April 2014

Military Aviation News April 29, 2014

Fully Configured MC-27J Multi-Mission Tactical Transport Aircraft Completes First Flight

Alenia Aermacchi, a Finmeccanica company, in partnership with ATK (NYSE:ATK), announced that the demonstrator of a fully configured MC-27J multi-mission tactical transport aircraft completed its…

General Aviation News April 28, 2014

Northrop Grumman Upgrades Air Traffic Communication System at IWM Duxford

Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced that its U.K.-based air traffic management systems subsidiary Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems has upgraded the air traffic control…

Military Aviation News April 28, 2014

RAF Wittering A4 Force Elements Support NATO Baltic Air Policing

Squadrons from the A4 Force at RAF Wittering are deploying to support Royal Air Force Typhoon jets as they police the skies above the Baltic…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News April 28, 2014

AirAsia X and GE Sign MOU for CF6 Engines for Its Airbus A330 Fleet

AirAsia X, the long haul, low fare airline affiliate of the AirAsia Group and GE Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the selection…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News April 28, 2014

Search for missing Malaysia plane enters new phase

(Reuters) – The chance of finding floating debris from a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has become highly unlikely, and a new phase of the search…

Military Aviation News April 28, 2014

French Air Force Mirages visit RAF Valley

RAF Valley hosted some rare visitors recently, when a pair of Mirage F1 CR aircraft from Mont de Marsan Air Base in South West…

Military Aviation News April 28, 2014

Lockheed Martin Receives $611 Million Contract for Production of First PAC-3 MSE Missiles

DALLAS, April 28, 2014 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] received a $611 million contract from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for the…

Military Aviation News April 27, 2014

Taiwan Apache chopper crash lands on building (video)

Two Taiwanese pilots were injured on Friday when their Apache attack helicopter crash-landed on a building in northern Taiwan during a routine training mission, the…

Civilian aviation news, Military Aviation News April 25, 2014

28th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster

The largest nuclear power plant disaster that the world has ever seen – at Chernobyl – took place on the night of the 25-26 April…

Civilian aviation news April 25, 2014

Drunk Passenger Arrested on Bali-Australia Plane

A drunk passenger attempting to enter the cockpit of a Virgin Blue airplane en route to Bali from Australia on Friday has been arrested, Reuters…

Civilian aviation news April 25, 2014

GECAS Delivers New Leased Boeing 737-800 to transavia.com

SHANNON, Ireland, April 25, 2014 – GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing arm of GE, announced it delivered a new leased…

General Aviation News April 25, 2014

RAF ATLAS Update

“I first flew in November 2012 in Toulouse with a test pilot. With its fly by wire and side stick it’s massively manoeuvrable, very agile….

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