All Fixed-wing articles – Page 478
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NewsNATO allies expressing interest in optionally-manned K-MAX
There is strong interest amongst the United States' NATO allies for Lockheed Martin's optionally-manned version of the Kaman K-MAX cargo helicopter, a senior...
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NewsTurkey to lease King Air ISR fleet
Turkey has launched a project to lease five Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350s modified to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services ...
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ST Aerospace inks S$540m in MRO contracts in Q1 2012
Singaporean MRO firm ST Aerospace has secured maintenance contracts worth S$540 million ($432 million) in the first quarter of 2012 for its Aircraft Maintenance...
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NewsLive Virtual Constructive technology set to revolutionize air combat training
The US Air Force and Lockheed Martin are getting ready to demonstrate the first operational use of live virtual constructive (LVC) training technology on...
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NewsTwo killed in USMC MV-22 accident in Morocco
The US Marine Corps confirms that a Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor operating from the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima crashed near Agadir, Morocco,...
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NewsUS Navy starts F/A-18D crash investigation
The US Navy has started an aviation mishap safety investigation into a 6 April crash of a Boeing F/A-18D Hornet near Virginia Beach, Virginia ...
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India revises defence offset guidelines
India's new revised defence-offset guidelines will be applied to all contracts awarded after 1 January 2011.
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NewsPICTURE: Bangladesh L-39 crash kills pilot
One crew member died when a Bangladesh air force L-39 jet trainer crashed on 8 April ...
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NewsA400M to make Asian debut with three-nation tour
Airbus Military is to take its A400M development aircraft 'Grizzly 4' on a demonstration tour of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand ...
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NewsNetherlands makes final trim to F-16 fleet size
The Netherlands is to reduce its operational fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16s from 87 to 68 aircraft and defer a decision on buying the company's replacement F-35 until after elections planned to be held in 2015.
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NewsPICTURE: UK's Voyager tanker makes service debut
The UK's new Voyager tanker/transport has made its first flight in operational service, flown by an AirTanker crew ...
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NewsIN FOCUS: Why the UK's carriers will not be 'airfields at sea'
As the UK decides on the Royal Navy's embarked combat aircraft, we go on board a US carrier to discover the particular challenges faced at sea
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NewsIsrael's fire-fighters grounded following incident
Israel's dedicated fleet of eight Air Tractor AT-802F fire-fighting turboprops has been grounded following a safety incident.
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NewsUSAF to rebuild its aerospace physiology expertise
The US Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) investigating the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor's life support system found that the service has allowed...
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NewsFire Scout flights suspended due to crashes
After two incidents resulting in crashes, Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout operations are on an 'operational pause' for the indefinite future ...
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NewsUS Navy Hornet crashes near Virginia Beach
Two US Navy pilots ejected safely from a Boeing F/A-18D Hornet that crashed outside Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, on 6 April. But there is no information...
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NewsLockheed Martin, BAE awarded contracts to support Saudi F-15SA upgrades
Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems are being awarded contracts to supply targeting pods and electronic warfare systems to Saudi Arabia in order to upgrade 70...
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NewsUS Army working to overcome degraded visuals
The US Army is working on increasing the safety of its rotary-wing aircraft in degraded visual environments. An army study recently concluded "the...
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MROAM: Military maintenance depots under pressure
During a time of budgetary uncertainty, military maintenance depots must find ways to economise, say commanders at an MRO Americas panel, and it is likely...