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F-35A Successfully Completes High Angle Of Attack Testing (video)
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., May 16, 2013 – The latest in a series of Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35A high angle of attack (AOA) testing was recently completed. The testing accomplished high AOA beyond both the positive and negative maximum… Continue reading
Ukraine Will Continue With An-70 Project
KIEV, April 12 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine will continue its project to build Antonov An-70 tactical transport aircraft even if Russia withdraws from it, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Friday.
Dmytro Kyva, president of the Ukrainian state company… Continue reading
Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft Completes Flight Testing
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The Boeing (NYSE: BA) X-48C research aircraft flew for the 30th and final time April 9, marking the successful completion of an eight-month flight-test program to explore and further validate… Continue reading
Updated Laser Rangefinder/Designator From Northrop Grumman, DRS Technologies Completes Successful Flight Testing
System Offers Range Finding and Targeting Functions for Laser-Guided Weapons With Increased Reliability and Reduced Power Consumption |
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| APOPKA, Fla. – April 10, 2013 – Following flight testing at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Yuma, Ariz., the Mast Mounted Sight-Diode… Continue reading | ||
Boeing Completes Certification Testing for New 787 Battery System
EVERETT, Wash., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing (NYSE:BA) completed a 787 certification demonstration flight today on N1791B, line number 86, a Boeing-owned production airplane built for LOT Polish Airlines. Today’s flight marks the final certification test for the new… Continue reading
First Lockheed Martin F-35As Report to Nellis AFB for Operational Testing
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 19, 2013 – Four Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35A conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) aircraft were officially welcomed by the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. during a commemorative ceremony today.… Continue reading
Edwards AFB Airmen begin F-35 operational testing
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) — The F-35 Lightning II program here entered a new phase of testing with the arrival of the first two operational test aircraft March 6.
Team members from the 53rd Wing’s 31st Test and… Continue reading
Nellis pilots take first step toward F-35 operational testing
3/8/2013 – EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) — Two officers from the operational test community are among the six pilots in the first F-35 Lightning II pilot training course after an Air Education and Training Command decision to start… Continue reading
GE Aviation Delivers its First Production Wing Components for the Airbus A350 XWB; First A350 XWB is undergoing ground testing in Toulouse
GE Aviation, Hamble has achieved a major program milestone with the delivery of its initial production wing fixed trailing edge components for the first A350 XWB to fly – ‘MSN001.’ The first A350 XWB-MSN001 is now structurally complete and is… Continue reading
MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite Completes On-orbit Testing
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 5, 2013 — The MEXSAT Bicentenario satellite, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] partner Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB], has completed on-orbit testing and… Continue reading
First A350 XWB with wings complete emerges for outdoor testing
The first A350 XWB – MSN001 – now showing its completed wings, has moved to its next phase of ground testing, from Roger Béteille A350 XWB FAL “Station 30” to the Clément Ader area “Station 18” in Toulouse. The aircraft… Continue reading
NASA Set for New Round Of J-2X Testing at Stennis Space Center
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA’s progress toward a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of upcoming tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine, which will help power the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) to new… Continue reading