INTERNATIONAL AVIATION NEWS

Boeing Delivers UK Royal Air Force’s 8th C-17 Globemaster III

Rob Vogelaar — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:31:50 +0000

Delivery of additional airlifter comes 2 months after contract signing RAF C-17 fleet has surpassed 74,000 flight hours LONG BEACH, Calif., May 18, 2012 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] delivered the United Kingdom’s eighth C-17 Globemaster III to the Royal Air Force (RAF) today during a ceremony at the company’s final assembly facility in Long Beach. [...]

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Boeing Announces Final Leg of 787 Dream Tour

Rob Vogelaar — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:27:43 +0000

EVERETT, Wash., May 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The Boeing (NYSE: BA) 787 Dream Tour will draw to a close with a seventh leg of international trips. During the tour, a refurbished flight test airplane has demonstrated the Dreamliner’s capabilities to more than 59,000 guests with an estimated 6,000 more to see it during the upcoming [...]

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Opening date of Berlin Brandenburg Airport will be postponed to 17 March 2013

Rob Vogelaar — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:55:42 +0000

At its meeting Wednesday, the Supervisory Board of Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH discussed the reasons for postponing the opening date as well as the next steps to be taken to complete Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt. The Board reached the following decisions: The opening date of the airport will be postponed to 17 March [...]

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British Navy Search and Rescue squadron to begin Olympic Flame UK relay

Rob Vogelaar — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:40:42 +0000

The Olympic Flame is due to arrive at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose tonight from where it will be carried in a Sea King helicopter to the start of the UK Torch Relay. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) recently announced that a Royal Navy Search and Rescue squadron [...]

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Bell Helicopter Honors H1 “Yankees and Zulus” in the Second of the “Heroes of Aviation” Series

Rob Vogelaar — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:26:59 +0000

Fort Worth, TX – May 18, 2012 - Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced the second of the Bell Helicopter “Heroes of Aviation” Series which pays tribute to the men and women who preserve freedom and save lives while using Bell Helicopters. “On behalf of the 11,000 men and women of Bell [...]

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New Crew Docks at Space Station

Rob Vogelaar — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:22:51 +0000

A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early on Thursday, beginning a four-month mission aboard the orbiting complex. A Russian Soyuz TMA-04M capsule carrying NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin docked with the ISS at 4:36 a.m. GMT as the two spacecraft sailed [...]

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NASA/Spacex Launch and Mission to Station

Rob Vogelaar — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:15:58 +0000

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The second SpaceX demonstration launch for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) is scheduled for liftoff on Saturday, May 19. The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule will occur from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. There is a single instantaneous [...]

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Bombardier Delivers First Q400 NextGen Aircraft to Polish Carrier Eurolot

Rob Vogelaar — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:06:55 +0000

Bombardier Aerospace has delivered the first of eight Q400 NextGen turboprop airliners ordered by new customer Eurolot S.A. of Warsaw, Poland. The Polish carrier also holds options on an additional 12 of the aircraft. Eurolot was represented at the handover ceremony by Bartlomiej Matusewicz, Vice President, Operations & Technical. Several Bombardier employees were also in [...]

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USAF B-1 aircrews make history by employing laser JDAMS

Rob Vogelaar — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:02:55 +0000

ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AFNS) — B-1 Lancer aircrews from here employed laser Joint Direct Attack Munitions against moving targets during a weapon system evaluation program exercise May 14 through 16. Aircrews from the 37th Bomb Squadron and 34th BS employed six GBU-54 laser JDAMs against targets on the Utah Test and Training Range [...]

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PZL Mielec, a Sikorsky Company, Contracted to Build Eclipse 550 Airframe and Wings

Marcel van Leeuwen — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:55:04 +0000

PZL Mielec announced today it has signed an agreement to produce airframe components for Eclipse Aerospace, Inc., contingent upon the launch of Eclipse 550 jet production. Major components include the fuselage, empennage and wings for the Eclipse 550 jet. PZL Mielec would manufacture these components in Poland and ship them to Eclipse’s facilities in Albuquerque, [...]

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Lockheed Martin’s Aegis Combat System Showcases Integrated Air and Missile Defense Capabilities

Marcel van Leeuwen — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:36:39 +0000

Lockheed Martin’s Aegis Combat System recently demonstrated simultaneous anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense capabilities during its first integrated air and missile defense test. The successful test verified the capabilities of the most recent upgrade to the Aegis system, known as Baseline 9, which will provide integrated air and missile defense for the U.S. Navy’s [...]

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Rollin’ Out

Marcel van Leeuwen — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:33:19 +0000

A future C-5M rolled out of the hangar at the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] facilities here, May 10. Tail number 87-0045 received new engine pylons and wiring, and will now be fitted with new, state-of-the-art GE F138-GE-100 turbofan engines and undergo flight checks before being delivered to Dover Air Force Base, Del., later this year. [...]

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