June 08, 2010 Military Aviation News
06/08/2010
Airbus Military Aircraft, which now has two flight-test A400Ms in the air following the first flight of aircraft MSN02 on April 8, expects its third airlifter to join the test program by the beginning of the summer.
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06/08/2010
The first shot to be fired at Europe's 21st century army plane came not from the barrel of a gun but a safety inspector's clipboard. In 2008, weeks after the first A400M troop transporter rolled off a gleaming new assembly plant in Seville, a group of inspectors traveled to southern Germany to scrutinize an important component for the plane's huge turbo-prop engines.
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06/08/2010
Are airplane pilots destined for the same fate as flight navigators and engineers? Will they be replaced by lines of code, electrons and data-linked commands from faceless controllers beyond the horizon?
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06/08/2010
China's J-15 carrier-based fighter will not be able to compete with Russia's SU- 33 fighter on global markets because it is inferior to the Russian aircraft, said Russian military analyst.
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06/08/2010
India is sending its frontline Sukhoi fighter jets to France for a joint air exercise to be held in the European country next week.
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06/08/2010
Italy's defense and aerospace group, Finmeccanica SpA, said Monday it received an additional $319 million order for eight Joint Cargo Aircraft C-27Js for the U.S. Air Force.
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06/08/2010
Airbus’s first military transport aircraft, the A400M, is expected to make its debut public flight tomorrow, two years and up to £10billion behind schedule.
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06/08/2010
Ottawa is moving on a sole-sourced purchase of high-tech U.S. fighter jets to replace its CF-18s despite furious last-minute lobbying by rival manufacturers.
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06/08/2010
The most advanced aircraft in the history of the United States Navy made its inaugural flight yesterday, assuring a future of long-range, first-day-of-the-war stealth striking capability from the Navy's big-deck carriers.
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06/08/2010
Boeing announced today that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the U.S. Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program.
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