UTVA AVIO INDUSTRIJA, Serbia, was selected by PIAGGIO AEROSPACE to supply two marry-up jigs for its final assembly line at Villanova d’Albenga, Italy for installation by mid-2015; one jig will be dedicated for military aircraft and one for business aircraft. VICTREX plans to build major Polymer Innovation Center in northern England after securing $2m grant from U.K. Govt for project.
MSubs, a specialist small-submersible company with U.K. and U.S. facilities, is proposing a coastal-patrol submarine with a displacement of 275 tons and has shown the design at the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi. Named Dreadnought, the submarine would be an order of magnitude larger than typical special operations submersibles and several times smaller and less costly than full-sized diesel-electric submarines now on the market.
BAE’s company-owned Hawk, ZJ951, will begin flying with some of these technologies in September, a senior BAE Systems executive told Aviation Week at the IDEX show in Abu Dhabi.
A small quantity of water detected in the spacesuit helmet worn by U.S. astronaut Terry Virts following his nearly 7-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Feb. 25 once again raised concerns over the shuttle-era garments.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) apparently will leave his tea party activism to other venues as he takes up the helm of the subcommittee that oversees the U.S. civil space program, opting instead to keep NASA focused on the ongoing public and private spacecraft-development programs hammered out between Congress and the White House.
The order will not add a new type to the army’s fleet, because the army has also ordered six EC145s in the type’s military utility version, the UH-72A Lakota.
Named Dreadnought, the submarine would be an order of magnitude larger than typical special operations submersibles and several times smaller and less costly than full-sized diesel-electric submarines now on the market.
“Over the lives of these contracts, we’re going to be paying less for energy than we do today using traditional sources of energy,” U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says.
India will soon finalize a platform for developing its indigenous Airborne Warning and Control Systems Aircraft (AWACS), with Airbus Defense and Space apparently emerging as the sole bidder with its A330 widebody aircraft.
They also made other preparations for changes to the station’s U.S. segment this year that will clear the way for the arrival of Boeing and SpaceX-launched capsules carrying astronauts.
The new spacecraft, both of which are to be launched atop Falcon 9 rockets in 2017, include the SES-14 hybrid propulsion satellite to be built by Airbus Defense and Space, and the SES-16/GovSat spacecraft contracted to Orbital/ATK.
Indian defense ministry aircraft designers have frozen the configuration of a proposed medium-weight Indian fighter that they expect to fly early in the 2020s.
Developed and built for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, Sentinel-2A is designed to image the Earth’s landmass from an orbit at 786 km (488.4 mi.) altitude for a design life of 7-12 years.
Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey is leaving her position to become CEO and president of RRNA at the company’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters, and chair its U.S. board of directors.
Brazilian light aircraft company Novaer is looking for further investment to develop its new modular training aircraft for the commercial and military market.
