The World of Aviation

The US Navy delivered its formal bid for the supply of 24 Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin MH-60R helicopters to Australia on July 23 for the Air 9000 Phase 8 future naval helicopter requirement. The MH-60R ‘Romeo’ is competing against Eurocopter’s NH 90 NFH to fulfil the requirement to replace the RAN’s 16 S-70B Seahawks and the gap

Pratt & Whitney has signed a purchase order with Melbourne based Production Parts to manufacture F135 high compressor cases for the JSF program. The agreement, signed on July 19 at the Farnborough Airshow, has a potential value of A$128 million over the production life of the JSF program. “Production Parts has been producing engine components

Raytheon and the US Navy have successfully conducted a series of captive carry tests of the AGM-154 JSOW C-1. The C-1 adds a moving maritime target capability and two-way Strike Common Weapon Datalink (SCWDL) to the standard JSOW GPS guided glide weapon, and the three captive flights demonstrated the C-1’s ability to detect moving maritime

Northrop Grumman has delivered the first operational software package for the JSF’s AN/AAQ-37 Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EO-DAS) system. “EO-DAS is the first capability of its kind, providing pilots with unprecedented full, 360-degree, situational awareness around an aircraft,” said Mark Rossi, Northrop Grumman’s program development director for the JSF radar and EO-DAS. “This software delivery

Embraer and the Brazilian Air Force have announced at the Farnborough Airshow plans by Brazil to purchase 28 Embraer KC-390 tanker transports. The KC-390 is a twin engined high wing design designed to replace the C-130 Hercules in service, and will fulfil a secondary role as an air-to-air refueller. First flight of the aircraft is

Boeing has completed the 100th CH-47F ‘Foxtrot’ variant of the venerable Chinook helicopter at its Ridley Township facility near Philadelphia. The CH-47F is an improvement over the CH-47D, featuring a lower part count in a redesigned forward fuselage, more powerful engines, a Digital Automatic Flight Control System (DAFCS), and the Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS)