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Three firms net $412.9M for P-8A engine work for Australia, U.S. Navy

Oct 17, 2019 (UPI)

The contracts, modifications of previously awarded contracts, include Boeing receiving $193.3 million, StandardAero Inc. of San Antonio will receiving $174.7 mi...

Taiwan says fighter jet's missing black box found after two years

Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)

The single-seat Mirage 2000-5 disappeared from the radar on November 7, 2017 off Taiwan's northeast coast, around half an hour after taking off for a training m...

German climate plan brings sharp air travel tax hike

Oct 15, 2019 (AFP)

As part of a broader "climate package" intended to bring Europe's largest economy back on course towards emissions reduction targets, taxes on flights up to 2,5...

Air Force F-35 squadrons improve readiness capability amid deployments

Oct 15, 2019 (UPI)

Officials said all three squadrons of the 388th Fighter Wing were involved in missions and exercises away from home this summer, operating in nine countries, me...

British F-35Bs take off from, land on new carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth

Oct 14, 2019 (UPI)

The exercises, held over the weekend near the U.S. East Coast, involved the Royal Navy's F-35B Lightning fighter planes and were staged to demonstrate the next-...

South Korea to buy 20 more F-35 fighter planes

Oct 11, 2019 (UPI)

Forty of the fifth-generation stealth jets were ordered from builder Lockheed Martin in 2014 in a deal valued at about $6.4 billion. The first group of planes a...

NASA's supersonic X-59 QueSST coming together at Skunk Works

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

That airplane is NASA's X-59 QueSST (short for Quiet SuperSonic Technology), an experimental piloted aircraft designed to fly faster than sound without producin...

U.S. Navy establishes wing for CVM-22B Osprey aircraft

Oct 11, 2019 (UPI)

Capt. Dewon Chaney assumed command of the Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Wing (COMVRMWING) 1 in a ceremony at Naval Station North Island in San Diego on Thursday...

U.S. Air Force hits all 2019 recruitment goals

Oct 10, 2019 (UPI)

The strong numbers, announced by the Air Force on Thursday, compare to 2014 and 2015, when active-duty recruitment fell to about 24,000 each year. Air Force per...

Air Force reactivates squadron for B-21 bomber testing

Oct 10, 2019 (UPI)

The squadron was organized under the 412th Test Wing at the base, and a ceremony marking the occasion was held on Oct. 4, the Air Force announced on Wednesday. ...

Climate protesters vow to 'occupy' London airport

Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)

The year-old group is spearheading a two-week global campaign that kicked off Monday with partial shutdowns of traffic in cities stretching from Sydney to New Y...

India takes first delivery in controversial French jet deal

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh joined his French counterpart Florence Parly for a ceremony at the Dassault Aviation factory in Merignac, near the southwestern c...

Civil aviation aims for longterm CO2 reduction

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

The 193 member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) "committed to working" on setting a 2050 target for curbing airline CO2 emissio...

US fighter jet crashes in Germany

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

The airman was "recovered with minor injuries" after crashing during a "routine training mission", the US Air Force base at nearby Spangdahlem confirmed in a st...

United Technologies nets $325.2M contract for F-35 depot maintenance

Oct 07, 2019 (UPI)

The contract, announced by the Defense Department on Friday, calls for UTC to provide material and support equipment for depot maintenance facilities, as well a...

US Air Force rolls out new uniforms

Oct 07, 2019 (UPI)

The first Operational Camouflage Pattern uniforms were distributed at the 37th Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, last week. They will be ...

Sweden wants travel companies to flag up climate impact

Oct 04, 2019 (AFP)

"The transport sector is the key in the climate transition... but it should also be easy for the individual to take responsibility," Tomas Eneroth, Minister for...

General Atomics awarded $12.5M for EMALS work on Navy's aircraft carriers

Oct 04, 2019 (UPI)

The contract, announced Thursday, calls for "repair of repairables" and technical assistance regarding the return to operational status of aircraft carriers' EM...

NASA takes delivery of first all-electric experimental aircraft

Oct 04, 2019 (SPX)

The X-57, NASA's first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-plane - and the first crewed X-plane in two decades - was delivered by Empirical Systems Aerospa...

NASA, US industry aim to electrify commercial aviation

Oct 03, 2019 (SPX)

"We're at a critical time in the history of aviation because we have an opportunity to develop systems that will reduce cost, energy consumption and noise, whil...