U.K. light aircraft manufacturer e-Go Aeroplanes has handed over its first serial aircraft, marking the formal start of production of its e-Go ultralight.
There is nothing wrong or underhanded about the private discussion between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk scheduled for June 7, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
The first U.S. Army heavy attack reconnaissance squadron to deploy operationally with teams of Boeing AH-64 Apaches and Textron Systems RQ-7Bv2 Shadow unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has returned home from Iraq.
HARTFORD, Conn.—UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) stated that its focus on increasingly more-electric, intelligent and integrated aircraft systems will help drive a 6% annual compounded growth rate through 2020.
U.S. nuclear forces still anchor their global defensive posture with the traditional triad of land-based ICBMs, strategic bombers and nuclear missile submarines, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) says.
DIEHL DEFENSE and ELBIT SYSTEMS expanded their cooperation on Directional Infrared Countermeasures (Dircm) self-protection system beyond Bundeswehr AIRBUS A400Ms to include self-defense systems for combat- and military transport helicopters. NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $62.4m U.S. Navy contract for operation and maintenance services in support of Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator (BAMS-D) program. FOKKER will produce and support landing gear for GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS INC. Predator B/MQ-9 UAV.
Sixteen of San Francisco-based Planet Labs’ latest Dove CubeSats completed a three-day deployment cycle from the International Space Station late June 1. The small Earth-imaging satellites were deployed two at a time using NanoRacks commercial deployment hardware beginning May 30 at 7:40 a.m. EDT. The activities were complete with the eighth deployment on June 1 at 10:15 p.m. EDT. The Planet Labs’ Dove Flock 2 e and Flock 2 e prime satellites were delivered to the ISS earlier this year aboard a NASA-contracted Orbital ATK Cygnus re-supply mission.
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United Technologies will ramp up efforts to cut costs from its supply chain as one of the pillars to delivering financial and customer performance in coming years, CEO and President Greg Hayes told reporters June 6.
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and a Russian cosmonaut floated into the Bigelow Expandable Activities Module (BEAM) early June 6, initiating a two-year evaluation of the human-rated, reinforced-fabric prototype habitat.
The recent midair collision between two F/A-18F Super Hornets is the costliest mishap for the U.S. Navy so far this fiscal decade, and combined with the fatal F/A-18C Hornet Blue Angels crash earlier this month puts the Navy on pace for its most expensive year for incidents during that time, an Aviation Week analysis of Navy Safety Center record shows.
The fatal June 3 mishap involving an F/A-18C Hornet underscore the rarity of such incidents for the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, which excels in making some of the riskiest aerial maneuvers in the safest manner.
China plans to develop airlifters comparable with the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxy or even Antonov An-225 Mriya, the China Daily says, giving no time frame.
The South Korean government and key aerospace companies have made the low-risk choice of the Safran Arriel 2 as the engine for the LCH-LAH civil and military helicopter family under development by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI).
The U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and American ballistic missile defense (BMD) systems are helping stitch together a security net for the U.S. and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says.
Sikorsky’s entry into Darpa’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.
The decision by offshore helicopter operator CHC to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will impact other industry players, Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury says.
