December 21, 2011 Military Aviation News
12/21/2011
The fifth Airbus Military A400M military airlifter has made its first flight, marking the end of a highly successful year for the programme and meaning that the full fleet of Grizzly development aircraft is now in the air, completing the flight-test programme. Known as Grizzly 5, the aircraft took off from Seville, Spain with a take-off weight of 125 tonnes at 08:55 local time (GMT+1) and landed back at Seville 2 hours 10 minutes later.
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12/21/2011
As Iraq continues along the long road towards rebuilding its Air Force aircraft fleet, it continues to evaluate the available options like the Italian one represented by the M-346 of Aermacchi, the British BAE Hawk and the Korean KAI T-50 Golden Eagle. However, at the moment the Czech offer appears to have stolen a march as the nation’s interest has now switched to second-hand Aero L-159A: a single-seat light multi-role combat aircraft designed for a variety of air-to-air, air-to-ground and reco
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12/21/2011
The aerodrome, in West End Road, will host Typhoon jets before and during the Olympic Games next summer, and
has been designated as the main base for military aircraft in the capital, in a security operation that includes 13,500 troops across the various London 2012 venues. HMS Ocean, the largest warship in the Royal Navy, will be anchored in the Thames at Greenwich, from where Puma and Lynx helicopters will be on 24-hour standby to combat any terrorist attack.
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12/21/2011
The U.S. aerospace industry will post solid gains for 2011, but faces strong headwinds in 2012 and beyond with predictions of massive job losses if budget sequestration efforts go into effect, said the head of the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA).
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12/21/2011
As the world watched the last convoy pass through the gates at Khabari Crossing on the Kuwait-Iraq border, they may not have realized those on the ground had some help in the skies from airmen with a historic lineage. Col. Rodney Petithomme, 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group commander, and Lt. Col. Jason Plourde, commander of the 79th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron “Tigers," both part of the Tuskegee Airmen heritage, flew the last combat mission over Iraq, Dec. 18, 2011, piloting F-16s.
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12/21/2011
The battle to win a $1.5 billion contract to supply Australia with new combat transport aircraft has heated up. A US bid document has prompted a European competitor to suggest its offer could save as much as $300 million in the lifetime of the project. The tender for as many as 10 ''battlefield airlifter'' aircraft to replace the RAAF's DHC-4 Caribou, which were retired in 2009, has been under way since September.
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