Boeing’s next-generation T-X took off for the first time Dec. 20, making its milestone first flight just weeks before the U.S. Air Force expects to formally kick off the competition for a new trainer fleet.
Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries intends to complete the expansion of its recently introduced BlackSky global intelligence platform by the end of the decade.
A Japanese spacecraft designed to study the interaction of solar storms and Earth’s magnetic field is functioning as planned after launch early Tuesday on an Epsilon launch vehicle from the Uchinoura Space Center.
Avic has flown the AC352 helicopter, its variant of the Airbus H175, employing a Safran engine instead of the Pratt & Whitney Canada turboshaft of the original version.
The U.S. Air Force bought the legacy presidential aircraft from Boeing for just $249 million back in 1986 but expects to spend $3.2 billion on the new Air Force One.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $181m U.S. Navy contract for recurring logistics services for F-35 aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, non-DOD and FMS customers. MBDA tested its lightweight Enforcer missile during guided firings at German Bundeswehr’s Technical Center for Weapons and Ammunition 91 in November.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), an unabashed liberal made famous by her investigation of the Wells-Fargo banking scandal, will join the Senate Armed Services Committee in January. Large defense companies and research institutions call Warren’s state home, including Raytheon, General Electric, General Dynamics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.
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Momentum is building behind a propulsion upgrade of the 1960s-vintage, nuclear-armed Boeing B-52H Stratofortress, with Boeing proposing an eight-for-eight swap for engines designed to power regional jets in the 17,000-19,000 lb.-thrust range.
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. is set to provide $1 billion of a $1.2 billion capital fund for OneWeb Ltd. to use in developing technology and building a constellation of at least 720 low Earth orbit communications smallsats to extend Internet connectivity worldwide.
Bell-Boeing MV-22 Ospreys assigned to the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, Japan, have returned to flight less than a week after one of the aircraft clipped the refueling hose of an Air Force C-130 during a routine refueling and crashed.
The first of two Gulfstream G550 Conformal Airborne Early Warning aircraft have been delivered to Italy as part of a reciprocal bilateral deal that saw Israel purchase 30 M346 jet trainers.
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, U.S. Marine Corps aviator and Washington lawmaker, drew praise for his life’s accomplishments during a weekend memorial service at Ohio State University.
Bad weather appears to have been a factor in the fatal crash of an Indonesian Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules on Dec. 18, air force Chief of Staff Agus Supriatna says.
The Lithuanian armed forces, which have operated Saab’s RBS 70 very-short-range air defense system for more than a decade, are now buying simulators to improve training.
The structural failure that caused Facebook's Aquila UAV to crash during its first flight in June was “a result of exceeding the airspeed envelope due to wind gusts, which were beyond the capabilities of the autopilot,” the NTSB says.
