EVERETT, Wash. (PRNewswire): Four of the five Boeing (NYSE: (BA)) 787 flight test airplanes are conducting remote test operations this week. ZA005 continues testing from its base of operations in Seattle.
The British have invaded Bay St. Louis, Miss. There, a team of British and American engineers and technicians are working to restore a British Aerospace Lightning back to flying condition. If they?re successful, it will be one of only four flying in the world, and the only example in the United States.
SAVANNAH, Ga.: Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced today that its ultra-long-range, ultra-large-cabin Gulfstream G650 recently reached Mach 0.995 as part of its 1,800-hour flight-test program.
For Arnold Ebneter, EAA 450548, designing and building his own airplane was a lifelong dream. First conceived with a slide rule in the 1950s while attending Texas A&M University, he completed the project, the E-1, with CAD and flight simulator programs in 2005.
WASHINGTON: NASA has extended the Space Program Operations Contract with United Space Alliance, LLC, of Houston to March 31, 2011. The $909,593,590 contract extension supports flight operations for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
The new rule, published Aug. 25 in the Federal Register, requires reporting of accidents involving unmanned aircraft in which a person is killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft has a maximum gross takeoff weight of 300 pounds or greater and sustains substantial damage. AOPA supports the collection of this data so that the industry can better understand the impact of introducing unmanned aircraft into the National Airspace System.
WASHINGTON: Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons.
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Smart Aviation Company of Cairo, Egypt has signed a firm order to acquire two Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft, and has also taken options on an additional three Q400 NextGen aircraft.
(Reuters): Israel is in talks to build the wings for about a quarter of the United States's new F-35 stealth fighter aircraft, an Israeli official said on Monday. Lockheed Martin currently plans to build some 3,200 F-35s costing about $96 million each. An Israeli official who declined to be named said state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries would build the wings.
