The Polish defense ministry says it will initiate a new program for a fleet of multi-role helicopters following cancellation of a deal with Airbus Helicopters for 50 H225M Caracals.
Lockheed Martin Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider compound helicopter prototype has flown with retracted landing gear for the first time as envelope expansion continues toward a design speed of 220 kt. and faster.
NASA has developed a concept for a small secondary payload on the planned “Europa Clipper” mission that would dip as low as 2 km above the Jupiter moon’s icy surface to sample ocean-ice fragments that could contain the chemical signatures of life.
The U.S. Navy has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the development of a tri-band telemetry system for its Gulfstream G550-based range support aircraft.
Radiation exposures that human explorers are likely to encounter from galactic cosmic radiation on deep space missions to the Martian environs appear responsible for long-term brain damage in rodents that served as human analogue subjects in ground-based experiments.
Raytheon Missile Systems says it has begun developing a more modular and easily manufactured “Multi-Mission Coyote” UAV and has already flown several “primitive prototypes,” with more iterations to come in 2017.
Amidst growing talk of the Philippines abandoning long-term ties with U.S., the country’s air force took delivery of a single C-130 Hercules transporter on Oct. 9.
Triumph Group is relocating operations from Grandview, Missouri, to a newly-built facility in Edgerton, Kansas, to accommodate growth and new technology.
Boeing CH-47F Chinook production will dip to 40 aircraft per year as the company enters a Block II development program that doesn’t hit the production line until 2021.
The U.S. Army wants a next-generation Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) capability that will allow attack helicopter crews to control any unmanned systems in the battlespace.
As the Sierra Nevada Corp./Embraer A-29 Super Tucano begins battling the Taliban, the U.S. Air Force is laying the contractual foundation for the production of another four aircraft for the Afghan air arm.
The powerful storm cleared KSC at mid-morning Oct. 7, leaving what appeared to be limited roof damage to buildings and other facilities, disrupted electrical and water utilities and scattered debris, according to NASA.
Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, has set Oct. 19 as the new launch date for the Soyuz MS-02 with a three-man U.S. and Russian crew to the International Space Station.
The program will beef-up the Chinook by introducing an Advanced Composite Rotor Blade and increasing the aircraft’s maximum gross takeoff weight from 50,000 lb. to 54,000 lb.
South Korea’s Kill Chain program to create a capability for pre-empting North Korean attack has come under criticism for unbalanced spending and technical shortcomings.
GKN, which builds the airframe of the Wildcat, sent its workers home early on Oct. 7 after announcing to the 300-strong workforce that Leonardo plans to take the work in-house.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has lifted its grounding of Airbus’ EC225/H225 and AS332L2 Super Puma helicopters imposed after the fatal crash of an aircraft in Norway in April. But British and Norwegian civil aviation authorities are maintaining their grounding.
In this week’s Washington Outlook, research funding for advanced helicopter engines; the SpaceX-ULA spat; managing risk at the border and the hunt for counter-UAV technology.
