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NASA supercomputer simulations help improve aircraft propulsion design
Apr 15, 2016 (SPX)
NASA and aviation industry partners are collaborating on the development of green aviation technologies. One concept studied at NASA's Ames Research Center, in ...
India to pay $8.8 bn for Rafale fighter jets
Apr 15, 2016 (AFP)
India has agreed to pay $8.8 billion to France's Dassault for 36 fighter jets, reports said Friday, as sources from both countries hinted a long-delayed deal to...
Canadian company helps train German Air Force
Apr 15, 2016 (UPI)
Canada's Discovery Air Defence Services reports it has helped provide aggressor and dissimilar combat training to the German Air Force. The training in Germany ...
Chinese capital leaving as a jet plane
Apr 14, 2016 (AFP)
Some of China's wealthier investors are buying private jets to secure a mobile, dollar-denominated hedge against volatile financial markets and a declining yuan...
ASRAAM missile tests for F-35 underway
Apr 14, 2016 (UPI)
U.S. Air Force officials are pressing ahead with testing of the British-built Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles for the F-35 Lightning II. Service offici...
StandardAero to upgrade engines on C-130H aircraft
Apr 13, 2016 (UPI)
StandardAero has received a U.S. Air Force contract to overhaul the engine compressor and turbine modules of Rolls-Royce T56-A-15 engines that power its C-130H ...
F-22A Raptors heading to Europe
Apr 13, 2016 (UPI)
U.S. Air Force commanders are sending several F-22A Raptor fighter jets and their aircrews to Europe, to take part in large-scale military drills in the region....
'Robird' to scare birds away from airports
Apr 13, 2016 (UPI)
A life-like robotic falcon known as Robird is set to take to the skies surrounding Weeze Airport in Germany. Robird's mission is simple: scare birds away from W...
Boeing secures sustainment deal for Navy's F/A-18
Apr 12, 2016 (UPI)
Defense giant Boeing has inked a $93.8 million contract with the U.S. Navy to maintain and sustain the sea service's entire fleet of F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hor...
Algeria orders more Russian Mi-28NE Night Hunter helicopters
Apr 11, 2016 (UPI)
Military leaders in Algeria are dramatically escalating their planned buy of Russian-built Mi-28NE attack helicopters, more than quadrupling the number of aircr...
Air Force releases study on future air superiority
Apr 11, 2016 (UPI)
The gap between the U.S. military's air superiority capabilities and that of potential adversaries is narrowing, a U.S. Air Force study says. The solution to co...
Rheinmetall, Embraer reach deal on KC-390 training devices
Apr 11, 2016 (UPI)
Rheinmetall of Germany says it will design, build and supply a complete suite of training equipment for Brazil's KC-390 military transporter. The deal was clinc...
Boeing, Iran airlines in talks on new aircraft sales
Apr 11, 2016 (AFP)
US aerospace giant Boeing expressed caution Monday after executives held talks in Iran on providing new aircraft to Iranian carriers last week. Two months after...
China's HNA makes $1.5-bn offer for Swiss air catering firm
Apr 11, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese conglomerate HNA agreed to buy the Swiss airline catering company gategroup on Monday for 1.4 billion Swiss francs ($1.5 billion, 1.3 billion euros), in...
L-3 Link given Polish F-16 training support contract
Apr 08, 2016 (UPI)
L-3 Link Simulation & Training is to provide technical support services for the Polish Air Force's F-16 training program. The services, under the indefinite-del...
New system helps aircraft automatically avoid mid-air collisions
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
A research effort associated with DARPA's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program recently conducted the first successful flight tests of a s...
New insight into interaction of volcanic ash with jet engines
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Liverpool and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have developed a new method to assess the impact of volcanic ash on jet...
BAE, Lockheed UK building F-35 facilities for RAF
Apr 07, 2016 (UPI)
A BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin UK team are building facilities in Britain to handle the operations of F-35 Lightning II aircraft. Work on the facilities -- a...
Navy funds Boeing procurement of P-8A Poseidon components
Apr 06, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy is awarding Boeing a contract modification for acquisition of long-lead items for the manufacture and delivery of P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The Depa...
Kuwait signs contract for 28 Eurofighters
Apr 05, 2016 (AFP)
Kuwait and Finmeccanica signed Tuesday a contract for 28 Eurofighter "Typhoon" warplanes as the oil-rich Gulf state that is part of the anti-Islamic State coali...
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