With nearly 100 hr. of flight testing under its belt, the Scorpion demonstrator will make a seven-stop trip to the U.K. in preparation for its international debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough, both outside London next month.
The Airbus A350XWB has made its Farnborough Air Show debut. It performed its validation flight for the air display on July 10. Join the crew in the cockpit!
LONDON — The U.K. defense ministry has confirmed it is building three landing pads capable of dealing with vertical landings by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
John Tabbron, a NATS air traffic controller at TAG Farnborough Airport talked to Aviation Week as validation was taking place ahead of the 2014 Farnborough International Airshow.
Captain Stratton Richey, a British Airways 747 pilot who has also been the 'voice' of the air display at the Farnborough air show for the past 40 years, talked to Aviation Week at the show.
Textron is hoping to send its Scorpion prototype light attack, reconnaissance aircraft to an international coming-out at the U.K.’s Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Air Show in July. RIAT is set for July 11-13. Farnborough is the following week.