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Navy taps General Electric for F/A-18 engines

Apr 04, 2018 (UPI)

The $91.6 million contract modification will pay for 24 F414-GE-400 engines, to be installed in F/A-18 aircraft, according to a Defense Department news release....

NASA X-Plane construction set to begin

Apr 04, 2018 (SPX)

For the first time in decades, NASA aeronautics is moving forward with the construction of a piloted X-plane, designed from scratch to fly faster than sound wit...

NASA hires Lockheed Martin to build quiet, supersonic plane

Apr 03, 2018 (AFP)

The $247.5 million contract allows for the design, building and testing of a plane that would make its first test flight in 2021, NASA said. The experimental pl...

Pilot dies in Myanmar military plane crash

Apr 03, 2018 (AFP)

A live video on Facebook showed flames billowing up from the crash site near Kyunkone village about an hour away from the capital Naypyidaw. Local people found ...

Navy taps Lockheed Martin for more F-35 support

Apr 03, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $211.2 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The agreement ...

Boeing awarded $1.1B for Super Hornets for Kuwait

Apr 02, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $1.165 billion under the terms of an undefinitized contract action. The agreemen...

Boeing tapped for F-15 radar upgrades

Mar 30, 2018 (UPI)

The $187.3 million contract modification centers on the Air Force's F-15 Radar Modernization Program. The contract includes work on group A and group B kits, Gr...

Raytheon awarded contract for parts on Navy's H-60 helicopters

Mar 28, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $84.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-priced delivery order. The agreem...

Navy taps Boeing for services on Hornet, Growler aircraft

Mar 28, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $34.4 million under the terms of a previously issued firm-fixed-price, cost-plu...

China Southern Airlines profit boosted by domestic growth, yuan

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

Net profit hit 5.96 billion yuan ($950 million) on an 11 percent increase in revenue to 127 billion yuan, the Guangzhou-based airline said in a filing late Mond...

In a trade war, aviation giant Boeing could be a sitting duck

Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)

At this Boeing manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina -- which President Donald Trump visited a year ago to cries of "God Bless Boeing" -- the trade ...

United Technologies wins contract for F-35 engines

Mar 26, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $239.6 million under the terms of an advanced acquisition contract. The agreemen...

Japan's E-2D program to receive training, support from Northrop Grumman

Mar 26, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $13.8 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract. The agreement enab...

Mahathir raises 'remote takeover' theory in MH370 mystery

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

The Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people -- mostly from China -- on board while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. No sign of t...

Navy awards $102.8M for additional V-22 Osprey support

Mar 23, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $102.8 million under the terms of a modified contract that definitize delivery...

Airbus Helicopters tapped for additional UH-72A helicopters

Mar 23, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $116.9 million under the terms of a modified contract. The agreement between t...

Lockheed Martin to support F-35 programs in U.S., U.K.

Mar 20, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $8.5 million under the terms of a modified contract to a previous issued order o...

China to build 'world's fastest' wind tunnel

Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)

Wind tunnels test how air will pass over a solid object, helping designers improve aerodynamics or reduce stress points for objects as they reach high speeds. S...

NASA Glenn tests aircraft engines in an ice crystal environment

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

In January, NASA's Glenn Research Center began testing an aircraft engine in a high-altitude ice crystal environment, to explore a relatively new phenomenon cal...

The view from inside supersonic combustion

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

But in supersonic engines achieving the right flow speed, producing the right ratio of evaporated fuel and causing ignition at the right time is more complex. W...