The General Electric Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team was due to make the first run of the F136 development engine for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as Flight International closed for press. The engine is scheduled for up to 200h of performance and operability testing in 2004, before running up to 300h of endurance tests in early 2005. An engine in short take-off and vertical landing configuration is to join the test effort in 2005.
Source: Flight International
Turkish Airlines has struck a compensation agreement covering engine availability issues impacting the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofans powering its Airbus A320neo-family aircraft.
MBDA is to assemble Brimstone air-to-surface missiles in Germany for the first time, following its receipt of a contract to equip the Luftwaffe’s Eurofighter combat aircraft.
French investigators have disclosed that a De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter crew resorted to aerodynamic manoeuvring and ground effect to land the aircraft after its engines failed to respond to power commands during approach. The aircraft – operated by New Caledonian carrier Aircalin – had been carrying out a visual ...
