MOSCOW, May 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia plans to send the initial batch of the Yakovlev Yak-130 jet trainers to Syria until the end of 2014, with further plans to fully complete the contract for 36 aircraft in 2016, the Kommersant newspaper wrote Monday, citing a source close to Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport. Damascus will […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ] ...
(Reuters) – Government officials from Australia, China and Malaysia pledged on Monday not to give up searching for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared almost two months ago, despite lingering questions about how to proceed and who will pay. No trace of Flight MH370 has been found since it vanished on a scheduled service from […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ] ...
(Reuters) – Latin American’s largest carrier, LATAM Airlines Group, said on Monday it plans to invest $12.2 billion through 2020 on 166 new planes. LATAM, which was created via a tie-up of Chile’s LAN and Brazil’s TAM in 2012, will add Boeing 787s and Airbus A320s and A350s, among others, to its fleet. SOURCE REUTERS, […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ] ...
New Satellite Will Advance Weather Forecasts on Earth and in Space DENVER, May 1, 2014 – The two large modules of the first GOES-R series weather satellite spacecraft were delivered to a cleanroom at Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] Space Systems facility near Denver. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOES-R) is NOAA’s next-generation geostationary weather […] [ THIS...
LONDON — May 02, 2014 — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has designed, developed, integrated and fielded a Mode S upgrade to the Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) interrogator for the Sentry E-3D Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet based at Royal Air Force Waddington. The IFF interrogator is a sophisticated airborne defence system […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY,...
SEATTLE, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Lufthansa celebrated the delivery of the German airline’s 75th 747 on Wednesday. “Lufthansa is proud to share this milestone with Boeing,” said Nico Buchholz, executive vice president, Lufthansa Group Fleet Management. “The 747 is an amazing airplane and will continue to delight our passengers […] [...
Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft bolsters self-defense capabilitie KONYA, Turkey, May 2, 2014 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] this week delivered, on schedule, the second Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft to the Turkish Armed Forces, further improving the country’s self-defense capabilities. The AEW&C aircraft arrived at Konya Air Base, the fleet’s...
(Reuters) – A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge issued an injunction late Wednesday prohibiting a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing from proceeding with plans to buy Russian-made rocket engines used to send U.S. Air Force satellites into space. Space Exploration Technologies, the privately held company known as SpaceX, won the temporary […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ...
Aviation history will be made in the UK this summer when, in a major airshow ‘first’, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the Joint Strike Fighter, makes its much-anticipated European debut. This hugely important multi-role combat aircraft, which has never before been seen outside of the US, will display at the Royal International Air Tattoo […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ]...
(AFP) A potentially damaging French pilots’ strike has been called off at the last minute, the union organising the work stoppage said Friday, just days after Air France warned it risked hampering the airline’s painstaking recovery. The strike from May 3 to 30, which was called by the country’s main SNPL pilots’ union, would have […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE...
We have agreed with the UK Ministry of Defence a £125 million extension to the support contract provided by us for the RAF’s Tornado GR4 fleet until the aircraft are due to be retired in 2019. With the changes to the contract, an estimated £90 million saving to the UK Ministry of Defence has been […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ] ...
MOSCOW, May 1, (RIA Novosti) – A newly formed Russian army helicopter brigade has begun training flights in the northwest of the country near the borders with the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia, a spokesman for the Western Military District said Wednesday. “Helicopters of the army aviation brigade of the Western Military District, […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ] ...
Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec, has delivered its civilian multirole Ka-32A11BC helicopter to the Shanghai Public Security Directorate in China. The helicopter is produced at Kumertau Aviation Production Enterprise and the contract for this helicopter was concluded in 2012. The Ka-32A11BC is certified in China and boasts a wide array of potential uses...
North Bay, Ontario, Canada – Sikorsky Aircraft participated in a transfer ceremony of an S-76A™ helicopter maintenance trainer to Canadore College earlier today for use as a hands-on training aid for students in the School of Aviation Technology. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX). “Sikorsky is delighted that this aircraft’s […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY,...
MESA, Ariz., May 1, 2014 — Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] AH-6i light attack/reconnaissance helicopter has flown for the first time in its production configuration, moving the program another step closer to full-scale production while continuing to prove the helicopter’s close air support and attack capabilities. Boeing pilots flew the aircraft for less than 20-minutes at […] [...
SHANGHAI, May 1 (Xinhua) — A regional airliner built by Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) returned to Xi’an on Monday after completing test flights in natural icing conditions in Canada. It was the first time for the airliner, a twin-engined ARJ21-700, to carry out test flights abroad under special meteorological conditions, sources […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY,...
Effective from May 9th, AirBridgeCargo Airlines, the largest Russian scheduled cargo airline and part of Volga Dnepr Group, is expanding its services in Central Europe by introducing direct services to and from Munich with a Boeing 747 freighter. The new Munich flight to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport will be in addition to the four existing weekly […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE...
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has been named ‘Cargo Airline of the Year’ in the prestigious annual awards organised by Air Cargo News, based on votes from its 54,000 readers globally. John Lloyd, Director of Cargo at Virgin Atlantic, was presented with the award by Mark Whitehead, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE SITE ] ...
With more than 670 of its rotorcraft operating across the African continent, Airbus Helicopters’ presence at next week’s ShieldAfrica exhibition will spotlight the role of its product line in serving this evolving market’s varied missions. “The designed-in versatility of our aircraft is demonstrated daily in Africa, where they are deployed on demanding missions in some […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY,...
KazEOSat-1 (formerly known as DZZ-HR), the Republic of Kazakhstan’s first Earth observation satellite, was successfully launched last night on board a Vega launcher from the European Spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana). It is in a low Sun-synchronous orbit (about 700 km from Earth), from which it will operate, and has sent the first operational signal. […] [ THIS IS A SUMMARY, READ MORE ON THE...