For Aviation Week’s Sept. 6, 1999 issue, Rocky Mountain bureau chief William B. Scott flew a 3.3-hr F-22 safety chase mission with F-22 test pilot Lt. Col. David M. “Doc” Nelson on the stick.
First Cessna Corsiar powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-112 turboprop engines flies near Wichita, Kansas, during a test flight. The Corsair is expected to join the Conquest in service in mid-1980.
At first sight, it seems an odd decision: Why introduce a single example of a different aircraft type into your fleet, with all the potential complexities that could arise?
L3Harris, the Trusted Disruptor in advanced hypersonic propulsion with 40 years of experience, stands ready to power operational hypersonic systems now.
On the cover of the Sep. 15, 2014 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is a Gulfstream 550. It is performing a flight for Northrop Grumman to test various radars and battle management technologies that the company plans for its bid to replace a Joint Stars aircraft. The U.S. Air Force hopes to debut a business jet replacement for the Boeing 707-300-based Joint Stars in 2022.
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Air Cairo is planning steady expansion over the rest of the decade, but it appears its small sub-fleet of Embraer 190s will be consigned to a modest role In the process.
To keep pace with robust increases in defense spending globally and the boom in commercial space activity, Aviation Week Network is launching exciting new changes to our coverage of these critical topics.
The Middle East's premier business aviation event, the MEBAA Show 2024, is gearing up to host a constellation of global industry leaders from December 10-12.
Flight Friday looks at indexed cycles against the equivalent month in 2019 of passenger narrowbodies and how they have recovered to beyond pre-pandemic levels.
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Thirty-five years ago, Aviation Week chronicled the first flight of the ES-3A Shadow, the culmination of a $500 million modernization program to convert 16 S-3A anti-submarine warfare aircraft into electronic intelligence platforms. The U.S. Navy/Lockheed ES-3A prototype began its flight test program from Palmdale, California.
