RAF aircraft in successful North Sea helicopter rescue
All 18 people aboard a helicopter which ditched in the North Sea are safe following a major multi-agency search and rescue operation involving RAF aircraft,…
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Bedek Aviation Group to Convert its First B767-300 Aircraft
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Bedek Aviation Group (IAI/Bedek) has reached the milestone of cutting the opening in the fuselage to install the Main Deck Cargo Door…
U.S. Navy Awards General Dynamics Contract Extension for Production of F/A-18 Gun Systems
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a $16 million…
Second ATV named after Johannes Kepler
19 February 2009 ESA’s second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has been named Johannes Kepler after the German astronomer and mathematician. Europe’s next unmanned logistics spacecraft…
Airbus revises production rates.
Delivery target 2009 remains unchanged Blagnac, 19 February  2009 Airbus is adapting production rates of its A320 Family programme from 36 to 34 a month…
EADS Defence & Security to modernise French military identification systems
€ 30 million contract for encryption system upgrade Reliable identification of friendly forces avoids accidental attacks 19 February  2009 EADS Defence & Security (DS) will…
Astrium helps enable the maiden flight of the SIDM UAV in a foreign theatre of operations by supplying new satellite bandwidth in Afghanistan
Astrium Services provides the French Defence Staff with new civil bandwidth in Afghanistan Astrium Services secures the reconfiguration of a satellite for French military needs…
B-52 accident report released
2/18/2009Â -Â LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFNS)Â –Â An improper stabilizer trim setting caused the July 21 crash of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft northwest of Guam, according to…
Rotorsim signs contract to train Norway’s NH90 aircrews
Rotorsim, the consortium owned equally by AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and CAE today announced it has signed a five-year contract to provide NH90 flight simulation…
All rescued as helicopter ditches
All 18 people aboard a helicopter which ditched in the North Sea have survived and have been rescued from two life-rafts, the coastguard has said….
Important first flight
The first aircraft in the latest order of 31 aircraft for the Swedish Armed Forces took to the air for the first time on February…
Lufthansa Expands CFM56-5B-Powered Airbus Fleet
February 18, 2009 — EVENDALE, Ohio — Lufthansa has selected CFM International’s CFM56-5B engine to power 27 new Airbus A319/A320 aircraft in a firm engine…
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