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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 19, 2022

VOL. 281 NO. 35 August 19, 2022
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Operations

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U.S. Marines, Navy Continue Flying V-22s Despite USAF Grounding

Aug 18, 2022
The U.S. Air Force is the only one of three services to ground the Bell Boeing V-22, with the Marine Corps and Navy saying they will keep the tiltrotor flying with precautions.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Programs

Alice
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Electric Alice Nearing First Flight At Moses Lake

Aug 17, 2022
AeroTEC’s flight-test center in Moses Lake, Washington, will host the first flight of Eviation's Alice.
CH-4
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China Tests Upgraded CH-4 UAS With New Heavy Fuel Engine

Aug 18, 2022
The new engine is designed to give the armed drone greater payload, range and operating altitude.
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U.S. Army Researching Drone To Carry Blood To Wounded Soldiers

Aug 16, 2022
As part of its Project Crimson research effort, the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center is looking for a drone to quickly deliver blood to wounded service members during times when medical evacuation is not possible.
Stealth
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KAL-ASD Tapped To Develop Stealth UAS Squadron For South Korea

Aug 16, 2022
The teaming system will consist of one crewed aircraft and three or four stealth uncrewed air systems.
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NASA Tailors Artemis I-III Lunar Mission Trajectories

Aug 15, 2022
NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I initial test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule will exercise the first of three flight trajectory strategies intended to kick off the return of human explorers to the lunar surface.

Technology

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Aurora To Help Develop eVTOL Design Tool Set

Aug 16, 2022
Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences has partnered with the University of California San Diego to develop tools to automate the design of electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles under a NASA University Leadership Initiative project.
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NASA Selects High-Performance Spaceflight Computing Processor

Aug 16, 2022
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected Microchip Technology to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor with “at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.”
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Archer Touts Capabilities Of Midnight Production eVTOL

Aug 15, 2022
Archer Aviation’s production electric air taxi, called the Midnight, is being designed to fly 45 back-to-back 20-mi. missions a day with a pilot and four passengers and a 10-min. recharge between flights, at prices comparable to ground ride-sharing, the startup has revealed.

Business

Overture
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American Airlines' Overture Order Boosts Boom Supersonic Backlog

Aug 16, 2022
American Airlines has placed a firm order for 20 Boom Supersonic Overture airliners.

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