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Military Aviation News June 1, 2021

Joint Venture BeLightning Kicks Off Horizontal Tail Program

The BeLightning joint venture between Asco Industries, Sabca and Sonaca Group, has officially kicked off activity to build horizontal tails and related components for the…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News January 7, 2015

AirAsia jet tail found underwater, black box may be close by

(Reuters) – The tail of a crashed AirAsia jet has been found upturned on the sea bed about 30 km (20 miles) from the plane’s…

General Aviation News, Space News November 3, 2014

Rocket plane’s tail activated prematurely in fatal crash

(Reuters) – A team investigating the fatal test-flight crash of a Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship found that its rotating tail, designed to ease reentry into…

Military Aviation News May 8, 2014

BAE Systems has the 150th aircraft set for F35 fighter programme completed

BAE Systems completed the manufacture of the 150th F-35 rear fuselage and tail set at our military aircraft factory in Samlesbury, Lancashire The 150th aircraft…

General Aviation News November 30, 2013

Where can you see this “Cobra” tail art

This Dassault Mirage F.1 Cobra Tail Art can you find at the Museo Aeronautico de la Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana

General Aviation News October 22, 2013

Fokker designs and manufactures tail section for the new Dassault Falcon 5X

Fokker designs and manufactures tail section for the new Dassault Falcon 5X Fokker Aerostructures, a Business Unit of Fokker Technologies, designs and produces the tail…

Civilian aviation news April 15, 2013

FAA launches tail inspections on Boeing 737s

US air-safety regulators on Monday said they would inspect more than 1,000 Boeing 737s for a faulty tail part that could cause a pilot to…

Civilian aviation news April 15, 2013

FAA orders airworthiness directive on 737 aircraft, for faulty tail part

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has ordered more than 1,000 Boeing 737 jets registered in the United States to be inspected for a potentially faulty…

Military Aviation News March 21, 2013

Dambusters 70th Anniversary Tail Art revealed

To mark 70 years since the formation of the RAF’s elite 617 “Dambusters” Squadron TV historian and presenter Dan Snow has today formally unveiled commemorative…

Civilian aviation news October 22, 2012

A350 XWB vertical tail plane gets its livery

The vertical tail plane of the first flyable A350 XWB (MSN1) has just come out of the paint hall in Toulouse sporting the well-known Airbus…

Military Aviation News June 28, 2012

100th Anniversary scheme RAF Valley based No IV Squadron released.

RAF Valley based No IV(Reserve) Squadron has released photographs of one of its Hawk T2 aircraft painted in a 100th anniversary commemorative scheme. The scheme…

Military Aviation News May 1, 2012

RAF 3 Sqn 100th Anniversary Commemorative Markings

Royal Air Force 3 (Fighter) Squadron has today released photographs of one of its Typhoon aircraft in a 100th anniversary commemorative paint scheme. The scheme has…

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