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India greenlights purchase of 33 Russian fighter jets
Jul 02, 2020 (AFP)
The purchase of 21 MiG-29 and 12 SU-30 MKI, as well as upgrades to 59 existing MiG-29s, was to "augment" the Indian Air Force's combat squadrons, the ministry o...
Lockheed Martin Delivers F-35 Distributed Mission Training Capability
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
The F-35 DMT capability creates interoperability across military platforms for continuation training and large force exercises. The initial delivery at Nellis A...
Sierra Nevada Corp. nabs $700M to supply RFCMs for Special Ops
Jul 02, 2020 (UPI)
According to the contract, the systems, designed to "help protect aircrews from air- and land-based enemy radar and missile systems," will be integrated onto AC...
UN agency cuts airlines some slack on CO2 emissions
Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to change the baseline year used for calculating emissions under the 2016 d...
Navy awards $360M to Lockheed for 4 F-35Cs
Jun 30, 2020 (UPI)
The deal funds the procurement of four F-35C Carrier Variant Lot 14 aircraft, a long-range stealth strike fighter built explicitly for carrier operations. Accor...
GE lands $101.3M to build engines for F-15EX aircraft
Jun 30, 2020 (UPI)
The deal funds the purchase and delivery of F110-GE-129 engines for the aircraft. That includes installs, spare parts and monitoring engine monitoring system co...
Airmen at Eielson AFB, Alaska, start building bombs for F-35As
Jun 29, 2020 (UPI)
About 70 bombs were constructed, using an assembly line process, by the munitions personnel of the base's 354th Fighter Wing Maintenance Squadron between June 1...
Iran to send black boxes of downed Ukraine jet to France
Jun 26, 2020 (AFP)
Iran has requested help with repairing and downloading data from the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Flight Data Recorder of the Ukraine International Airlines F...
F-35 restricted from flying in lightning over fuel system issue
Jun 24, 2020 (UPI)
The company halted deliveries of its F-35 jets to the U.S. Air Force for much of June, but announced that two were delivered on Tuesday. The F-35A, the most wid...
Bye Aerospace's eFlyer 2 technology demonstrator begins next phase of flight tests
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, said the flight test program is focused on collecting flight envelope engineering data for the three propellers being consi...
LNAS pilot assistance system enables quieter and more fuel-efficient landing approaches
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
Approach and landing are among the most labour-intensive flight phases. Pilots have to manage airspeed, altitude, engine thrust, and the deployment of flaps, ai...
Flight trials for greener aviation set for take off
Jun 21, 2020 (ESA)
As nations begin to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and airports start to reopen in Europe, satellite communications provider Inmarsat and consultancy fir...
Green aviation still has electrifying future despite virus
Jun 19, 2020 (AFP)
What promises have been made on pollution? Aviation accounts for around two percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the major greenhouse gas...
Space tourists might rise above Earth with hydrogen balloons
Jun 19, 2020 (UPI)
At 20 miles up, Space Perspective's observation capsule would reach about one-third of the way to outer space, but passengers could see the blackness above and ...
B-2 Spirit stealth bombers join Norwegian F-35s for Arctic Circle flight
Jun 18, 2020 (UPI)
"NATO's 5th-gen(eration) capability and integration is critical for air superiority and enables precision engagement in the most highly contested environments,"...
F/A-18F launched from USS Theodore Roosevelt crashes into Philippine Sea
Jun 18, 2020 (UPI)
The crash occurred while the Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing 11 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, was conducting routine pilot proficiency training, the ...
U.S. Navy graduates its first F-35C TOPGUN class
Jun 17, 2020 (UPI)
Maj. Derek Heinz and Lt. William Goodwin completed the 13-week Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor course at the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Cente...
Navy receives first two Block III F/A-18 Super Hornets
Jun 17, 2020 (UPI)
"The aircraft will be used for carrier suitability and integration testing of all Block III mission system components," Steve Wade of Boeing said in a statement...
Pilot's body recovered after US fighter jet crashes off UK coast
Jun 15, 2020 (AFP)
"The pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing has been located, and confirmed deceased," said a statement released on the RAF Lakenheath Faceb...
Denmark to compensate homeowners for excessive noise from F-35s
Jun 12, 2020 (UPI)
"A broad political majority consisting of the Left, Conservatives, the Danish People's Party, the Liberal Alliance, the Radical Left, and the Social Democracy i...
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