All Fixed-wing articles – Page 585
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Boeing recovers Down Under
Delays and cost-overruns on major Boeing Australia contracts with the RAAF led to an injection of fresh blood two years ago ...
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NewsILA: Eurocopter pledges dramatic increase in R&D spending
Eurocopter chief executive Lutz Bertling believes he has a winning formula to see his company safely through the recession: drastically increase spending...
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Lockheed marks 1st supersonic flight by STOVL F-35B
Four months after completing the first vertical landing, the Lockheed Martin F-35B flight test fleet also has surpassed the sound barrier ...
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NewsVIDEO: Northrop Grumman wins race to revive hybrid airships with $517 million order
Northrop Grumman will spark a hybrid airship revival with a $517 million contract awarded today to deliver three slightly heavier-than-air aircraft to the...
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PICTURE: India's first three C-130Js near completion
Lockheed Martin has moved India's first three C-130J transports to their final positions on its Marietta assembly line ..
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ILA: Diehl completes Dasell purchase, but worries over German defence cuts
Diehl has finalised its acquisition of interiors specialist Dasell, and expressed concerns over Germany's planned defence spending cuts ...
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Chile sets aside funds for C-130 upgrade
Chile's air force has disclosed an allocation of $10 million to modernise its fleet of Lockheed Martin C-130 tactical transports.
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Venezuela will add to armed K-8 fleet, says Chavez
Venezuela intends to acquire a second batch of Hongdu K-8W armed jet trainers from China, according to President Hugo Chavez. Revealing the plan on...
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ILA: Lockheed touts C-130J's role alongside A400M
Lockheed Martin is seeing strong and long-term interest in its C-130J tactical transport from the US government and military operators around...
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ILA: Grob reveals smallest training aircraft with ejection seats
Grob Aircraft has chosen ILA to take the wraps off a radical revamp of its popular G120-series elementary and basic military trainer, having equipped the aircraft with a sophisticated Elbit avionics suite and a pair of Martin-Baker ejection seats.
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ILA: Airbus chief hails 10 years of tanker experience, as KC-X response nears completion
Ten years of EADS also means a decade of experience in the tanker sector, says Airbus chief executive Tom Enders. The German air force contracted Airbus...
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New Mi-171M design shoots from the Hip
Russian Helicopters will freeze the design configuration for a new-generation version of Mil's ubiquitous Mi-8/17 transport helicopter in July ...
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NewsILA: Eurofighter submits Tranche 3B offer, as Serbia shows interest
The Eurofighter consortium has submitted a proposal for the Tranche 3B production of 124 aircraft for Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK ...
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ILA: AgustaWestland proposes AW101 for Luftwaffe CSAR requirement
AgustaWestland has pitched its AW101 platform as a means of meeting the German air force's combat search and rescue (CSAR) requirement. The request...
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ILA: A400M sports new 'Grizzly' decal
Airbus Military has given claws to its A400M transport, with MSN001 sporting a new "Grizzly One" bear marking next to its crew door ...
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Medevac NH90 ‘ready in 20 months’
Eurocopter is developing a new medical evacuation variant of its NH90 helicopter, in response to a German military initiative to increase availability of...
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NewsBoeing willing to let Japan develop new deriviative of F/A-18
Boeing, which is proposing the F/A-18E/F for Japan's forthcoming FX fighter competition, would be willing to let the nation develop its manufacturing capability through the joint development of a new derivative of the Super Hornet.
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ILA: A400M funding
Ministers from the four Airbus states have highlighted the importance of the A400M military transport, although the new UK coalition government's representative...
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ILA: 2010 marks B-52's Berlin show debut
The US Air Force's corral display of large aircraft at the show includes a debut ILA appearance by one of the service's veteran Boeing B-52H bombers.
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NewsILA: Eurocopter reveals Chinook-style heavy transport helicopter design
Eurocopter's proposed Heavy Transport Helicopter design has changed dramatically, thanks to the company's co-operation with Boeing ...