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Milestones in Innovation’ is now available on the App Store. The app brings nine decades of aviation innovation to iPad through beautiful imagery and an interactive timeline. “This is the history of Boeing as a digital coffee table book,” said Fritz Johnston, Boeing’s Vice-President of brand and advertising.
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The U.S. Navy has placed an order for three additional Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scouts and one ground control station. The order is valued at $25.7 million. MQ-8B Fire Scout is an unmanned autonomous helicopter designed for U.S. Navy situational awareness and precision targeting. The
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Brazilian firm Avibras is concluding final assembly of the prototype of the ‘Falcão’ [Falcon], the first domestic aircraft in the 800-kilo class, used for surveillance, reconnaissance, patrol, and sensor tasks, among other missions. The Falcão will have its inaugural flight before July. The Falcão’s frame is made of
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GE Aviation has been awarded a contract by AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems to provide the stores management system for a demonstration involving the Shadow. The contract includes the engineering, manufacturing, installation and data development of GE's Stores and Payload Controller (SPC) used to control the new stores management
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India’s RUSTOM-1 made its 14th successful flight on Tuesday morning at Kolar with attainment of about 11500 feet AGL (above ground level) and speed of above 140 Kmph during 2 hrs 10 minutes of cruise. The aircraft was developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) a DRDO lab at
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An Israel Defence Forces observation airship crashed on May 4, on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The airship was performing a routine surveillance deployment in the Gaza sector when a civilian crop duster flying by hit its cable. As a consequence of the incident, the balloon crashed whereas
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Improvised explosive devices have changed the way the Marine Corps engages hostile forces. The need has risen for supplies to reach the most remote parts of Afghanistan quickly, reliably and safely. Late last year, the Corps began experimenting with the K-MAX unmanned helicopter, able to transport large amounts of
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BAE Systems is assessing software for unmanned aircraft that will operate with an unprecedented level of independence. The project, named Astraea, differs from the current UAS in use in Afghanistan, which are flown remotely by pilots on the ground. Instead the prototypes will follow a set of programmed instructions, with
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced a realignment of its senior management team to support its growth plans.The company promoted Senior Vice President and UAS General Manager Tom Herring to the newly established position of chief operating officer. Herring will focus on the planning and execution of the company's annual
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it is one of two companies that have been selected by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. for a Phase 1 development of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Composite Maintenance System Trainer (CMST) Programme. For Phase 1, Kratos will develop the architecture and
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Arcturus T-20The US military can't buy enough unmanned aircraft systems to suit imagery-hungry combat commanders. Procurement programmes are harder than ever to start in these days of ever-tightening defence budgets. And using a 20thCentury defence acquisition system to buy 21st Century technologies often means getting
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CEI BQM-167A/iKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of the stock of Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) a vertically integrated manufacturer and developer of unmanned aerial target systems and composite structures used for National Security programmes. Kratos