All United States articles – Page 84
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Safety regulators face balancing act to manage new technology
National aviation authorities (NAAs) today risk being swamped by the rate of technological advance, according to their leaders. At the same time many risk being starved of resources because aviation safety appears to have improved so much that governments are wondering if oversight could be done more cheaply.
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News
General Atomics demos Wii-like deck-handling system for MQ-25
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demonstrated aircraft carrier deck-handling controls for its MQ-25 tanker bid using a pair of motion-sensing director wands and an Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle as a stand-in for its yet-to-be-built prototype.
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News
JASSM-ER makes combat debut against Syrian chemical weapons facilities
US, French and British aircraft fired several cruise missiles at chemical weapons research and production facilities in Syria on 13 April, with the action including the combat debut of the Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended-Range (JASSM-ER).
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Opinion
OPINION: A330neo faces uphill battle in USA
American Airlines’ decision to opt for the Boeing 787 and ditch a stagnant order for Airbus A350s is something of an equaliser in terms of the three US majors’ recent long-haul fleet decisions.
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News
Marine Corps experimenting with sharing F-35’s data with soldiers
The US Marine Corps is experimenting with several ways to provide soldiers on the ground a link to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information gathered by the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and other unmanned aircraft on a tablet computer.
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News
AeroVironment demonstrates drone guiding missile attack
AeroVironment demonstrated the ability to use an unmanned aerial vehicle’s camera and sensors to automatically guide a missile drone into a fast-moving unmanned boat.
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News
American still eying NMA despite recent 787 order
An order for Boeing’s proposed New Mid-market airplane (NMA) remains an option for American Airlines despite the carrier’s recent purchase of 47 787s, says a top American executive.
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News
F-35's 11-year flight test phase comes to an end
A Lockheed Martin F-35C on 11 April completed the final test flight of the programme’s system development and demonstration (SDD) phase, capping off an 11-year-long saga spanning 9,200 sorties and 17,000 flight hours for three major variants.
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News
Pentagon refuses delivery of F-35s over repair dispute
The US Department of Defence is refusing delivery of F-35 Lightning IIs over a dispute with manufacturer Lockheed Martin about who should pay for repair costs to fix a production error on the aircraft.
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News
Vice Adm Winter downplays reorganisation of F-35 programme
Vice Admiral Mat Winter downplayed the reorganization of his office, the F-35 Lightning Joint Programme Office, in remarks at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland on 11 April.
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News
PICTURES: UPS 757 and 767 cockpit updates near certification
UPS has started flight testing its first Boeing 757-200 Freighters with new cockpit systems, putting UPS on a path to receive airworthiness certification next month.
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News
AIX: Sekisui launches KYDEX light brigade
Interior designers looking to lighten up a bit will be looking carefully at a literally bright new idea in cabin panel materials. KYDEX plastic panels – in any colour, printable with infused images for durability and thermoformable to most any shape – are a familiar tool for the design community, ...
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News
Boeing's 100th P-8 enters final assembly
The hundredth Boeing P-8 entered final assembly in Renton, Washington in March.
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News
JPO to hand F-35 management to services
The Department of Defence plans to eventually divide management of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II programme between two offices: one managed by the US Navy and Marine Corps, and another led by the US Air Force. The Joint Programme Office, which currently handles the fighter programme, will ultimately be ...
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News
AAS-equipped P-8A could replace E-8C
The US Navy's P-8A Poseidon could pick up a new mission if the US Air Force is allowed to follow through on plans to cancel a replacement for the Northrop Grumman E-8C JSTARS.
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News
Lockheed's MQ-25 reuses USN fighter engines, landing gear
New details of Lockheed Martin’s bid for the MQ-25 Stingray contract reveal a flying wing unmanned tanker with several key components re-used from aircraft already on board the US Navy’s aircraft carriers.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Taking command of an aircraft carrier
Capt Douglas Verissimo, is commanding officer for aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson
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News
MRO industry wary as OEMs make services inroads: survey
Airlines and maintenance providers have grown increasingly wary of efforts by large OEMs to significantly expand their aviation services divisions and to capture huge swaths of the MRO industry, according to a 2018 survey produced by consultancy Oliver Wyman.
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News
KBRA eyes downgrade for Elix 2017 turboprop deal
Large numbers of aircraft coming off lease and late payments have led Kroll Bond Rating Agency to put on Elix's 2017 securitisation PROP 2017-1 on watch downgrade.
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News
Bombardier’s 2018 goal in reach as CSeries deliveries accelerate
Bombardier in the last several weeks significantly picked up the pace of CSeries deliveries, handing four aircraft to customers in March and putting the company on a trajectory that makes it 2018 delivery goal within reach.