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Aviation RSS FeedsLockheed Martin F-35A Achieves Another Milestone. - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.: The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35A successfully flew from Fort Worth, Texas, to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on Oct. 1 to begin expanded flight testing and initiate test activities at Edwards. Flying non-stop for more than 1,000 nautical miles, this was the aircraft’s first long-range, cross-country flight....Feed Source: planenews.com 30 Hurt on Singapore-Perth Qantas Flight. - Over 30 people were injured, some with broken bones and lacerations, when a Qantas passenger jet flying from Singapore to Perth struck turbulence on Tuesday and had to make an emergency landing at a remote Australian airport, officials said ... Brazilian Company Orders 23 Hawker Aircraft Worth $200M. - Hawker Beechcraft Corp. will sell 23 aircraft to Lider Signatures S.A., the aircraft maker announced Tuesday from the National Business Aviation Association convention in Orlando, Fla ... Pentagon Denies Iran Forced Down U.S. Plane. - TEHRAN (RIA Novosti): The U.S. Department of Defense denied Tuesday reports that Iran forced a U.S. warplane to land in Tehran. Iran’s Fars news agency said Iranian fighter jets had forced a U.S. military aircraft to land in Iran after it had entered its air space without permission. It said there were five military officers and three civilians on board the aircraft and that they were held for questioning and allowed to leave a day later ... Lockheed Martin Receives Contract for Four C-130J Super Hercules. - MARIETTA, Ga.: The State of Qatar has signed a $393.6 million contract with Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the purchase of four C-130J Super Hercules airlifters plus training and spares with deliveries to begin in 2011. Qatar’s new C-130Js will be the longer fuselage or "stretched" variant of the C-130J.... Esther Dyson to be Next High-Techie to Blast Into Space. - The multi-millionaire, high-tech entrepreneurs continue to flock to space. Private space exploration company Space Adventures today said Esther Dyson, an industry guru who has been involved in al manner of technology start-ups and digital ventures, will train as a back-up crew member alongside ex-Microsoft developer Charles Simonyi, Ph.D., who recently announced his second his second mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2009 ... Russia and 5 CIS Countries Formed Air Navigation Service. - Russia together with five CIS countries –
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have established an international air navigation service Vostok aimed at strengthening the flights safety ... What Would Obama and McCain Do About Aviation? - Our presidential candidates have not had much to say about aviation issues, but the next president will face a number of challenges in the sector. What do they think about the issues? What are their track records? Find out more about McCain, Obama, and aviation issues in 2008 at large ... EC120 Becomes Bestseller Light Turbine Helicopter in the U.S. - American Eurocopter announces that the single-engine EC120 has become the helicopter of choice for personal travel and corporate/VIP operators, outselling its competitors by more than two to one in this market segment during the past five years ... Inspections Ordered for A-10 Thunderbolt IIs. - WASHINGTON: Air Force officials have issued a time compliance technical order requiring immediate inspection and repair of wing cracks for a portion of the A-10 Thunderbolt II fleet. This action impacts approximately 130 A-10 aircraft with thin-skin wings installed during original manufacture and is being taken to ensure the continued operational safety of the aircraft ... Cessna Unveils New Columbus Mockup. - (The Wichita Eagle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX): Cessna Aircraft held a special unveiling of the mockup of its new $27 million Cessna Columbus large business jet for customers who have the new plane on order ... EADS North America to Provide U.S. Navy With UH-72 Light Utility Helicopters. - ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX): The U.S. Navy has become a new military user of the UH-72 Light Utility Helicopter, provided by EADS North America, with the service ordering five aircraft for use in pilot training at the Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland ... Seastar Makes a Splash at NBAA Show. - An unusual amphibious airplane, asleep for more than 15 years, may be resurrected under plans announced by Dornier Seaplane Company. The new company, founded by Conrado Dornier, grandson of Dornier Aircraft founder Claude Dornier, plans to dust off the plans for the Seastar, a large, in-line twin-engine turboprop amphib that was certified in the early 1990s but never put into production ... Researchers Want a Submersible Airplane. - This sounds like something straight out of a James Bond movie but no, it’s real and it’s your government: Those way out engineers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to build an aircraft that’s as capable of zipping through the sky as it is underwater. Full Story.... NASA Awards Future Vehicle Aircraft Research Contracts. - WASHINGTON: NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years.... How to Protect Yourself if an Airline Goes Bankrupt. - What do airlines and banks have in common? Answer: They can go bust overnight. What are the airline equivalents of Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs? Will governments bail out failing carriers in a similar way? If not, what can I do if I have booked a ticket with an airline that collapses?..... Improving Helicopter Safety. - In the Sept. 30 Metro story "Md. Copter Crash Scrutinized," about the crash of a Maryland State Police rescue helicopter around midnight Saturday, public health professor Susan P. Baker of Johns Hopkins University said that 15 to 20 percent of people who work regularly in helicopters for 20 years will die in helicopter crashes ... No User Fees This Year. - On Sept. 30, the very day that FAA funding was set to expire, President Bush signed the “Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2008,” which means the FAA has the money to continue operating until March 31, 2009 ... Russia's UAC Optimistic Over Indian Fighter Tender. - MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is optimistic about MiG-35 Fulcrum’s chances of winning a lucrative tender to supply 126 