LOCKHEED MARTIN and NASA plan January 12 to roll out X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft at Palmdale, CA; NASA's Quesst team plans to select several U.S. communities to fly the aircraft and gather data on how people perceive the sound it produces and use data to adjust the current rules that prohibit commercial supersonic flight over land.
The agency has a third contract with Axiom Space under a $140 million agreement reached in February 2020 to assemble an initial commercial ISS successor.
Denmark will explore whether its planned 27-strong fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters should be expanded as it seeks to bolster defense.
Patrick Dirksen and Frank Mink of Tristar Aviation visit the South Asian island of Sri Lanka and report on the developments at Sri Lanka’s Air Force (SLAF).
Crane has acquired Vian Enterprises, a supplier of aerospace oil lubrication systems including pumps, valves, fluid regulators and gerotors, for $103 million.
Atlanta-based high-speed system developer Hermeus has completed ground tests of its first fully integrated Quarterhorse “dynamic iron bird” evaluation vehicle.
The Indonesian defense and finance ministries have decided to delay the acquisition of 12 Qatari Dassault Mirage 2000-5s due to “limited fiscal capacity.”
Performance benefits of Unity upgrades that were proved last year will feed into Delta spaceship design as belt-tightening forces cuts in near-term flight rate.
