Follow us!
Feedburner
Embraer and Conviasa sign a deal for up to 20 E190 jets
Embraer announced today an agreement with Venezuela’s Conviasa Airlines for the sale of six EMBRAER 190 jets. The deal also includes 14 purchase options for the same aircraft model. The value of the order, at list price, is USD 271.2… Continue reading
Boeing Next-Generation 737 Performance Improvement Package Delivers on Promise to Cut Fuel Burn
Customers of Boeing’s Next-Generation 737 are validating the benefits of the industry-leading Performance Improvement Package (PIP), one year after the first airplane PIP airplane was delivered. PIP combines aerodynamic and engine performance improvements to reduce fuel burn by up to… Continue reading
Boeing Integrates Next-Gen Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System on Silent Eagle
- Test validates functionality of JHMCS II/h on flight demonstrator
- Fighter jet development proceeding on schedule
Boeing [NYSE: BA] recently validated the integration of the next-generation Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System II/h (JHMCS II/h) on the company’s F-15 Silent Eagle demonstrator… Continue reading
Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft Company Open Asia Pacific Service Facility in Singapore
Bell Helicopter, in partnership with Cessna Aircraft Company, opened a new regional service center in Singapore at Seletar Aerospace Park. Bell Helicopter and Cessna are Textron companies (NYSE: TXT). The new state-of-the-art facility offers customers a one-stop shop for comprehensive… Continue reading
RAF Kinloss – The End Of An Era
At RAF Kinloss on Thursday 26 July 2012, at 1200 hrs, the RAF ensign was lowered for the very last time, bringing to an end the 73 – year history of one of the Royal Air Force’s most well known,… Continue reading
Navy conducts Pax River’s first flight of X-47B unmanned aircraft
The Navy made Pax River history today after it conducted the naval air station’s historic first flight of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator.
At 11 a.m., the tailless, unmanned aircraft launched from Pax River and flew for… Continue reading
Boeing launches probe after ‘engine issue’
Boeing said it had launched an investigation after an “engine issue” hit a test flight of the 787 Dreamliner a day earlier in South Carolina.
“A 787 experienced an engine issue July 28 while undergoing preflight runway testing in North… Continue reading
Boeing Receives 10th WGS Satellite Order from US Air Force
Boeing has received a $338.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce and launch a tenth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite. The authorization includes production, launch site activities, initial orbital operations and checkout.
Boeing is working with… Continue reading
Anglo-French unmanned air systems programme contract awarded
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation welcome today’s award by the UK and French Governments for a Future Combat Air System Demonstration Programme Preparation Phase (FCAS DPPP) contract.
The FCAS DPPP contract will propose a joint plan to mature and demonstrate… Continue reading
Raytheon’s Space Fence technology ready to track space debris
The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) have completed the preliminary design review (PDR) contract of the Space Fenceprogram. Space Fence is capable of detecting more and much smaller objects in low earth orbit to provide greater… Continue reading
Olympics Air Security Chief thanks private pilots
The Air Component Commander for Operation OLYMPICS, Air Vice-Marshal Stuart Atha, has acknowledged the cooperation and efforts of the GA Community to comply with the Olympic airspace restrictions, including the need to file flight plans following the introduction of the… Continue reading
F-35B model lands at Edwards Air Force Base
BF-2 taxis in after arriving at Edwards AFB, Calif., July 23 in order to begin airstart testing at the 461st Flight Test Squadron. Marine Corps test pilot Lt. Col. Matt Kelly flew the aircraft from Naval Air Station Patuxent River,… Continue reading