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Military Aviation News October 11, 2024

Skunk Works® Demos Revolutionary Adaptive Flight Control

The Big Picture Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® partnered with the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School to conduct full-scale, live flight tests of the Smart…

Airbus A350-941 ET-AVD Ethiopian Airlines

Civilian aviation news February 28, 2024

2023 Safest Year for Flying By Several Parameters

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its 2023 Annual Safety Report for global aviation. Aviation continues to make progress on safety with several 2023 parameters showing…

Space News May 3, 2021

Crew-1 Astronauts Safely Splash Down After Space Station Mission

Four astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, completing NASA’s first commercial crew, long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. The return…

Space News July 15, 2015

NASA’s New Horizons ‘Phones Home’ Safe after Pluto Flyby

The call everyone was waiting for is in. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft phoned home just before 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday to tell the mission…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News December 29, 2014

Virgin Atlantic plane with landing-gear fault lands safely

(Reuters) – A Virgin Atlantic plane with landing-gear problems safely made a “non-standard” landing on Monday at London’s Gatwick airport, but the airport remained closed,…

Space News September 28, 2012

NASA Orion Splashdown Tests Ensure Safe Landings For Astronauts

HAMPTON, Va. — The 18,000-pound test article that mimics the size and weight of NASA’s Orion spacecraft crew module recently completed a final series of…

Space News July 1, 2012

Space Station crew landed in Kazakhstan

A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, mission control said. Russian cosmonaut…

Military Aviation News May 3, 2012

US F-15 crashes in Mideast, crew ejects safely

The U.S. Air Force says one of its F-15E fighter jets has crashed on a routine training mission in the Middle East. Both crew members…

General Aviation News January 18, 2012

Safe skies on satellite’s return

It didn’t happen – but it might have: the Network Management Directorate was on stand-by for the possible uncontrolled re-entry of the Russian satellite, Phobos…

Military Aviation News September 30, 2009

First Operational US Navy Growler Squadron ‘Safe for Flight’

From Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Public Affairs NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (NNS) — Electronic Attack (VAQ) 132 received the official notification in…