Rolls-Royce has recorded a £4.6 billion ($5.7 billion) loss for 2016, mainly due to the pound’s decline in value after the UK’s June vote to leave the EU.
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, has been awarded a $18,290,920 modification (14) to previously awarded contract F33657‐01‐D‐0026‐RJ80 for Royal Saudi Air Force aircraft.
PAL-V of the Netherlands has unveiled its first production flying car, the Liberty, while U.S. company SkyRunner has begun sales of an off-road vehicle that can fly using a ram-air parafoil wing and pusher propeller.
A recent, lengthy journey by U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs traveling from Arizona to Japan has sparked a quiet debate within the Pentagon about how often the stealthy fighter needs to refuel during ocean crossings.
Saab is suggesting deep Indian involvement in the development of the proposed carrier-based version of the JAS 39E Gripen, a contender for New Delhi’s latest fighter requirement.
Following installation of its Gamekeeper UAV detection radar in Monaco, UK company Aveillant has sold a system to a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd.
Israel’s Elta is likely to be contracted this month for validation work in Hanwha’s program to develop an advanced radar for South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter.
BELL HELICOPTER has $49.1m U.S Navy contract for procurement of long-lead items and components for 27 Lot 15 AH-1Z aircraft for the Marine Corps through March 2018. SCHIEBEL has Royal Australian Navy contract for Camcopter S-100 System and three years of follow-on contractor logistics support.
As low Earth orbit gets crowded, classified national security spacecraft are becoming an open book, according to Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), a member of the House armed services and science committees. “Other nations have commercial capabilities with sensing capabilities, you know, telescopes and radars, and they’re seeing these things and they’re reporting them,” he told a recent FAA commercial space conference.
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As part of its plan to field a Quiet Supersonic Transport low-boom flight demo, NASA has issued a call for interested companies to submit a “capability statement.”
NASA has released a detailed scientific assessment of a potential mission to the intriguing Jovian moon Europa that would touch down on the icy moon in 2031.
Some production work resumed amid recovery activities at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 13, six days after a tornado swept across the 829-acre, 81-facility site.
The Turkish government has signed off on a development program for an indigenous turboshaft engine that could eventually go on to power Turkey’s T129 attack helicopter and future utility rotorcraft.
