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By Tony Osborne
The pilot of a Pilatus PC-12 who made an illegal landing at a military airfield in Wales last year to visit a nearby beach has been fined £3,400 ($4,650) following court hearings.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky and Boeing have taken the wraps off their Defiant X offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft requirement, and the design differs only in detail externally from the SB-1 Defiant technology demonstrator now in flight test.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The Transporter-1 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10 a.m. on Jan. 24 following a one-day delay due to weather.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The selection by MDA eliminates Leidos and Raytheon from the competition to demonstrate the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS).
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon made budgetary gains under former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, and now President Joe Biden’s newly installed defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, must lead the military through an anticipated era of flat funding.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
NASA plans the first in a series of spacewalks next week to equip the European Space Agency’s new Bartolomeo science platform outside the International Space Station (ISS) with communications systems, and then prepare for future upgrades to the orbiting lab’s solar power system.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The UK’s first test site for sustainable aviation, including electric and hydrogen propulsion, is to be established at Kirkwall Airport in Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Customers of TransDigm Group expect to pay roughly 2% higher prices this year from the key aerospace and defense parts provider, compared with an average of just 0.8% more across the whole aerospace supplier base, according to new survey results from Jefferies analysts.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
A digital blueprint for a medical delivery drone network that could connect hospitals, laboratories and surgeries across Scotland is to be developed under an 18-month project begun in December.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The Finnish government is to issue a final request for proposals for its HX next-generation fighter contest by the end of January.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Single European Sky ATM Research, the organization coordinating European air traffic management research, has launched a project to develop and test a concept of operations for urban air transport of passengers and cargo.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Volocopter plans concurrent certification and validation of its VoloCity electric air taxi in Europe and the U.S., enabling it to enter both markets simultaneously.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopter is proposing its H175 twin-engine super-medium rotorcraft as a potential replacement for the UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF) aging fleet of Airbus Puma medium-lift platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has adapted an H130 light helicopter as a flying laboratory to test technology for urban air mobility, hybrid-electric flight and new flight safety systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
All four teams competing to win the High Accuracy Detection Exploitation System were evaluated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters officials say they have secured backing from the French, Germany and Spanish governments to bid for funding from the European Defense Fund for initial studies for a future European military rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The European Commission is to order the first 12 satellites for the second generation of the Galileo navigation constellation from Airbus and Thales Alenia Space.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Private equity-backed space rollup Redwire has acquired spacecraft design and engineering specialist Oakman Aerospace of Littleton, Colorado.
Commercial Space

By Lee Hudson
On the heels of receiving fiscal 2021 funding, the U.S. Air Force has moved to purchase 15 KC-46 aircraft from Boeing for $2.1 billion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
An investigation report released by Air Combat Command nearly a year after the crash that killed both crewmembers definitively concludes that pilot and co-pilot responded to an explosion that shut down the left engine by incorrectly shutting down the right engine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The House voted 326-78 and the Senate 69-27 on Jan. 21 to approve a waiver allowing U.S. Army Gen. (ret.) Lloyd Austin to serve as U.S. defense secretary.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Jack London, the longtime face of and driving force behind government services contractor CACI International, has died at age 83, the company announced late Jan. 20.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army plans to roll out a series of PRSM upgrades in the years ahead. But the baseline missile program calls for delivering a new weapon with a range up to 499 km.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
MBDA has conducted demonstration firings of its MMP anti-tank missile guided to a target beyond visual line-of sight with help from a multi-copter drone.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
On the job less than a day, the Biden administration made its first two appointments at NASA.
Space