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Air Force to move rescue, support training to Arizona, retire older A-10s
Jun 30, 2021 (UPI)
A proposed plan calls for transfer of rescue and attack missions, including A-10 Thunderbolt close air support planes and HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters, to Davis-...
Sikorsky to build nine more CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for U.S. Marines
Jun 28, 2021 (UPI)
The $878.7 million contract, announced in a statement on Friday, includes an option to build and deliver nine more of the aircraft at a lower price. The helicop...
F-22 training unit to move to Langley-Eustis AFB, Va.
Jun 28, 2021 (UPI)
The U.S. Congress was informed that an environmental analysis was completed, and a record of decision was submitted for relocation of the FTU. The base is the h...
Army soldiers get involved in helicopter design process
Jun 25, 2021 (UPI)
The active duty and National Guard soldiers of the brigade, headquartered at Fort Campbell, Ky., visited the Sikorsky Development Flight Center in West Palm Bea...
Florida-based space balloon company launches ticket sales
Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)
The company, Florida-based Space Perspective, plans up to 25 flights in the first year into what is the second major layer of the Earth's atmosphere and extends...
Flying in formation to reduce climate impact
Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)
The German Aerospace Center is investigating the possibility of transferring this principle to commercial aircraft on a large scale. As part of the Formation Fl...
Philippines grounds Black Hawk fleet after deadly crash
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
Three pilots and three airmen died when their S70-i went down near the Crow Valley training range north of Manila on Wednesday, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenza...
Current air transport climate targets insufficient for trend reversal
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
A research study led by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has now concluded that the CORSIA targets have the potentia...
Germany approves next phase of European fighter jet
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
The budget committee in the Bundestag lower house of parliament gave the green light for the project, known as the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), to progress ...
US Air Force selects Electra for ultra-short takeoff aircraft development
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
Leveraging distributed hybrid-electric propulsion and blown lift, Electra's unique eSTOL aircraft takes off in less than 150 feet, but also offers nearly triple...
Aviation's contribution to cutting climate change likely to be small
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
Aviation is an important contributor to the global economy, but contributes to climate change by creating carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as non-CO2 effects such a...
Shaw AFB F-16 squadron to train with Vermont Air National Guard F-35s
Jun 22, 2021 (UPI)
Training will begin Wednesday, when a small contingent of Shaw AFB's 20th Fighter Wing's 55th Fighter Squadron arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base, w...
British F-35s counter IS in first combat missions from HMS Queen Elizabeth
Jun 22, 2021 (UPI)
The F-35s of the 617 Squadron RAF conducted the missions from HMS Queen Elizabeth in support of British and U.S. ongoing military interventions against IS, the ...
NASA balloon detects California earthquake, next stop, Venus?
Jun 22, 2021 (JPL)
Between July 4 and July 6, 2019, a sequence of powerful earthquakes rumbled near Ridgecrest, California, triggering more than 10,000 aftershocks over a six-week...
Environmental cleanup ends after May crash of Navy jet
Jun 21, 2021 (UPI)
A Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft assigned to Training Squadron 22 of Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, struck another aircraft in a mid-air collisio...
Behind Airbus-Boeing truce lies a common rival: China
Jun 20, 2021 (AFP)
It took a common threat for the US and Europe to finally put an end to their dispute this past week, as the two sides signed a five-year truce suspending tit-fo...
B-52H bombers fly over the Arctic from Spain to Louisiana
Jun 18, 2021 (UPI)
The planes of the 2nd Bomb Wing -- normally stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. -- left Moron Air Base, Spain, and completed their 27,00-milke, 12-hour m...
Space tourism startup flies test balloon 20 miles high over Florida
Jun 18, 2021 (UPI)
The balloon lifted off at 5:23 a.m. EDT from the Space Coast Regional Airport near Kennedy Space Center and splashed down 6 hours and 39 minutes later in the Gu...
Searching for sources of noise on aircraft wings
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
To find out exactly where the greatest sources of noise are, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has tested a model fro...
Airbus responds to Air Force call for new tankers to replace Boeing's KC-46
Jun 17, 2021 (UPI)
This may be Airbus' chance to win a foothold in the American strategic tanker market, especially after the Biden administration and the European Union called a ...
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