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Boeing Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Demonstrator Completes First Flight
Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing's Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) demonstrator recently completed its first flight to verify airworthiness, an important milestone toward providing ...
Raytheon and PASSUR to provide improved airspace and airport efficiency
Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)
Raytheon and PASSUR Aerospace are collaborating on solutions to improve the predictability of air travel, increase efficiencies for airlines, and create a safer...
Improvement in polymers for aviation
Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)
We live surrounded by polymers and today, rather than come up with new polymers, there is a tendency to modify them in order to obtain new applications.A study ...
Northrop Grumman Provides Inertial Navigation Products for TiltRotor Aircraft
Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has been selected by AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, to provide flight-critical inertial instruments on the new AW609 TiltRotor aircraf...
Lockheed Martin Receives US Army Apache Targeting and Pilotage System Sustainment Contract
Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin received a $92 million Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract in December 2013 from the U.S. Army for sustainment of the AH-64 Apache helico...
ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities
Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)
U.S. military experience has shown that rugged terrain and threats such as ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) can make ground-based transportation...
F-35B Aircraft Fly In Formation In Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing Mode
Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)
Two F-35B aircraft fly in close formation while in short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) mode for the first time last week. Pilots Peter Wilson and Dan Levin f...
Airbus wants money for Germany's scrapped Eurofighter order: report
Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)
Airbus is demanding 900 million euros ($1.2 billion) in compensation from Germany for cancelling an order for a batch of 37 Eurofighter jets, according to a new...
French anti-airport protesters clash with police
Feb 22, 2014 (AFP)
Protesters opposed to plans to build a new airport for the French city of Nantes smashed shop windows Saturday and hurled paving stones at police, who answered ...
Why is the US spending so much on the F-35 fighter?
Feb 22, 2014 (AFP)
Despite incessant technical problems and delays, the US military has no plans to cancel the new F-35 fighter jet, the costliest weapons program in Pentagon hist...
US Navy Tests Infrared Search and Track on Boeing Super Hornet
Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. Navy recently tested, for the first time on a Boeing [NYSE: BA] F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft, the Infrared Search and Track (IRST) sensor that will fin...
Test Flight of the Modernized Day Sensor Assembly on the AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopter
Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)
Team Apache Sensors, including the U.S. Army Apache Attack Helicopter Project Management Office, the U.S. Army Aviation Flight Test Directorate and Lockheed Mar...
Boeing and Air France Industries Complete Major Modification of French AWACS Aircraft
Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing and Air France Industries KLM Engineering and Maintenance (AFI KLM E and M ) have successfully completed the Mid-Life Upgrade modification on the first o...
Germany cuts order for Eurofighter jets: report
Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)
Germany's defence ministry is planning to reduce its order for Eurofighter jets from 180 to 143, according to media reports on Thursday. National news agency DP...
Airbus Group To Acquire Salzburg Munchen Bank, Establish Company Bank
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Group has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with Raiffeisenverband Salzburg to acquire Salzburg Munchen Bank AG, in order to provide additional fin...
Britain agrees Eurofighter price deal with Saudi
Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)
Britain has reached agreement over the rising cost of providing Saudi Arabia with Typhoon Eurofighter jets, British defence company BAE Systems said on Wednesda...
Planetary Scientists Get Into Balloon Game
Feb 13, 2014 (VOA)
A new device developed by NASA will help planetary scientists take advantage of high altitude research balloons, a relatively inexpensive observational platform...
Black box found as Algeria seeks cause of deadly plane crash
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
Algerian search teams recovered one of the black box flight recorders of a military plane on Wednesday in their quest for clues to why it crashed killing all bu...
Lockheed Martin Files For FAA Type Design Update
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin officials submitted a Program Notification Letter to the Federal Aviation Administration on Jan. 21, 2014, for a type design update for the Lock...
A BARREL of Fun in Antarctica
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., with the support of NASA balloon scientists, are having a "BARREL" of fun in Antarctica. The Balloon Array ...
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