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Lockheed updates on F-35 flight test progress
/Lockheed Martin says the F-35 JSF test fleet has now completed a total of 331 test flights so far this year, and 125 since March 31. In providing an update on the F-35 flight test program so far this year, the F-35A CTOL jets have flown 146 times in 2011, the F-35B STOVL variant 144
Read moreRex buys five leased Saabs
/Regional Express (Rex) has announced its has purchased five Saab 340Bs already in its fleet which it had leased from Saab Aircraft Leasing. “Rex have had these five aircraft on a very long lease from Saab Aircraft Leasing and now that the lease period have come to completion we took the opportunity to purchase these
Read more200th Phenom delivered
Embraer has delivered its 200th Phenom 100 jet, to US based Swift Aviation Group, in a ceremony held at the Company’s headquarters, in São José dos Campos, Brazil during April. Swift, a private aircraft charter company, originally ordered the Phenom 100 in May 2006 and will base the jet at its company headquarters in Phoenix,
Read moreNorthrop Grumman unveils Firebird
/Northrop Grumman has revealed the Firebird, an optionally piloted intelligence gathering aircraft, designed to operate up to four ISR and communications payloads simultaneously through a universal interface, and pitched at the medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAS market. Northrop Grumman developed the Firebird’s unmanned systems architecture, control and mission systems, while Scaled Composites designed, built and tested
Read moreLRIP 2 F-35 makes first flight
The first LRIP 2 (low rate initial production lot two) F-35A Joint Strike Fighter has flown, taking off from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base on May 6. The USAF bound F-35A, AF-8, is due to be the first F-35 delivered to Eglin Air Force Base later this year. It’s first flight followed
Read more787 to be discussed at UQ public lecture
The University of Queensland (UQ) will host a free public lecture this Monday (May 23) to discuss Boeing’s next-generation 787 Dreamliner. Entitled ‘Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Future of Commercial Aviation Today’, the lecture will be hosted by Boeing’s US based Technical Fellow of Aircraft Configuration Design, Michael Drake. In addition to explaining the evolutionary development of
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