Aviation News
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U.S. Marines KC-130J Harvest Hawk Gunship fires Hellfire missiles
Terrorists beware !!
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A little old
But should be of interest to our members.
Heinkel He 219 Night Fighter link - http://blog.nasm.si.edu/restoration/restoration-news-heinkel-he-219-night-fighter/
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That's a bummer about the Sea Fury, but it looks repairable to me?
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Australia
5 August 2014 Press Release
The world?s newest, most modern and efficient aircraft, the Airbus A350 XWB has made its debut in Australia, landing at Sydney?s Kingsford Smith International airport on August 5th, after flying in from Johannesburg, South Africa.
The aircraft is operated by Airbus flight crews and while in Sydney a representative airline schedule operation has to be demonstrated such as normal airline turnarounds using airport handling services. The aircraft will also be shown to media and to special guest. On the 5th afternoon, the aircraft will fly to Auckland in New Zealand with VIP passengers.
The tests form part of the final trials required for aircraft Type Certification, which is expected in Q3, 2014. A350-900 (MSN 5) is one of five A350 test aircraft one of two with an Airbus cabin with 265 seats (42 business and 223 economy). The A350?s World Tour began on July 24th and involves a series of tests on four different trips. It will visit 14 airports around the world and will end on August 13th.
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Yesterday just down the hill
LINK - http://www.chch.com/delay-lancaster-takes-flight-england/
SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 2014 ? Boeing has been awarded a $250 million production contract to upgrade the flight deck and avionics on NATO?s fleet of 13 AWACS aircraft. The digital flight deck (shown here) already has been installed on one NATO AWACS as part of an earlier Engineering, Manufacturing and Development contract.
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Los Angeles, Aug 6, 2014 ?In a simulated ocean recovery of an Orion spacecraft test article, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], NASA and the U.S. Navy practiced recovery techniques for retrieving the crew module after it splashes down at sea following its first test flight later this year. This test allowed the team to evaluate procedures, hardware and personnel responsible for the recovery.
During the test, which took place off the coast of San Clemente Island, U.S. Navy dive teams retrieved and positioned the Orion test article on the USS Anchorage using a Lockheed Martin built recovery cradle, recovery winch, and sea anchor. The information gathered during this phase of testing will help ensure a safe and efficient recovery of the crew module and collection of flight test data after splashdown.
?Completing recovery simulations in a real, ocean environment before EFT-1 is incredibly helpful,? said Larry Price, Lockheed Martin Deputy Program Manager for the Orion program. ?This test allows us to improve the procedures for handling the crew module and determine if the recovery equipment designs are precise, safe and efficient.?
Orion will complete its first test flight, Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), on December 4, 2014. During EFT-1, the uncrewed spacecraft will launch on a Delta IV Heavy rocket and will travel 3,600 miles beyond low Earth orbit?15 times further than the International Space Station. That same day, Orion will return to Earth at a speed of approximately 20,000 mph for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The flight will provide engineers with data about systems critical to crew safety such as heat shield performance, separation events, avionics and software performance, attitude control and guidance, parachute deployment, and recovery operations to validate designs of the spacecraft before it begins carrying humans to new destinations in deep space.
Seattle, Aug. 6, 2014 ? The 15th P-8A Poseidon built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] arrives at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., where it will help expand the U.S. Navy?s long-range maritime patrol capabilities.
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7 August 2014 Press Release
The world?s newest, most modern and efficient aircraft, the Airbus A350 XWB, made its Chilean and South American debut this morning, arriving at the FIDAE fairgrounds located in the Santiago Arturo Merino Ben?tez International Airport.
The aircraft, MSN 005, is one of five A350 XWB prototypes used to perform comprehensive flight test and development trials. The aircraft flew to Santiago as part of its ?Route Proving? mission required for Type Certification, which is expected in September this year. This exercise will include the aircraft flying a representative airline schedule, demonstrating its maturity for airline operations. The aircraft will be operated by Airbus flight crews.
Previously, the aircraft visited Johannesburg, South Africa, Sidney, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand. The A350 XWB departed for Sao Paulo, Brazil, today on Wednesday, 6th August.
The A350?s World Tour began on July 24th and involves a series of tests on four different trips. At the end of the tour on August 13th, the aircraft will have visited 14 airports around the world.
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And in the UK, she made it.
What an amazing feat, well done to the lads down the hill.
(Photo RAF)
