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US selling Indonesia eight Apache helicopters

Sep 20, 2012 (AFP)

The United States is to sell eight Apache helicopters to Indonesia in a sign of strengthening ties aimed at boosting regional security, Secretary of State Hilla...

Boeing Business Jets proves range capability with record-setting trans-Pacific flight

Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing Business Jets set a new world record for "Speed Over a Recognized Course" when a BBJ flew non-stop from Los Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand for installa...

DLR and NASA announce partnership in aeronautics research

Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)

On 11 September 2012 at the ILA Berlin Air Show, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the United States National Aer...

Chile in talks to buy Dutch Cougar copters

Sep 13, 2012 (UPI)

Chile is in talks with the Netherlands to purchase eight Cougar helicopters that are likely to be reconditioned and upgraded to form part of an air cavalry brig...

Sikorsky explores broader Polish network

Sep 13, 2012 (UPI)

European helicopter manufacturing and service companies have recently signed agreements to strengthen and expand their business portfolios. In Poland, Britain's...

Northrop Grumman to Supply Inertial Navigation System for Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3

Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has been selected by the Eurofighter Consortium and prime contractor Alenia Aermacchi to provide inertial and satellite navigation systems for ...

Northrop Grumman to Supply Navigation System for Embraer's New KC-390 Military Aircraft

Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract to supply the hybrid global positioning system (GPS) and inertial reference system for the Embraer Defense and Secu...

Boeing, US Navy Complete First Test of AMC for Super Hornet, Growler

Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing and the U.S. Navy on Sept. 6 successfully flight tested a new mission computer that will expand the performance of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G ...

Albatross 'dynamic soaring' achieved by repeated curve-altitude oscillation

Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

Albatrosses leverage the energy of the wind to fly with essentially no mechanical cost to themselves, very rarely flapping their wings, and new work published i...

Brazil poised to use more Black Hawks

Sep 10, 2012 (UPI)

Brazil's increased defense and security needs have prompted the country's armed forces to consider deploying more of the U.S. Black Hawk helicopters on humanita...

Boeing Forecasts China Will Need 5,260 New Airplanes by 2031

Sep 10, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing is projecting China will need 5,260 new commercial airplanes valued at $670 billion over the next 20 years. China is forecast to be the second largest ma...

Mass protest in Japan against US hybrid aircraft

Sep 09, 2012 (AFP)

Tens of thousands of people rallied on Japan's southern island of Okinawa Sunday against the deployment of US Osprey military aircraft after a series of acciden...

Chinese firm to entice Air France pilots to head to Asia

Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)

Air France pilots are to meet Monday with a Chinese company hoping to recruit them to Asia, union officials said, as the French airline tries to shed staff to r...

Turkey looks to Lockheed's F-35 models

Sep 07, 2012 (UPI)

Turkey has expressed interest in Lockheed Martin's three F-35 fifth-generation Joint Strike Fighter variants. Ankara is close to a decision on ordering a second...

PZL-Swidnik highlights new products

Sep 06, 2012 (UPI)

Polish aircraft manufacturer PZL-Swidnik SA, an AgustaWestland company, has announced a new product and another in the works. The new product is the prototype s...

'Sideways' aircraft for supersonic speed?

Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)

An aircraft that could pivot 90 degrees in midair after takeoff to reach supersonic speeds has been given $100,000 in NASA funding, its research team says. Ge-C...

Chilean deal with EADS falling through

Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)

Talks on business collaboration between Chilean state aviation company Enaer and European manufacturer EADS are stalled over legal technicalities that may prove...

Airbus says Chinese-built planes to be sold only in China

Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)

Airbus planes built in a Chinese factory will be sold only to Chinese clients, the European plane maker said Monday, although a leasing exception could see airc...

Arrest after China flight threat: state media

Sep 02, 2012 (AFP)

Police in southern China have arrested a man suspected of threatening to blow up a commercial jet, following a similar incident affecting a flight from Beijing,...

Boeing Fatigue Test to Validate Predicted Life of B-1 Bomber Fleet

Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing has begun a five-year fatigue test on the wing of a U.S. Air Force B-1 bomber to validate the predicted life of the bomber fleet, currently forecasted to...