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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, June 5, 2019

VOL. 268 NO. 47 June 05, 2019
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Business

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Wildcat Offered For Revived S. Korea Requirement

Jun 04, 2019
Leonardo is again offering its AW159 Wildcat for a repeatedly stalled and relaunched South Korean requirement for 12 anti-submarine helicopters.
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Virgin Horizontal Launch Proposed For Cornwall

Jun 04, 2019
Virgin Orbit could begin conducting horizontal space launch services from mainland UK in the early 2020s with the support of start-up funding from the UK Space Agency and local authorities in Cornwall.
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EVTOL Market Seen As Billion-dollar Rival To Legacy Aero

Jun 04, 2019
The marketplace for urban air mobility for the masses is not expected to take off for several more years, but it could become a multibillion-dollar enterprise, new consultant studies suggest.

SpeedNews

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Jun 05, 2019
GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS INC. is expanding industrial ties in Canada with formation of TEAM SKYGUARDIAN CANADA coalition supporting MQ-9B SkyGuardian UAV.

In Brief

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IAI Reports Flat Profits Despite Growing Sales

Jun 05, 2019
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will try to accelerate its restructuring program to achieve greater profit in preparation for possible partial privatization, according to company sources.

Funding & Policy

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House Panel Wants F-35 Spares Shortage Solution

Jun 04, 2019
House authorizers propose fencing 25% of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment’s budget until the Pentagon presents a plan to rectify problems in the F-35 supply chain.

Programs

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U.S. OKs Possible F-16 Block 70 Sale To Bulgaria

Jun 04, 2019
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of the Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 to Bulgaria.
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Honeywell Unveils Flight Computer For UAM Vehicles

Jun 04, 2019
Honeywell on June 3 unveiled a compact flight-control computer designed to drive electric actuators and dynamically adjust flight surfaces and motors of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.
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The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 Nears Launch

May 24, 2019
The Planetary Society’s experimental LightSail 2 (LS 2) small satellite is ready for a high-altitude orbital test of a sunlight-propulsion technology for CubeSats.
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Rockwell Veteran George W. Jeffs Dies

Jun 03, 2019
Retired longtime Rockwell executive George W. Jeffs, who was among the chief corporate architects of the U.S. space program throughout the Apollo and into the shuttle era, has died. He was 94.