Britain’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy are growing their presence at MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina as they prepare to introduce the F-35 into service.
The Navy has developed and started to field two major improvements for the F-18 aircraft line breathing systems that service officials say are making a difference for air crews and helping to cut down on hypoxia or other similar episodes.
While the Navy has been investigating reports of possible breathing-related incidents across the spectrum of F-18 aircraft, certain types of issues or causes seemed to related to aircraft type, service officials say.
U.S. plans to sell Pakistan another eight F-16s may have survived a congressional challenge, but Lockheed Martin still faces a gap in the production line before the aircraft are delivered in 2019.
With two Sikorsky CH-53Ks now in flight testing, a key operational test to validate the heavy-lift helicopter’s performance is planned by year’s end to support a production decision in mid-2017.
Integration with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s logistics software program may delay the U.S. Air Force’s ability to declare the platform ready for operations on Aug. 1 as scheduled.
New NASA science projects packed away for launching to the International Space Station late this month will attempt to further the agency’s deep space exploration ambitions.
Components for the first LM-100J commercial freighter version of Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter are being manufactured, with final assembly to begin in Marietta, Georgia, later this year.
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has picked four concepts for generating electricity from dim sunlight at low temperatures for more study aimed at powering spacecraft without nuclear power sources in deep-space regions that normally require them.
Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft last year will play a significant role in the giant defense contractor’s pre-existing goal of deriving a quarter of its annual revenue from international sales, according to Lockheed’s chief executive.
A failure by helicopter pilots to monitor instruments and make use of onboard automated systems were key factors in the loss of a CHC Scotia-operated AS332L2 Super Puma off the Shetland Islands in 2013, U.K. crash investigators have concluded.
Airbus Helicopters is set to certify a new lightweight health and usage monitoring system (HUMS), finally opening the technology to light helicopter operators.
Ahead of its certification firing trials, the weaponized configuration of India’s indigenous Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) TD-3 recently executed the successful firing of 70-mm rockets.
A Russian Proton-M/Briz-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 14 carrying the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission en route to the Red Planet.
Airbus has offered to transfer the final assembly line of its AS565 MBe Panther from France to India if it wins the bid for the country’s proposed naval utility helicopter (NUH).
Space marathoner Scott Kelly will retire from NASA on April 1, one month after setting two U.S. spaceflight records aboard the International Space Station and 20 years after his selection to the agency’s astronaut corps.
French aerospace and defense firm Safran is looking at “potential options” for its security business after announcing plans to sell off its airport explosive detection business.
An Australian company is proposing retractable floats for the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules to create a U.S. equivalent of the TA600 amphibious aircraft under development by Avic.
The National Aeronautic Association has selected the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory team responsible for the Dawn mission to the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres as the recipient of the 2015 Collier Trophy.
A prototype of a laser system that enables UAVs to downlink data at high speed without complex equipment on the vehicle has been flight tested in the U.K.
