All United States articles – Page 110
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Boeing 787-10 technical description and cutaway
Boeing has closed the 15-year-long development phase of the 787 family of aircraft with the delivery of the third and – for at least another decade – final major variant of the Dreamliner to launch customer Singapore Airlines.
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News
US Navy plans to modify 45 more Super Hornets
The US Navy plans modify 45 more Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in the next two years to increase the aircraft’s service life and capabilities, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced on 27 March.
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NASA partners with Thales in push for drone airspace management
NASA has formally brought Thales on board in its effort to develop an unmanned air systems traffic management (UTM) system that can be handed over to the US Federal Aviation Administration in 2019. Under this Space Act Agreement, Thales will collaborate with NASA to research, develop, test and evaluate low-altitude ...
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China Eastern signs broad data analytics deal with GE
GE Aviation and China Eastern Airlines have signed a deal under which the US engine maker will provide China Eastern with digital analytics covering some 700 aircraft.
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Great Lakes Airlines ceases flights after pilot shortage warnings
Great Lakes Airlines, a turboprop operator with a network that connected cities in the western USA, suspended all scheduled flights on 26 March.
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US Navy completes fleet carrier qualifications for F-35C
The US Navy said it completed fleet carrier qualifications for the Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on the Atlantic Ocean 17 March to 21 March.
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Raytheon wins deal to develop software controls for UAV swarms
Raytheon BBN is developing technology to direct and control swarms of small, autonomous air and ground vehicles, as part of DARPA’s Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics, or OFFSET, programme, the company announced on 26 March.
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Lockheed's Skunk Works reveals missing link in secret UAV history
In 2001, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works secretly flew a flying wing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with a roughly 9m (30ft) wingspan with modular wings and a bulbous fuselage as a technology demonstrator for a family of aircraft.
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Congress appropriates a 28% increase in funding for new aircraft
President Donald Trump signed into law on 23 March a spending bill that adds 143 aircraft, worth $9.5 billion, to what was already requested by the Department of Defence, including 20 additional F-35 Lightning II fighters, 10 F/A-18 Super Hornets, and three KC-46A tanker aircraft.
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Boeing starts fuselage assembly for first 777-9
Major fuselage sections of the first 777X aircraft have entered Boeing’s Fuselage Assembly Centre in Everett, Washington, Boeing says.
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Boeing will not appeal US trade panel's Bombardier tariff vote
Boeing confirms it will not appeal a decision by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) that nullified steep tariffs on the importation into the USA of Bombardier CS100s.
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Opinion
OPINION: Boeing must heed 787 lessons for NMA success
Boeing's annual report for 2004 – the year the 787 programme was launched – reads like a time capsule of a very different company. That year the manufacturer reported a "strong" net cash flow, totalling $3.5 billion. Operating margins had "improved" significantly compared with 2003, rising to 3.8% of operating ...
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News
787 suffers nose gear failure at VIP conversion site
A Boeing 787 undergoing conversion into a VIP configuration recently suffered an apparent nose gear collapse at Grant County International airport in Moses Lake, Washington.
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Leap derivative likely in CFM's bid for NMA engine
A CFM International engine for Boeing’s New Mid-market Airplane (NMA) would be a growth version of the Leap series turbofan, suggesting a balance between a derivative and a clean-sheet design, says GE Aviation chief executive David Joyce.
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Elbit snaps up Universal Avionics
Israel's Elbit Systems is to acquire Tucson, Arizona-based Universal Avionics after receiving the necessary government approvals for the deal.
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GE completes tests on GEnx-2B upgrades for 747-8
GE Aviation plans to start delivering a durability upgrade in mid-2018 for the engines powering the Boeing 747-8, the engine maker confirms to FlightGlobal.
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DIUx looking for underwater-launched drone design proposals
The Department of Defence’s Silicon Valley-based accelerator, the Defence Innovation Unit Experimental, or DUIx, announced on its website that it is accepting design proposals for an unmanned aerial vehicle that can be launched from underwater.
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AAR hopes to open Indian MRO site near year-end
US aircraft maintenance provider AAR expects its planned MRO facility in Indian will open for business near the end of 2018 or at the beginning of 2019, says a top AAR official.
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USAF criticises Boeing on new KC-46 delay concerns
Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson heavily criticized Boeing for what she believes will be further delivery delays of KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tankers during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on 20 March.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: US Air Force pushes Global Hawk upgrades on 20th anniversary
If an aircraft's first flight is successful, the only excitement is on the ground and never in the air. So it was on 28 February 1998, with the first take-off of the Ryan Aeronautical Global Hawk – a futuristic-looking demonstrator described by three key adjectives: unmanned, jet-powered and high-altitude.