Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
More than 140 Reservists with the 446th Airlift Wing are participating in the Pacific Lifeline exercise in Hawaii Jan. 26 to Feb. 9.
Of the squadrons from the wing participating, the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron leads the pack with 84 people. The 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron, 446th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, 446th Services Flight, 446th Mission Support Squadron, and the 446th Airlift Control Flight also have several people participating.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Boeing mechanics began major assembly of the new 777 Freighter at the company’s Everett, Wash., facility today. The 777 Freighter will fly farther and provide more capacity than any other twin-engine cargo airplane.
Workers took the first step in major assembly for the new 777 Freighter by loading its 97-foot-long wing spar into a tool that automatically drills, measures and installs more than 5,000 fasteners into the spar. The spar is the internal support structure that runs through the full length of the wings and provides support to the wing.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $35 million contract to deliver advanced, open-architecture combat systems that will modernize four Tupi-class submarines (1,440t U-209/1400 variant), one 1,550t Tikuna-class submarine (Improved version of Tupi Class submarines) and one shore-based trainer system for the The Marinha do (Brazilian Navy).
Under a contract administered by the U.S. Navy, as part of a foreign military sale for weapons and combat systems to the Brazilian Navy, Lockheed Martin will provide systems engineering, sensors, software and electronics for the modernization of the diesel submarines’ control, combat management, sonar and fire control and weapons launch systems.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Boeing has entered into an agreement with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and two leading Indian information technology companies to develop wireless and other network technologies for aerospace-related applications.
The agreement, signed by representatives from Boeing, IISc’s Society for Innovation and Development, Wipro Technologies and HCL Technologies, forms the Aerospace Network Research Consortium (ANRC).
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
n a successful first test of its advanced fire control system, Lockheed Martin’s Aegis Open Architecture Weapon System recently performed a successful missile firing from the U.S. Navy’s “USS Desert Ship” at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR).
This was the first test of upgrades to both the Aegis Fire Control System and the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) installed on the USS Desert Ship, the Navy’s land-based, live-fire test bed for surface-to-air weapons. The platform is continually upgraded to meet the Navy’s live fire testing requirements.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
The Boeing Company made KC-767 program history Jan. 26 when one if its aircrews successfully transferred fuel from a KC-767 tanker aircraft to an F-15E at night — the first nighttime refueling ever accomplished on a KC-767.
The new tanker, scheduled for delivery to Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) early this year, departed McConnell Air Force Base, adjacent to the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Wichita, Kan., facility, and flew a 3-hour and 9 minute flight. Operating in the skies over Missouri, the aircrew connected the KC-767s fifth-generation, fly-by-wire boom (a telescoping tube used to deliver fuel to military aircraft) to an F-15E 11 times during dusk and night conditions and successfully offloaded fuel before returning safely. The company uses F-15E1 under a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Air Force.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Russian Army aviation has begun trials of the newest night Mi-28N “Night Hunter”, said Chief of Army aviation, Major General Viktor Ivanov.
“Two helicopters sent to trial at the heart of the army aviation in Brooklyn. Simultaneously government is the final stage of joint tests. I think, the process of bringing a helicopter to the full according to our requirements will 1.5-2 years” - V. Ivanov said.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Air Forces of the Royal Thai Air Force, Republic of Singapore Air Force, U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Marine Corps began launching sorties from 27 January in support of Exercise Cope Tiger ‘08.
The coalition pilots and aircrew launched all aircraft participating in the exercise from Korat and Udon as a part of the work-up training, allowing them to become familiar with the local airspace, flying procedures and tactics.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Trishul SAM project has been successfully closed with Indian Air Force receiving an undisclosed number of units.
The Trishul is a short-range, quick-reaction Surface-to-air missile. It is designed to counter low-level targets (including aircraft and missiles) at ranges upto 9 km. Operating in K-band (20-40 GHz), with three-beam guidance, it is highly resistant to countermeasures. The Trishul weighs 130 kg, is 3.1 m long and possesses a 5.5 kg High-explosive warhead to destroy the target.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Flight-testing of the A330 MRTT, the first production aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), has continued at a fast pace and initial handling and performance evaluation are as predicted.
All aerodynamic tests for the A330 MRTT have been completed successfully, as well as testing of handling quality, performance, loads, autopilot and anemometry. An important feature of the process included flutter testing and the flight envelope has been successfully cleared.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Achieving another milestone in its overall strategy to help designers to maximize reliability, minimize power consumption, and save board space and weight in mission-critical space systems, Actel Corporation today announced it has completed the stringent MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification of its four-million gate radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate array
(FPGA). The high-density RTAX4000S device has completed 1,000 hours of high-temperature operating life (HTOL) testing and nearly 80,000 total hours of life testing data to date. This device specific testing data is in addition to the more than 2,000,000 device hours of testing and rapidly accumulating flight heritage achieved by the remainder of the RTAX-S family.
The qualification of the device, combined with its usable error-corrected on-board memory and large number of user I/O, make it ideal for high-bandwidth processing applications in spacecraft payloads. Rigorous testing and qualification of the RTAX4000S toward QML Class Q and QML Class V certification continues.
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