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RAF aircraft in successful North Sea helicopter rescue
All 18 people aboard a helicopter which ditched in the North Sea are safe following a major multi-agency search and rescue operation involving RAF aircraft, the MOD can confirm.
Reports were received at around 1843hrs this evening, 18 February 2009,… Continue reading
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Bedek Aviation Group to Convert its First B767-300 Aircraft
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Bedek Aviation Group (IAI/Bedek) has reached the milestone of cutting the opening in the fuselage to install the Main Deck Cargo Door on its first B767-300ER aircraft conversion from Pax to the Bedek Special Freighter (BDSF) configuration.… Continue reading
U.S. Navy Awards General Dynamics Contract Extension for Production of F/A-18 Gun Systems
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a $16 million contract extension for the production of M61A2 20mm automatic Gatling gun systems for use on… Continue reading
Second ATV named after Johannes Kepler
19 February 2009
ESA’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has been named Johannes Kepler after the German astronomer and mathematician. Europe’s next unmanned logistics spacecraft is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station in mid-2010.
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)… Continue reading
Airbus revises production rates.
Delivery target 2009 remains unchanged
Blagnac, 19 February  2009
Airbus is adapting production rates of its A320 Family programme from 36 to 34 a month from October 2009 onwards. Production rates of the A330/A340 family will be paused at the… Continue reading
EADS Defence & Security to modernise French military identification systems
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€ 30 million contract for encryption system upgrade
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Reliable identification of friendly forces avoids accidental attacks
19 February  2009
EADS Defence & Security (DS) will ensure the reliability of the French Armed Forces’ friend-or-foe identification systems (IFF) by delivering state-of-the-art… Continue reading
Astrium helps enable the maiden flight of the SIDM UAV in a foreign theatre of operations by supplying new satellite bandwidth in Afghanistan
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Astrium Services provides the French Defence Staff with new civil bandwidth in Afghanistan
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Astrium Services secures the reconfiguration of a satellite for French military needs
On 17 February 2009, the French Air Force’s SIDM (the French acronym for medium altitude… Continue reading
B-52 accident report released
2/18/2009Â -Â LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFNS)Â –Â An improper stabilizer trim setting caused the July 21 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft northwest of Guam, according to an Air Combat Command accident investigation board report released Feb. 13.
Analysis of… Continue reading
Rotorsim signs contract to train Norway’s NH90 aircrews
Rotorsim, the consortium owned equally by AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and CAE today announced it has signed a five-year contract to provide NH90 flight simulation training to the Norwegian armed forces. Rotorsim, as the provider of full flight and mission… Continue reading