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Chinese relatives frustrated by MH370 report

Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)

The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished in March 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard, most of them from China. Chinese relatives...

Lockheed receives $171M contract for F-35 production

Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)

The modification, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, allows for the procurement of diminishing manufacturing sources redesign activities in support...

GE awarded $650M contract for F/A-18 engine support

Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)

Work on the contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, will be performed at several GE plants and in Jacksonville, Fla., and is expected to be co...

Boeing receives contract for French E-3F AWACS upgrades

Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)

The modification, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, provides the AWACS fleet with 40 mission and 17 ground-system software changes. The contract...

Boeing receives $186.2 million order for F/A-18 spare parts

Aug 01, 2018 (UPI)

Work on the contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Missouri and is expected be completed by June 28, 2024. The order w...

BAE Systems receives order for Black Hawk GPS display units

Jul 31, 2018 (UPI)

The ASN-128 is an all-weather navigation system that lets Black Hawk pilots view real-time flight plans. It is designed to be resistant to GPS jammers, but will...

Anger as MH370 report offers no new clues to aviation's greatest mystery

Jul 30, 2018 (AFP)

In a long-awaited report the official investigation team pointed to failings by air traffic controllers, said the course of the Malaysia Airlines plane was chan...

First Apache, Chinook helicopters for India take first flights

Jul 30, 2018 (UPI)

India is purchasing 22 AH-64E Apache attack and 15 CH-47F Chinook transport helicopters from Boeing, with the announcement of the first flights of each a major ...

Elbit contracted for V-22 Osprey display systems

Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)

The order, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will provide 120 displays for V-22 production aircraft and Common Configuration and Modernization re...

Lockheed receives contract for LANTIRN targeting and navigation pods

Jul 27, 2018 (UPI)

This contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, provides for production, sustainment and repairs for LANTIRN foreign military sales customers. T...

Conti receives contract for hardened aircraft shelters for Israel

Jul 26, 2018 (UPI)

The award, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, comes under a firm-fixed-price foreign military sales contract, with Conti selected from three bidd...

Iraqi Airways suspends pilots who fought in-flight over food

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

The row erupted on a flight to the capital Baghdad from the Iranian city of Mashhad, with 157 travellers on board plus crew. "Conversation with the pilot became...

Hamilton Sundstrand wins contract for Osprey repair

Jul 26, 2018 (UPI)

Work will be performed in Rockford, Ill., and is scheduled to be completed by July 2021. Navy capital funds will be obligated on an order-by-order basis and fun...

Two pilots killed in Vietnam military plane crash

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

The pilots were on a training drill when their aircraft crashed around midday in Nghe An province, a local police officer told AFP. "The two pilots were killed,...

Air China Paris-Beijing flight turns back over false terror alarm

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

Air China had said earlier that flight CA876 returned to Paris after the airline "received suspected terrorist information," giving no further information on th...

Airbus profits halved but hopes to meet delivery target

Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)

Net income for the period more than halved to 496 million euros ($582 million) from 1.09 billion last year including "a negative impact from the foreign exchang...

Alsalam awarded $59.7M contract for Saudi F-15 upgrades

Jul 25, 2018 (UPI)

The contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, enables the continued shift to the F-15SA, which at the time of its debut was called one of the mo...

BAE receives contract for airborne electronic warfare jammers

Jul 24, 2018 (UPI)

The order, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, provides engineering, testing and delivery of hardware, software and data services for production of t...

BAE wins $7.8 million contract for F-35 software

Jul 23, 2018 (UPI)

The modification provides for technical validation and verification, representatives for services in the field and software development. The contract will be in...

NASA, French Aerospace Lab to Collaborate on Sonic Boom Prediction Research

Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)

NASA and ONERA agreed to collaborate on research predicting where sonic booms will be heard as supersonic aircraft fly overhead. This could lead to alleviating ...