Defense - Aircraft, Airframe |
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Boeing and Alenia Aermacchi, a company of Finmeccanica, have announced an agreement to jointly pursue the international trainer aircraft market. |
02 June 2008: Boeing |
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GKN Aerospace has commenced assembly of the AgustaWestland Future Lynx Airframe at the Company's Yeovil, UK facility. |
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BAE Systems has cut metal on its first component for the F-35 Lightning II production aircraft. This opening cut, on a component part of the aft fuselage, signifies a major milestone for the F-35 Lightning II programme. |
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Boeing has said the U.S. Air Force's decision to award a contract for the next aerial refueling airplane to the team of Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is at odds with the fact that the Northrop/EADS team's KC-30 is less survivable and more vulnerable to attack than the Boeing KC-767 Advanced Tanker. |
16 April 2008: Boeing |
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Boeing's CH-47F Chinook helicopter has been fielded by Bravo Company, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, based at Fort Hood, Texas. This is the second U.S. Army unit to field the CH-47F since the aircraft was certified combat-ready in July 2007. |
09 April 2008: Boeing |
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Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded contracts totaling up to $31 million to provide ship service generators, engineered pumps, secondary propulsion systems, sub-safe ball and swing-check valves for the U.S. Navy's Virginia-Class submarines, SSN-784 and SSN-787. |
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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. has created the 'Combat Flight Hour Award' to recognize soldiers flying in Sikorsky helicopters in unsafe regions around the globe. |
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Northrop Grumman Corporation is adding momentum to its commitment to create international second source suppliers for F-35 Lightning II aircraft components by hosting composite manufacturing training for engineers and manufacturing specialists from Danish firm Terma and Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). |
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Aerojet and Orbital Sciences has announced that together the two companies successfully conducted a static firing of the jettison motor, a key component of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA's Orion next generation human spaceflight program. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the Orion project, which is part of NASA's Constellation Program to send human explorers back to the moon and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. |
09 April 2008: Aerojet |
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Boeing has delivered the Canadian Forces' fourth C-17 Globemaster III today at the company's Long Beach, Calif., C-17 manufacturing facility, completing Canada's order for the world's most advanced airlifter. |
07 April 2008: Boeing |
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AgustaWestland has announced that the the AW139 helicopter has been introduced into the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s search and rescue service. |
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Boeing has started final assembly of the first P-8A Poseidon for the U.S. Navy. The P-8A will provide increased capability in long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. |
06 April 2008: Boeing |
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AgustaWestland and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace are pleased to announce the delivery of three AW139 medium twin turbine engine helicopters to the Japan Coast Guard. |
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Intelligent Automation Corporation (IAC),has announced that the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal awarded a $3.5M one year contract with a $3.5M one year option for research, development, engineering and support services for the Modernized Signal Processing Unit (MSPU) Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) installed on the Apache Helicopters. |
05 April 2008: IAC |
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Sikorsky has begun establishing the supply chain for the S-70i International BLACK HAWK(TM) Helicopter program, and is developing plans for the aircraft's final assembly and hangar operations at the company's PZL Mielec facility. |
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Northrop Grumman Corporation has begun assembling the center fuselage for the first production Lightning II jet, a weight-optimized, U.S. Air Force F-35A conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) variant designated AF-6. The center fuselage is the core structure around which the F-35 aircraft is built. |
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A fleet of new Airbus A330-200s will replace the RAF's TriStar and VC-10 aircraft under a £13 billion PFI deal signed with AirTanker Ltd, announced Baroness Taylor, the Minister for Defence Equipment and Support. |
01 April 2008: UK MoD |
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The Society of British Aerospace Companies has welcomed the contract award to AirTanker consortium by the Ministry of Defence for the provision of an advanced Air to Air Refuelling and Air Transport capability for the Royal Air Force. |
01 April 2008: SBAC |
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Boeing has returned the second C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) aircraft, H2.5, to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for continued testing and software upgrades. |
01 April 2008: Boeing |
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The static tests of a dedicated A400M complete structure has begun at the Military Transport Aircraft Division (MTAD) facilities in Getafe, Madrid. The aim of this testing process is to demonstrate the reliability and integrity of the aircraft structure. |
31 March 2008: EADS |
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A small California aerospace company today unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front- seat rides to the edge of space for the millions of people who want to buy a ticket. |
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SprayCool, a recognized leader in advanced thermal management products and solutions for the military, announced today a follow-on sustainment contract with the Northrop Grumman Corporation ISR Systems Division to provide additional SprayCool liquid-cooled chassis for the Air Force Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) program. |
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The US Army Aviation & Missile Command (AMCOM) awarded Westar Aerospace & Defense Group Inc, the Systems Engineering Group of QinetiQ North America, a task order to provide technical services, and systems engineering and management expertise to the Apache Attack Helicopter Project Manager’s Office (PMO). The not-to-exceed ceiling price for the one-year basic effort, plus four option years, is $13.3 million.
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28 March 2008: QinetiQ |
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With the handover of GT015, a German Twin-Seater aircraft, the final aircraft out of Tranche 1 destined for the four partner Air Forces of Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in the core programme has been delivered on March 20, 2008. |
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One million man hours with no recordable incident injuries or lost days from work has been achieved by Aerojet at its Redmond facility. |
23 March 2008: Aerojet |
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