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LockMart Wins UK Apache Targeting and Pilotage System Deal
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has received a $60 million sustainment and support contract from AgustaWestland for the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Ni...
Turkey vows to go ahead with new airport despite court order
Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)
Turkey vowed Tuesday to press ahead with building what could become one of the world's busiest airports in defiance of a court order halting the project over en...
Lone survivor found as Algeria plane crash
Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)
A military aircraft carrying 78 people crashed in Algeria's mountainous northeast with just one survivor on Tuesday, in one of the country's deadliest air disas...
WASP Gives NASA's Planetary Scientists New Observation Platform
Feb 10, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists who study Earth, the sun and stars have long used high-altitude scientific balloons to carry their telescopes far into the stratosphere for a better ...
Indonesia officials to skip Singapore Airshow amid name row
Feb 09, 2014 (AFP)
Indonesian defence officials have pulled out of this week's Singapore Airshow, Jakarta said Sunday, as a row over the controversial naming of an Indonesian wars...
Raytheon to begin Phase 3 on DARPA Persistent Close Air Support program
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
Raytheon is beginning Phase 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program. DARPA has exercised its Phase 3 op...
A Faster, Simpler Way to Replace Obsolete Parts for B-2 Bomber
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force will get its first look at a faster, more affordable way to replace obsolete avionics on the B-2 stealth bomber under a contract awarded last...
Launching the Fastest Plane of the Future
Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)
It's a sci-fi concept that's at the center of a 25-year exploratory project: building a hypersonic aircraft that takes off from the runway and doesn't need a re...
UK's 'most-advanced' aircraft makes succesful test flights
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
An unmanned drone said to be the most technologically advanced aircraft ever built in Britain has made its first successful test flights, military chiefs announ...
Virgin Atlantic pulls out of Australia
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic said Wednesday it was axing Sydney to Hong Kong services due to increasing costs, leaving British Airways ...
USAF Orders Additional Boeing Combat Survivor Evader Locators
Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing will deliver an additional 2,550 Combat Survivor Evader Locator radios - which are vital to the rescue of downed pilots and other warfighters in dangerou...
USAF Receives First B-1 Equipped with Boeing Integrated Battle Station
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force on Jan. 21 received the first B-1 bomber upgraded with the Boeing [NYSE: BA] Integrated Battle Station, which essentially turns the B-1 into ...
Swiss to vote in May on fighter deal
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
Switzerland's plan to buy 22 fighter jets from Sweden will be put to the Swiss public in a referendum on May 18, the Alpine country's government announced Wedne...
Red Arrows pilot killed by 'useless' seat mechanism
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
A British coroner on Wednesday described the safety mechanism of an ejection seat that threw a pilot from the Red Arrows aerobatics display team to his death as...
Boeing profits surge but tougher 2014 awaits
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
US aerospace giant Boeing Wednesday reported a big jump in quarterly earnings, but signaled a leaner 2014 profit outlook after last year's boom. Boeing's fourth...
S. Korea to finalise F-35 jet fighter deal this year
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
South Korea plans to finalise the purchase of 40 next-generation F-35 jet fighters from US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin later this year, Seoul's military pro...
Boeing Starts Assembly of Final KC-46A Test Aircraft
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing is assembling the fourth and final KC-46A test aircraft for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation aerial refueling tanker program at the company's Everett...
Novel technology reveals aerodynamics of birds flying in a V-formation
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), and a...
Indonesia plane crashes after lightning strike, 4 dead
Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)
A light aircraft crashed and burst into flames on a beach in eastern Indonesia Sunday after being hit by lightning, killing all four people on board, an officia...
One killed after US Army helicopter makes 'hard landing'
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
A US soldier from an elite unit was killed and two others injured when their Blackhawk helicopter made a "hard landing" at a base in Georgia, the Army said Thur...
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