AEROSPACE - INDO DAILY

Climate change can't halt Vienna third runway: court

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

Judges found that the earlier verdict had violated the constitution, noting that the environment did not hold "absolute priority" over other factors. In Februar...

Australia seeks specially-equipped Gulfstream aircraft

Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)

The G550s, obtained through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program, would be equipped with airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and electronic ...

Another approach to developing flying cars

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

The problem is that robots that are good at one mode of transportation are usually bad at another. Airborne drones are fast and agile, but generally have too li...

South Korean Coast Guard receives second S-92 helicopter

Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)

The company announced on Tuesday that the new rotorcraft will join an S-92 that has been in service with South Korea's Coast Guard since 2014, where it has part...

State Department approves India for C-17 buy

Jun 27, 2017 (UPI)

Required notification of the possible sale, worth $366.2 million, was given to Congress on Monday by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which manages the ...

NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane

Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)

Senior experts and engineers from across the agency and the Lockheed Martin Corporation concluded Friday that the QueSST design is capable of fulfilling the LBF...

Chinese passenger chucks coins into plane's engine for luck

Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)

The elderly woman was detained by police at Shanghai Pudong International Airport following the bizarre incident, forcing nearly 150 passengers to be evacuated ...

German military receives final H145M helicopter from Airbus

Jun 27, 2017 (UPI)

The H145M, previously designated the EC645 T2, is a light utility and light attack aircraft. The German military was Airbus' launch customer for the helicopter ...

Oman receives first Eurofighter Typhoon

Jun 24, 2017 (UPI)

Commander of the Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Mattar bin Ali bin Mattar Al Obaidani was present for the ceremony on Wednesday at Adam Air Base in Oman. The ...

MiG pushing for exports of the MiG-35 fighter

Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)

"The government trials go according to the schedule and should be completed at the end of 2017, beginning of 2018," MiG CEO Ilya Tarasenko told Aviation Week's ...

French police tap Airbus for additional EC145 helicopter

Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)

The EC145, with specific mission equipment such as a search light and hoist, will be delivered next year. The Gendarmerie Nationale currently operates 14 EC145s...

Britain readies base for arrival of F-35 jets next year

Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)

The award for the infrastructure upgrade at RAF Markham is worth more than $170.6 million, and was given to a joint venture of British companies Galliford Try a...

Boeing receives $411 million Apache contract for Britain

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

The contract calls for the sale of 38 Apache attack helicopters, three crew trainers for the Longbow variant of the aircraft, and spares for both systems. Work ...

Grounded US F-35s to resume flying after oxygen problem

Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)

Investigators were unable to identify a root cause of the issue, which had prompted the 56th Fighter Wing of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona to ground its F-35s. "...

Sikorsky receives CH-53D contract from Israel for parts, services

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

The program is slated to last 7 years and will procure and deliver obsolete or diminished supply parts. Israel has operated the helicopter since 1969 and is the...

Northrup Grumman to upgrade F-16 radars

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

The APG-83s will be the active electronically scanned array for 72 ANG F-16s to meet a U.S. Northern Command Joint Emergent Operational Need for homeland defens...

Chinese and Russians aim to end Airbus-Boeing duopoly

Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)

"For decades there were just two families of competing aircraft in the single-aisle segement, the A320 and the 737" built by Airbus and Boeing, said Stephane Al...

Navy orders review, oversight of oxygen problems on T-45, F/A-18

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

The review was meant to determine what factors lead to the incidents, including command, control, and communications, oxygen systems, cabin pressurization, prop...

Congress considering restart of F-22 program

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

"I can confirm that we received the report and are reviewing it," HASC spokesman Barron Youngsmith told UPI, declining to comment further due to the classified ...

Lockheed Martin still moving F-16 production to South Carolina

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

"Our original plans to move F-16 production to Greenville have not changed," John Losinger, spokesman for the F-16 program at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, told ...