Lockheed Martin test pilot Al Norman was at the controls for the first flight of F-35A AF-31 (US Air Force serial number 11-5020). The flight occurred on 7 September 2013 with takeoff and landing at NAS Fort Worth JRB, Texas. Source / Author / Photo: Lockheed Martin
The Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. [NYSE: TXT] and Boeing [NYSE: BA], has successfully completed an initial test of the V-22 Osprey performing as an aerial refueling tanker. Adding this capability to the tiltrotor aircraft would further advance its versatility in combat, humanitarian and ship-based operations. In the … Dowiedz się więcej
Airbus Military has completed an important set of trials of the A400M new generation airlifter, demonstrating the aircraft’s excellent performance on gravel runways. In tests lasting more than a week at Ablitas in northern Spain, development aircraft MSN2 performed 25 landings during six flights on the same runway. The trials confirmed that despite the harsh … Dowiedz się więcej
Embraer Defense & Security held the delivery ceremony, today, for the first modernized A-1 (A-1M) fighter jet to the Brazilian Air Force (FAB) at its industrial plant in Gavião Peixoto, in outstate São Paulo. The event was attended by the Aeronautics Commander, Air Force General Juniti Saito, and officers from the FAB’s High Command. O … Dowiedz się więcej
Boeing [NYSE: BA] workers in Seattle took another step toward delivering next-generation aerial refueling capability to the U.S. Air Force today when they began assembling the second refueling boom for the KC-46A Tanker program. Based on the Boeing 767 commercial airplane, the KC-46A will feature a modernized fly-by-wire boom and hose and drogue systems, making … Dowiedz się więcej
Starrag from Rorschach SG produces milling machines valued 7 MCHF for Saab’s Gripen E. Some of the aluminum details you will find in Gripen E, the fighter of which the Swiss Government plans to purchase 22, will be produced on Starrag machines. “We share common values, see customers at the centre of our thinking and … Dowiedz się więcej