The delivery begins a series of government testing on the supersonic strategic bomber, which is now powered by Kuznetsov NK-30-2 turbofan engines, Rostec said. 

The Netherlands is temporarily taking over Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) air-policing duties for Belgium following the grounding of that country’s F-16 fighter fleet. 

Startup Jump Aero is to study the use of an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle to calibrate navigation aids, as an alternative to a costly fixed-wing platform.

The ELM program chose the V-22’s brownout problem as an early test case for the complex, multicellular organisms that can “grow on-site, self-repair and respond predictably to their environment."

Belgium is halting operations with its F-16 fleet to undertake urgent modifications to its engines.

The unnamed suitors are proposing to purchase the two companies—Piaggio Aviation and Piaggio Aero Industries—which form Villanova d’Albenga-based Piaggio Aerospace.

In response to higher power requirements for the emerging autonomous air cargo and urban air mobility markets, Honeywell is developing a 1-megawatt turbogenerator based on the company’s HGT1700 auxiliary power unit.

An Aermacchi MB-326 Impala jet trainer crashed about 10 mi. northwest of Edwards AFB, California, around 10:10 a.m. on March 5, the National Test…