To help Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) position itself to better compete for future jet trainer contracts in North America, the South Korean manufacturer has signed a teaming agreement with Lockheed Martin to market the T-50 worldwide.
Five U.S. Marines were killed June 8 when a Bell Boeing MV-22B crashed in California, the second fatal accident involving the tiltrotor within three months.
Canada’s first private-equity fund dedicated to the aerospace supply chain is targeting $100 million and already has garnered commitments for $77 million, officials said.
While the Future Combat Air System program is still stalled because of a disagreement between Airbus and Dassault Aviation, the French procurement agency and Dassault are hinting they have ideas for a Plan B.
The House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee will allow the U.S. Air Force to continue to chip away at its C-130 and legacy tanker fleets under its markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill.
Germany is planning to purchase utility helicopters and enlarge its Boeing P-8 Poseidon fleet with €100 billion ($107 billion) from its special defense modernization fund.
The Australian and Canadian governments say Chinese fighters have intercepted and harassed their maritime patrol aircraft, with one Chinese aircraft releasing chaff that was ingested into the engines of a Royal Australia Air Force P-8 Poseidon.
Sukhoi and MiG have formally merged with parent company United Aircraft Corp., with both legacy Soviet fighter manufacturers having ceased to exist as separate entities as of June 1. “Strong and worldwide-known Sukhoi and MiG brands will last in the assembled aircraft, while their reputable design schools will continue to evolve,” said Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec, UAC’s parent company.
A Canadian procurement official on June 2 restated the government’s commitment to finalizing a contract by year’s end to buy 88 F-35As, but an industry executive raised new doubts that the goal could be achieved.
A discussion of the blockbuster movie’s aviation-geek-pleasing details, from the recreation of Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 concept to why Maverick didn’t fly the F-35 and more.
The U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance fighter has begun engineering and manufacturing development based on progress from a previous DARPA program t
NASA has added more industry partners to its Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign, signing Space Act Agreements with vehicle developers Electra Aero, Overair and Supernal as well as urban transportation consultants Ellis & Associates.
