JSF test aircraft F-35A AF-1, the first “optimised” A model F-35, has emerged from Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Final Finishes Facility at Fort Worth sporting its robot applied paint coatings and new hand painted fin flashes on its vertical tails. AF-1 had flown twice late last year before undergoing a period of ground testing, but is
Two landing gear doors fell off a RAAF PC-9/A operating a training flight near RAAF Base East Sale on April 14. “The aircraft was operating in the East Sale Military Training Area, approximately 12km southwest of Heyfield at the time of the incident, and then recovered safely to RAAF Base East Sale,” says a Department
Boeing has awarded Melbourne based Production Parts a contract to supply rudder pedal kits for F/A-18E/F Super Hornets production. The one-year contract gives Production Parts options on future contracts Boeing may receive from the US Navy and international customers for the Super Hornet. The aircraft is currently in contention for sales to Denmark, Brazil, Greece
The USAF Air National Guard (ANG) has taken delivery of its first F-15 Golden Eagle, an F-15C upgraded with a new AN/APG-63(V)3 advanced electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. The APG-63 replaces the ageing APG-70 radar, and gives the F-15s far greater situational awareness and a new anti-cruise missile mission. “When the F-15 was first designed
The first Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft arrived at the US Navy’s east coast test facility at NAS Patuxent River near Washington DC on April 10. The aircraft, dubbed T1, flew from Boeing Field, Seattle, and was ceremonially escorted into Pax River by a P-3C Orion, the aircraft it will replace in service. T1
The second Airbus Military A400M made its maiden flight on April 8. MSN2 took off from Seville, Spain, at 15.15 local time, landing back at Seville four hours and 50 minutes later. Aircraft captain for the flight was Michel Gagneux, joined by copilot Karl-Heinz Mai, with flight test engineers Jean-Jacques Bernard and Emiliano Requena, and
