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Black boxes from crashed helicopters found in Mali

Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)

The crash occurred late Monday during an operation against jihadists in the Liptako region, near the borders with Burkina Faso and Niger. It was the heaviest si...

French soldiers killed in Mali helicopter collision

Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)

The accident occurred late Monday when three helicopters and a squadron of Mirage jets arrived to support ground troops pursuing Islamist extremists in the Lipt...

Boeing nabs $10.7M contract to update Saudi air force helicopters

Nov 25, 2019 (UPI)

Military-grade digital recorders, equipment stowage and Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems II capabilities will be installed on 23 AH-6i helicopters, the Pe...

United Technologies awarded $762.5M for Air Force, Marine Corps F-35 engines

Nov 22, 2019 (UPI)

The new deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, funds Lot 14 production and delivery of 48 F135-PW-100 propulsion systems for the Air Force and 1...

Bone breakthrough may lead to more durable airplane wings

Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)

The team's paper, "Bone-Inspired Microarchitectures Achieve Enhanced Fatigue Life," was published Nov. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

First flight for aeroelastic wings at Oberpfaffenhofen special-purpose airport

Nov 21, 2019 (DLR)

Wings with longer spans and lower weight generate less drag - and are therefore more energy efficient. More efficient lift could reduce kerosene consumption and...

Airlines' fuel practices feed doubts over climate commitment

Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)

As the highly competitive air travel industry is being pushed to reduce its carbon emissions -- which it puts at two to three percent of the global total -- the...

NATO announces $1bn upgrade to ageing AWACS fleet

Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)

The Boeing plane, an icon of the Cold War with its distinctive saucer-shaped radar dome mounted on the fuselage, began NATO service in 1982 and is due to be pha...

EasyJet flies into 'greenwashing' row over zero-carbon pledge

Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)

The carrier, based in Luton north of London, announced it was meeting customer demands to reduce its carbon footprint in the short term -- while also researchin...

FSU researchers develop thin heat shield for superfast aircraft

Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)

But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat. A team of FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers from Florida State University's High-P...

Israel's Blue Flag exercises, a meeting of F-35 fighter planes, completed

Nov 18, 2019 (UPI)

It was the fourth biennial exercise hosted by the Israeli Air Force, and although the maneuvers of F-35 fighter plane variants of Israel, the United States, Ger...

Roll-Royce nabs $1.2B contract for V-22 engine sustainment

Nov 15, 2019 (UPI)

The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, covers maintenance and repair of the engines, as well as services to include program management, logi...

Aircraft nose job assessed in Hertz chamber

Nov 14, 2019 (ESA)

"We had a rare gap in our test schedule and were able to accommodate a commercial customer," explains ESA antenna engineer Eric Van Der Houwen. "SPECTO Aerospac...

Congress, Pentagon to hold off on multiyear F-35 contract

Nov 14, 2019 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin and F-35 engine maker Pratt and Whitney want multiyear production contracts for the aircraft, but the program has been dogged by high operating ...

German air force rejects delivery of two Airbus planes

Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)

"The armed forces have decided not to accept two A400Ms due for delivery," the Luftwaffe (air force) said in a statement, adding that "our soldiers' safety in t...

Cargo lock fix for KC-46 tanker approved by U.S. Air Force

Nov 12, 2019 (UPI)

Will Roper, the Air Force's top acquisition official, told Defense News he's confident the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker's malfunctioning cargo locks w...

UAE's $830.3M buy of Chinook cargo helicopters cleared by State Dept.

Nov 11, 2019 (UPI)

The sale, approved by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Nov. 7, is the 10th Foreign Military Sale request by the UAE since 2017, and could add $830.3 m...

Memory metals are shaping the evolution of aviation

Nov 08, 2019 (SPX)

Together, these provide the structure to test a very slight metal rod, no longer than six inches. It seems like quite the production to hold something so minusc...

Lockheed nets $184.5M for organic depot level repairs on F-35s

Nov 07, 2019 (UPI)

The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, tasks Lockheed with establishing organic depot level repair capabilities for the F-35 aircraft u...

Nine EU countries call for steeper aviation tax

Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)

Finance ministers from France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden urged the EU to come up with new measures to target the industry, but fell...