Affinity Flying Training Services has performed the first training sorties with its Grob G 120TP Prefect trainers on behalf of the UK’s Military Flying Training System (MFTS).
Automotive manufacturer Daimler has invested in German startup Volocopter, which is developing a multirotor electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Mice reared in a centrifuge aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth with far more bone mass and 10% bigger muscles than mice that were not exposed to artificial gravity, a study shows.
A definition study for a joint European medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system has decided that the aircraft will have a twin-turboprop configuration.
Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft, Cosmic Girl, is being readied for a series of ground and flight tests in the build-up towards captive-carry evaluations of the company’s LauncherOne small satellite launch vehicle.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $51.1m U.S. Navy contract for Trident II (D5) missile production and deployed system support. Work complete September 2017. SIKORSKY has $7.5m Defense Logistics Agency contract for H-60R Recovery Assist, Secure and Traverse (RAST) probe assemblies. Work complete November 2021.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a bill that would provide $16.7 billion for the FAA in fiscal 2018, including $1.1 billion for the NextGen air traffic modernization effort.
The aircraft performed four arrestments and four launches using heavily scrutinized General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) and Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (Emals).
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The nation’s planetary defense forces that are set to deal with a possible asteroid or comet impact plan to assess still-emerging global efforts to detect, characterize and potentially deflect a threat by observing the close approach of an actual asteroid.
As the U.S. Air Force prepares to solicit industry for development of an air-launched hypersonic conventional strike weapon, the service for the first time is outlining its approach to operationalizing high-speed capability for a wide range of roles.
Japan’s first privately developed launch vehicle, the Momo suborbital sounding rocket, was launched by Interstellar Technologies on July 30, but the flight was terminated shortly after liftoff.
GE Aviation’s new advanced turboprop for the Cessna Denali is crucial to growth plans that call for its business and general aviation powerplants to generate more than $1 billion a year by 2023.
The Pentagon expects to definitize the contract for the latest tranche of low-rate initial production F-35s by the end of the year, along with one for F135 engines made by Pratt & Whitney.
Sikorsky is to refurbish former U.S. Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters for firefighting and disaster relief in Australia in the first deal of its kind, the Lockheed Martin company says.
In the wake of Pyongyang's second successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) tested Thaad against an air-launched medium-range ballistic missile target.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $119.7m U.S. Navy contract for design, development, testing, reverse engineering, and other engineering support of Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems program. Work complete September 2018. LEONARDO has NORWEGIAN POLICE DIRECTORATE contract of undisclosed amount for three AW169 helicopters and 10-year maintenance package.
Raytheon chief executive Tom Kennedy said July 27 his company has no plans to pursue an initial public offering of stock for its Forcepoint cybersecurity joint venture. Raytheon paid $1.9 billion for a majority stake in the then-Websense business in 2015. Kennedy reminded financial analysts in the latest quarterly teleconference that Raytheon made the deal as a long-term play in cyber capabilities.
