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FARNBOROUGH: Parker acquires fuel vapour scrubbing system
Parker Aerospace has acquired rights to technology developed by Phyre Technologies that uses a catalytic process to make aircraft fuel tank vapours inert.
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FARNBOROUGH: USAF considers expanded role for T-X
The US Air Force is considering expanding the scope of its T-X trainer requirement to include the role of an aggressor aircraft or potentially as a replacement for its Fairchild Dornier A-10 Warthogs.
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: USN carries out MQ-25 aerial refuelling surrogate testing
Surrogate tests are under way by the US Navy’s precision strike weapons programme office to prepare the service’s aerial refuelling pod for integration on its future MQ-25 carrier-based aerial refuelling (CBARS) unmanned air vehicle.
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: USAF reopens door for GE to compete for future F-35 engine
The US Air Force has contractually re-opened the door for GE Aviation to challenge Pratt & Whitney for a potential propulsion upgrade for the Lockheed Martin F-35.
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FARNBOROUGH: Textron targets Fury munition deliveries
Textron Systems could deliver the Fury precision-guided munition before end of this year.
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FARNBOROUGH: Bell gives international debut to V-280 mock-up
Tucked away in Bell Helicopter’s chalet is a mock-up of its V-280 next-generation tiltrotor, which the manufacturer is pinning its hopes on as the future of vertical lift.
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FARNBOROUGH: Triumph gets back in shape
Size doesn’t always equate with wise in aerospace. Just ask the owners of Triumph Group, who have seen the company double in size in the past six years, but also the value of their shares more than half from a 2013 peak of over $80, as the conglomerate has struggled ...
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing tests hardware fix for KC-46A boom
Boeing has foregone a software fix for its troubled KC-46A tanker, in favour of a hardware solution, the company’s vice-president of defense, space and security, Leanne Caret, revealed on the eve of the Farnborough air show.
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: Raytheon Coyote to enter next stage of swarming tests
Raytheon is planning ship-based swarm testing of its Coyote unmanned air vehicle in the coming weeks, under a research programme funded by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR).
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NewsFARNBOROUGH: USAF contracts Raytheon to develop navy-specific decoy
Raytheon has been awarded $34.8 million by the US Air Force to develop a new version of its miniature air-launched decoy-jammer missile, the MALD-X.
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FARNBOROUGH: P&W discusses adaptive cycle upgrade for F-35
Pratt & Whitney is working with Lockheed Martin on a long-term upgrade for the engine powering the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that could substantially alter the configuration of the F135 powerplant, P&W military engines president Bennett Croswell says.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing awaits a number of UK military announcements
The UK is in the process of modernising a number of aerial capabilities, most significantly a follow on to its Boeing/Westland AH1 Apache attack rotorcraft, plus the acquisition of a new maritime patrol aircraft to fill the gap left by the retirement of the British Aerospace Nimrod MR2 in 2011.
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FARNBOROUGH: South Carolina factory evolving into familiar Boeing facility
A hunk of yellow scaffolding labeled “scrap” in spray paint sat abandoned outside the 787 aft-body assembly building, no doubt waiting for a few of Boeing’s 8,000 workers in North Charleston, South Carolina to haul it away.
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NewsUSAF sets aggressive IOC schedule for F-35A
The head of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command is hopeful that the service will declare initial operational capability (IOC) for its Lockheed Martin F-35A as early as August, following a successful first off-station deployment of the type.
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NewsPlans under way for October F-35B sea-based test
Lockheed Martin's F-35B is due to embark on a third phase of ship-based developmental testing (DT) in October, the final step before it begins qualification trials on the UK’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier.
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GA ASI starts assembling first new Predator B variant
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA ASI) has started assembling the fuselage and systems of a new variant of the Predator B unmanned air system (UAS) that is designed to meet existing airworthiness requirements.
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First Bell 525 test aircraft crashes, killing crew
Bell Helicopter has confirmed the first test aircraft in the 525 Relentless programme crashed in central Texas on 6 July, killing two company test pilots and setting back a year-long effort to certificate the first application of fly-by-wire technology in a commercial helicopter.
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing bids to redeem in-service record with 787-9
Redemption is not a word often associated with the introduction of new aircraft models, but the entry into service of the 787-9 nearly two years ago was anything but a typical event.
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FARNBOROUGH: Lord looks to future with French fly-by-wire acquisition
It has been a year of mixed fortunes in aerospace for Lord. Like most suppliers to commercial airliner manufacturers, the US corporation headed into Farnborough with the “nice problem” of having to ramp up fast to deliver on a large backlog of contracts for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. It has ...
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FARNBOROUGH: 787 - Rolls-Royce bang on the money with Trent plans
Boeing first flew the 787-8 in December 2009, but the first run of the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine came almost four years before in February 2006. Now more than a decade old, the engine competition between R-R and the GE Aviation GEnx-1B is as intense as ever, with still unpredictable ...