All United States articles – Page 199
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NewsNASA claims low-noise milestone for supersonic jets
Proving an engine design is powerful enough to fly commercial passengers at supersonic speeds and quiet enough to meet future airport noise regulations is a new goal for NASA.
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NewsAviation gains in US military's new budget proposal
Aviation programmes received a significant boost in funding in the Obama administration's fiscal year 2016 budget submission, which is up 6.7% on the enacted total for FY2015.
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Aero Maintenance eyes Latin America with ANAC certification
Precision Electronics, a division of US MRO provider Aero Maintenance Group, has received certification from Brazil’s civil aviation authority ANAC, opening the door for expansion south of the US border, the company announces.
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Opinion
OPINION: Time for Boeing to control 787 costs
Boeing has spent a lot of money on the 787 programme. How long will it take to make a profit on the project, and do investors care if accounting rules allow it to declare a unit profit now?
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NewsCessna rolls out first production Latitude
With certification still expected in the second quarter, Cessna rolled the first Citation Latitude built to be delivered to a customer off the production line in Wichita, Kansas.
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Army plans to modernise helicopters in peril
The US Army has a tight and relatively inflexible plan to modernise existing rotorcraft and eventually achieve a future vertical lift aircraft within the budget it has.
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NewsGE gears up for engine tests of GE9X parts
GE Aviation will shortly begin running a test engine equipped with a number of advanced-technology components that will feature on the GE9X powerplant destined for the Boeing 777X.
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NewsGulfstream to boost mid-cabin jet production
Gulfstream plans to boost production of green mid-cabin aircraft by nearly one-third this year, says Phebe Novakovic, chairman and chief executive of parent General Dynamics.
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NewsBoeing reports new cost increases on 787 programme
Reaching an ever-elusive breakeven point on Boeing’s 787 programme slid still further from the company’s grasp in an otherwise profitable fourth quarter and 2014 overall.
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NewsVIDEO: Parachute saves Cirrus SR22 pilot as he ditches off Hawaii
Another Cirrus SR22 pilot looks to have been saved by the aircraft’s parachute when he ran out of fuel 220nm (400km) from Hawaii.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Lynx 'set to roar' in 2015
While Virgin Galactic waits for the results of an NTSB investigation into the 31 October 2014 fatal crash of SpaceShipTwo, another Mojave-based suborbital hopeful is making steady progress towards first flight of a very different concept.
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NewsBoeing, Lockheed move Super Hornet seeker to export market
Boeing and Lockheed Martin will seek to develop an export market for the IRST21 (infrared search and track) pod after gaining production approval from the US Navy, company officials say.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Where next, Virgin Galactic?
A 2014 that opened with great expectations that the era of privately funded personal spaceflight would finally begin ended with a crash, nowhere near space
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NewsDARPA invites industry to explore collaborative UAV technology
The USA’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation inviting industry to be involved in the first phase of an effort to develop “collaborative autonomy” capabilities for unmanned air vehicles.
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NewsIn storage: Top 10 parked airliner types
What airliners are you most likely to find parked? Ascend Fleets data for January 2015 reveals the types with the most non-active examples.
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Opinion
OPINION: Will Lockheed cope with F-35 production rate hike?
A complex global supply chain, unfamiliar structural materials and aircraft systems, a history of supplier bottlenecks and serial breakdowns on the assembly line: are we talking about the Lockheed Martin F-35 or the Boeing 787? Frustratingly, the answer is both.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can Eurofighter enhancements power sales revival?
This could be a pivotal year for the four-nation Eurofighter programme, as partner companies Airbus Defence & Space, Alenia Aermacchi and BAE Systems push to secure fresh export deals on the back of a range of capability enhancements which are now starting to approach operational readiness.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Space Station maintaining orbit – for now
The International Space Station has been the focal point of human spaceflight activity for so long now that the outpost can seem like a permanent, if remote, feature of our planet.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Hurdles ahead as Lockheed works to meet full-rate F-35 production
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an incredibly complex jet fighter. Each jet is hand assembled from about 300,000 parts by more than 1,000 workers at the company's mile-long Fort Worth, Texas, manufacturing facility.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: F-35 production system evolves ahead of ramp-up
Mass manufacturing and stealth aircraft have never mixed well. Hundreds of thousands of parts must align at tolerances measured in the thousandths of an inch. A structural misalignment no wider than a few human hairs is enough to make the aircraft shine like a lighthouse in electromagnetic space.