Fixed-wing – Page 650
-
News
PARIS AIR SHOW: Skunk Works nears flight for new breed of all-composite aircraft
An experimental aircraft is about to emerge from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works. Is it going to be the most significant since the early 1970s?
-
NewsRolls-Royce: F136 survival is key for major F-35 engine upgrade
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) could be the beneficiary around 2020 of a major engine upgrade if the F136 is not eliminated, a Rolls-Royce executive...
-
News
PICTURES & VIDEO: Organisers report 'roaring' ticket sales for RIAT 2009
Next month's Royal International Air Tattoo is enjoying a surge in ticket sales, bucking the economic downturn ...
-
News
A30X wing work a must-win, says Society of British Aerospace Companies
Airbus could look outside the UK when it is time to manufacture wings for the next generation of narrowbody aircraft unless the country makes further investment...
-
News
China second-largest defence spender in 2008
China's efforts to modernise its armed forces has seen it become the second biggest military spender behind the United States, according to the Stockholm...
-
News
Japan makes another push for F-22
Japan is making a final push to buy the Lockheed Martin F-22 from the USA, and its defence minister has confirmed that Tokyo will consider alternatives including...
-
News
UK gives $2.5 million for less-wire aircraft
Prototype wireless data systems could be tested in 2011 as part of the UK Wireless Technologies for Novel Enhancement of Systems and Structures Serviceability (Witnesss) initiative.
-
News
PARIS AIR SHOW: Rafale's fighting chance
The Dassault-led Rafale industry team will arrive at Paris on a high, with the type recently back from Afghanistan and also on the shortlist in three major competitions
-
News
PARIS: Epic F-35 production ramp-up to draw upon Toyota, Airbus for lessons
Can Lockheed learn lessons from commercial airframers Airbus and Boeing as it strives to keep production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on schedule?
-
News
A400M - Rescue mission
Airbus has pulled out the stops in a bid to save Europe's troubled airlifter programme from possible cancellation. Le Bourget will show whether its strategy has worked
-
News
PARIS AIR SHOW: France's Caracal proves its worth in Afghan battles
Praise is being heaped on the Eurocopter EC725 after the helicopter's impressive debut in theatre in Afghanistan
-
News
Rockwell Collins launches Core full flight simulator system
Rockwell Collins today launched the Core simulation architecture with a modular design to customize training between military and civil customers.
-
NewsPICTURES: Crashed A330's vertical fin among recovered wreckage
Recovery personnel have located the vertical fin of the Air France Airbus A330 which crashed in the South Atlantic on 1 June. The Brazilian defence...
-
News
A century of shows
The Paris air show is 100 years old this year. Will the global downturn mar the celebrations?
-
News
Cobham continues US push
Acquisitions and organic growth make North America the UK supplier's top market...
-
News
ACCA first flight breaks new ground
Lockheed Martin will work through November to expand the flight envelope of an experimental aircraft testing new composite materials that could revolutionise...
-
NewsRAF Nimrods ready for operational return
The UK Royal Air Force's Nimrod MR2 surveillance aircraft could soon return to duty over Afghanistan, says the boss of the Kinloss-based fleet ...
-
News
PARIS AIR SHOW: Gripping Gripen
Now used by the air forces of the Czech Republic, Hungary, South Africa and Sweden, ordered by Thailand and also flown in support of the UK's Empire Test Pilots' School, Saab's Gripen is a credible force in the fighter arena
-
News
Brazil bids to reduce confusion over A330 search progress
Brazilian authorities are aiming to reduce confusion over progress in the search for the Air France Airbus A330 by relaying information on debris only once...
-
News
French nuclear submarine to assist A330 search
France's defence ministry has deployed a nuclear submarine to aid the hunt for the Airbus A330 which disappeared over the South Atlantic on 1 June.