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U.K. test pilot completes first F-35B vertical landing
Royal Air Force Squadron Leader James Schofield completed the first vertical landing by a United Kingdom military test pilot May 28, 2013 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. Schofield flew F-35B Lightning II test aircraft BF-1.
The F-35B is… Continue reading
Fokker Services and DynamicSource AB launch aircraft take-off and landing performance calculation application for iPad®
Fokker Services and DynamicSource AB have jointly developed an iOS Application to run FORTRAN Take-Off and Landing SCAP modules on the Apple iPad®. The app allows an operator to make the performance calculations shortly before take-off and therefore allows the… Continue reading
9/11 plane landing gear found in lower Manhattan
A part of the landing gear, apparently from one of the commercial airliners destroyed on September 11, 2001, is seen wedged between two buildings in New York in this handout photo released by the NYPD on April 26, 2013.
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F-35B Conducts First Night Time Vertical Landing
An F-35B Lightning II completed the first short takeoff and vertical landing during a test mission at night to expand the flight envelope and deliver capability to the warfighter.
Marine Corps test pilot Maj. C.R. Clift conducted the flight April… Continue reading
Fokker Services performs Fokker 50 Landing Gear overhauls for Air Panama
At the first day of the ALTA Airline Leaders Forum in Panama City, the largest event of its nature for the Latin American and Caribbean commercial Aviation industry, Air Panama has signed a contract with Fokker Services for the landing… Continue reading
China first landing on aircraft carrier
China has successfully conducted flight landing on its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, naval sources said.
A new J-15 fighter jet was used as part of the landing exercise.
After its delivery to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on… Continue reading
Forced landing in NW China after terror warning
An International passenger plane made a forced landing in northwest China’s Gansu province on Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymous terrorist threat, airline and local security sources confirmed.
China Southern Airlines sources told Xinhua that the plane, CZ680, traveling from… Continue reading
NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Curiosity Beside Martian Mountain
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.… Continue reading
Norwegian Air Shuttle becomes Boeing’s Largest Landing Gear Exchange Customer
Boeing today announced that Norwegian Air Shuttle, the third largest low-cost airline in Europe , has become the largest customer for the Boeing landing gear exchange program with a new service contract covering an additional 15 Next-Generation 737s.
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Mitsubishi Aircraft Receives MRJ Landing Gear for Function Test
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation has received the landing gear from Sumitomo Precision Products Co. Ltd. for use at the MRJ (Mitsubishi Regional Jet) in-house function test.
The landing gear consists of components such as shock strut, tire assembly and braking system.… Continue reading
Space Station crew landed in Kazakhstan
A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, mission control said.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers have spent… Continue reading
Shenzhou IX spacecraft has landed safely
The Shenzhou IX spacecraft has landed safely at the main landing area in northern China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region and all three astronauts aboard are in good physical condition, said Chang.
Three astronauts who fulfilled China’s first manned space docking… Continue reading