July 22, 2011 Military Aviation News
07/22/2011
Boeing on Wednesday, July 20, conducted an industry forum in São José dos Campos to share with local businesses and universities the broad spectrum of opportunities available to them as part of Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet offering in the F-X2 fighter aircraft competition.
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07/22/2011
The US Air Force's top civilian leader has called for a quick-look study on safety concerns about oxygen generation systems across the combat aircraft fleet. Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley directed the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board to conduct the study more than two months into a fleet-wide stand-down for the Lockheed Martin F-22 over related concerns.
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07/22/2011
The Yankee Air Museum's 2011 "Thunder Over Michigan" Air Show is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, July 23-24 and is proud to welcome back the world's most famous military demonstration team, the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels to Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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07/22/2011
Nato aircraft have flown 5 900 sorties over Libya and engaged more than 3 000 targets since combat operations began, the alliance has announced, with French and British helicopters destroying more than 300 targets since June 4. “Nato has controlled the Libyan air space around the clock, every day since the implementation of the No-Fly Zone, using Nato's sophisticated airborne warning and control system,” said Colonel Roland Lavoie, Nato spokesperson for Operation Unified Protector.
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07/22/2011
A distracted pilot and a blinding swirl of dust kicked up by rotors were to blame for a helicopter crash in Afghanistan two years ago that killed two Canadians and a Briton. A military board of inquiry filed its final report on the crash on Wednesday.
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07/22/2011
Boeing and the U.S. Navy recognized the 40th anniversary of the Harpoon Missile System today at a ceremony near the company’s St. Charles facility.
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07/22/2011
The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Infrared Search and Track (IRST) program received a Milestone B Acquisition Decision Memorandum from the U.S. Navy on July 13. This allows the program to advance to its next development phase - Engineering and Manufacturing Development.
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07/22/2011
A court martial in northern Russia’s Arkhangelsk has given a two-year suspended jail sentence to an Air Force officer who supervised flight operations prior to the crash of a MiG-31 interceptor in March, military investigators said on Thursday. The officer, Roman Storozhenko, was found guilty of accepting the base at Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Region as being fit to allow flight operations in March 2010, and authorizing missions for MiG-31s.
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