ageing fighter jets
Aug 10, 2016 (AFP)
Sri Lanka Wednesday announced plans to replace its ageing jet fighters to better defend its maritime borders including rich fishing grounds, seven years after t...
Kuwait orders 30 Caracal helicopters from Airbus Helicopters
Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)
Kuwait has signed a deal with Airbus Helicopters for 30 H225M Caracal helicopters, the company announced Tuesday. The deal, for an undisclosed value, includes a...
Stretched US Air Force faces fighter shortage
Aug 10, 2016 (AFP)
The US Air Force is facing a fighter pilot shortage as it scrambles to service an ever-growing array of air campaigns around the world, top officials said Wedne...
MH370 plunged into ocean at high speed: report
Aug 09, 2016 (AFP)
MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed -- up to 20,000 feet a minute -- reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current s...
U.S. Army's future helicopter engine moves forward
Aug 09, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Army's next-generation helicopter engine is ready to enter the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the Pentagon's acquisition framework. ...
Alion to assist Navy's DDG-51 program
Aug 09, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Alion Science and Technology a five-year contract to support its DDG 51 destroyer fleet. The support will be in t...
Russia to build aircraft plant in Azerbaijan capital
Aug 09, 2016 (UPI)
Russia plans to open a helicopter center and aircraft assembly plant in Azerbaijan's capital, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was quoted by Russian news ag...
Sikorsky to provide Mexican Black Hawk support in Colombia
Aug 08, 2016 (UPI)
Sikorsky will offer Black Hawk helicopter operators in Mexico access to facilities in Colombia for simulator training, maintenance and repair, the Lockheed Mart...
Boeing gets $60 million for P-8A aircraft work
Aug 08, 2016 (UPI)
Boeing has been awarded a $60 million U.S. Navy contract modification for work on the P-8A Poseidon multi-mission maritime aircraft. The cost-plus-fixed-fee mod...
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