multirole fighters to the Indian air force, the company’s president said on Friday ... Moller Flying Car Auctioned on Ebay. - Moller International (OTC-BB: MLER) is offering its M200X for sale. The M200X volantor[1] was the first VTOL aircraft of its kind (flying car) to fly successfully and did so repeatedly during the 1980’s. The most important flight occurred on May 10, 1989 in front of the local, national and international press. This flight, shown on our website at http://www.moller.com/videom200x.htm, resulted in subsequent articles in Forbes, Discover, Popular Mechanics, USA Today and Esquire as well as TV appearances on Good Morning America, The History Channel, 60 Minutes, numerous times on The Discovery Channel and on the evening news with Peter Jennings ... Russia May Sign Helicopter Export Deal with Iran by Yearend. - MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): Kamov, one of Russia’s largest helicopter producers, is hoping to sign an agreement by the end of the year to export its helicopters to Iran, the company’s director said on Friday. Roman Chernyshev said that the agreement is for "supplies of civil rather than military helicopters."..... Human Remains Found at Fossett Crash Site. - Federal investigators said Thursday they found human remains amid the wreckage of missing adventurer Steve Fossett’s airplane in the mountains of eastern California. The remains were found among a field of debris that stretched 400 feet long and 150 feet wide in a steep section of the Sierra Nevada. Some personal effects also were found at the crash site but investigators would not describe them in any detail ... Virgin Galactic Rejects Million-Dollar Offer to Film Sex Video. - GLASGOW, Scotland: The private company planning to take wealthy tourists to the edge of the atmosphere starting in late 2009 or early 2010 has refused a million-dollar proposal to film a sex video while the participants are floating gravity free, the company’s president said ... NASA at 50: The Shuttle, Space Station and Beyond. - One vehicle’s operative life is coming to a close, while the other’s is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station’s (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened ... Russia's Strategic Bombers to Drill With Full Combat Payloads. - MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): Russian strategic bombers will conduct training flights with full combat payloads and live fire all cruise missiles on board for the first time in over two decades, an Air Force spokesman said ... Sukhoi Starts Testing 2nd Su-35 Fighter Prototype. - MOSCOW (RIA Novosti): Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft maker has started flight tests of the second Su-35 Flanker multirole fighter to expedite the completion of the testing program, the company said on Thursday ... Arik Air Orders Three A340-500 Airbus Aircraft. - Arik Air, the growing private airline based in Lagos, Nigeria, has signed a firm contract for the purchase of three Airbus A340-500s. This order makes Arik Air the 10th and latest customer for the A340-500 ... US Encourages Brazil to Buy F-18 Fighter Jets. - SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP): The U.S. Embassy said Thursday that it is encouraging Brazil to buy Boeing-built F-18 Super Hornet fighter jets, one of three models selected by Latin America’s largest nation as finalists for a fleet revamp ... Bush Signs NASA Budget, Soyuz Waiver Into Law. - WASHINGTON: NASA now has the legal ability to conclude a new deal with Russia for the three-person Soyuz vehicles it will need to ensure U.S., Canadian, European and Japanese astronauts can fly to the International Space Station beyond 2011 ... Historic WWII Ford Airplane to Go Under the Hammer. - This rare 1929 Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor airplane is set to be auctioned in a No Reserve sale by the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company in January 2009. Recently restored to its original specifications, the plane has a fascinating history, having survived bullet fire during the World War II attack at Pearl Harbor ... SkyCatcher Flight Testing to Continue with Reconfigured P-1. - Cessna Aircraft Company will resume flight testing of the Model 162 SkyCatcher as soon as it reconfigures another test aircraft, says Angela Landwehr, manager of media relations. The original prototype, which had more than 100 flights and 128 flight hours on it, was lost when it crashed two weeks ago during a power-on, cross-controlled spin test. The installed BRS system did not properly deploy, she said, so the test pilot successfully bailed out and parachuted to safety ... NTSB Investigating Crash Believed to be Steve Fosset's Aircraft. - The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched investigators to California to investigate the crash of a small plane that was found yesterday that appears to be the aircraft piloted by adventurer Steve Fossett.... Petite, Square 1lb Satellites to Rule Outer Space. - Small, inexpensive cube-shaped satellites could be all the space rage if researchers have their way. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant to SRI International to tackle the first mission of the tiny flying quadrangles known as CubeSats which are tiny satellites with dimensions of 10×10×10 centimeters, weighing a little less than 3lbs that typically use commercial off-the-shelf electronics components ... Lockheed Marting F-22 Raptor Reaches Milestone in Maturity. - MARIETTA, Georgia: The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-22 Raptor surpassed more than 50,000 total flight hours in August while establishing new standards in capability and maturity. "The F-22 continues to demonstrate the field performance vital to an operational weapon system," said Larry Lawson, Lockheed Martin executive vice president and F-22 general manager. "The fleet reliability measures are ahead of plan and the force-on-force exercises have shown Raptors provide the capability to dominate airspace today and in the future."... Russian Plane Maker Sukhoi Calls for Infrastructure Overhaul. - KHABAROVSK (RIA Novosti): Russia’s aircraft industry needs comprehensive infrastructural reforms to enable it to compete successfully on the global market, the head of the Sukhoi aircraft producer said on Tuesday. "Partial modernization and reform will ensure neither a technological nor commercial effect - this is just money down the drain," Mikhail Pogosyan said ... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |