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Cathay Pacific asks all staff to take unpaid leave; US airlines suspend Hong Kong flights
Feb 05, 2020 (AFP)
The request lays bare desperate times at Cathay, which was hammered last year by months of political chaos and protests in Hong Kong and is now being further hu...
Boeing receives $18.2M deal for MH-47G Chinook parts for Special Ops
Feb 04, 2020 (UPI)
According to the Pentagon, the order "is required to satisfy an urgent need to sustain U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) heavy assault, rotary wing aircraft ...
Boeing, Navy fly two unmanned EA-18G Growlers in test mission
Feb 04, 2020 (UPI)
A third Growler served as the mission controller for the other two, Boeing said, completing nearly two dozen demonstration missions during the Navy Warfare Deve...
Chinese tourism, the main engine of global travel
Feb 03, 2020 (AFP)
Their country is now the top contributor to world tourism. But in response to the spread of a novel coronavirus, Chinese authorities have suspended package holi...
Poland inks $4.6bn deal for US fighter jets
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
The United States in September approved the $4.6-billion (4.2-million-euro) contract to deliver a total of 32 aircraft to NATO ally Poland. The first batch is e...
NASA creates technologies to gather Great Observatory Science from a balloon
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
"Of course, it's best to go into space, but space observatories are expensive," said Kogut, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary...
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. receives $80M for C-20 and C-37 maintenance
Jan 28, 2020 (UPI)
The deal modifies a previous contract, originally awarded in 2018, to maintain, repair and rebuild the aircraft. The potential total value of the award is $594....
National Technologies nets $104.9 million for Marine One support
Jan 28, 2020 (UPI)
The contract, announced by the Pentagon on Tuesday, provides contractor logistics; research, development, test and evaluation support; engineering aircraft main...
3rd Marine Aircraft Wing receives first F-35C
Jan 23, 2020 (UPI)
Lt. Col. Cedar Hinton, commanding officer of VMFA-314, flew the aircraft from Naval Station Lemore, Calif., to MCAS Miramar on Jan. 21, the Marine Corps said Th...
Russian space industry proposes fleet of airships for critical mission
Jan 23, 2020 (Sputnik)
The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center has proposed the creation of a fleet of ten modern airships to engage in search and rescue operations in emergency si...
Iran confirms two missiles fired at Ukraine airliner
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
The country's civil aviation authority said it has yet to receive a positive response after requesting technical assistance from France and the United States to...
CMV-22B Osprey completes first flight in Texas
Jan 21, 2020 (UPI)
The CMV-22B is the latest variant of the tiltrotor fleet, joining the MV-22 and the CV-22 used by the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force. It uses twin rot...
Ukraine says Iran to hand over downed jet's black boxes
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
The Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737, crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran last Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, mostly I...
Air France-KLM chief warns carbon taxes could backfire
Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)
"Renewing our fleet is a very quick and effective way to reduce our footprint," Smith said, while acknowledging intense pressure -- including from his airline's...
Trump effuses over Boeing, a winner in China trade deal
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
"It's a great company!" Trump said of Boeing at a signing ceremony for the US-China trade agreement attended by Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun, who offici...
The chance to be greater
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
"I always wanted to be in the military. My dad was in the Coast Guard for 21 years, so I have always known the military lifestyle. I knew I wanted to join, but ...
Ukraine plane struck by two missiles: NYT
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
The missiles were fired 30 seconds apart and help explain a mystery as to why the plane's transponder was not working -- it was disabled by the first strike, be...
Ukraine asks Iran to hand over downed jet's black boxes
Jan 15, 2020 (AFP)
The Office of the General Prosecutor said it it would take "all measures" to properly decode the black boxes and "preserve evidence in the investigation of the ...
Boeing, Navy complete first Super Hornet flight with upgraded sensor
Jan 15, 2020 (UPI)
The IRST Block is a passive, long-range sensor incorporating infrared and other sensor technologies for targeting, with the new version a key part of Block III ...
Leonardo nets $176.5M for 32 TH-37A helicopters for Navy
Jan 14, 2020 (UPI)
The deal, announced Monday by the Pentagon, is a base-year contract coming under a total $648.1 million contract for 130 of the aircraft to be delivered through...
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