Sikorsky S-97 Raider Achieves First Flight - DefenseNews.com [feedly]

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Sikorsky S-97 Raider Achieves First Flight - DefenseNews.com
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Sikorsky S-97 Raider Achieves First Flight
DefenseNews.com
WASHINGTON — The Sikorsky S-97 Raider hit an important milestone Friday with the successful first flight of its experimental rotorcraft. The S-97, with two pilots, took off at the company's West Palm Beach, Fla., facility about 7 a.m. and performed ...
Sikorsky S-97 RAIDER™ Helicopter Achieves Successful First FlightPR Newswire (press release)
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Second SpaceShipTwo Sits On Its Own Landing Gear [feedly]

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Second SpaceShipTwo Sits On Its Own Landing Gear
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Company Making Progress, But 'Still Much To Be Done' Virgin Galactic sent out a Tweet Friday that the second SpaceShipTwo had been lowered onto its landing gear in a hangar in California.
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HELLADS laser weapon to undergo field testing [feedly]

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HELLADS laser weapon to undergo field testing
// Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense

Washington (UPI) May 22, 2015
A new laser from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to undergo field tests after successfully demonstrating its laser power and beam quality. The field testing of the High-Energy Laser Area Defense System, or HELLADS, will begin this summer. The series of tests, funded by DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory, will be against rockets, mortars, vehicles and surro
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Azul signs firm order for up to 50 Embraer E-Jets E2 - Aerospace Manufacturing and Design [feedly]

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Azul signs firm order for up to 50 Embraer E-Jets E2 - Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
// embraer: Google Noticias

Aerospace Manufacturing and Design

Azul signs firm order for up to 50 Embraer E-Jets E2
Aerospace Manufacturing and Design
São José dos Campos, Brazil – Embraer S.A. and Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras S.A. have reached a final agreement for 30 firm orders for the E195-E2 jets. The contract, announced as a Letter of Intent (LOI) during the 2014 edition of the Farnborough ...
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Azul, Embraer sign order for up to 50 E195-E2 aircraftCAPA - Centre for Aviation
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Embraer close to resuming KC-390 flight tests - Flightglobal [feedly]

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Embraer close to resuming KC-390 flight tests - Flightglobal
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Flightglobal

Embraer close to resuming KC-390 flight tests
Flightglobal
Embraer will in the next two months resume test flights of its developmental KC-390 transport and tanker, following a lengthy pause since its first – and only – sortie on 3 February. This "lay-up period", says Jackson Schneider, chief executive of ...

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Airbus UK president warns of 'huge' risk of EU exit [feedly]

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Airbus UK president warns of 'huge' risk of EU exit
// Airlines news

​Airbus Group's UK president has warned that a UK exit from the European Union would pose "huge" economic risks and stressed that thorough consideration of the long-term impact is essential.
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S-97 Raider makes debut test flight [feedly]

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S-97 Raider makes debut test flight
// Aircraft news

​Sikorsky has completed a first flight of the self-funded S-97 Raider at the company's flight test facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, to open a year-long test and demonstration phase for the high-speed, compound helicopter proposed for light attack, scout and special utility missions.
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VIDEO: Boeing confident in SB-1 design for Pentagon's FVL [feedly]

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VIDEO: Boeing confident in SB-1 design for Pentagon's FVL
// Aircraft news

​Boeing is banking on its partnership with Sikorsky on the SB-1 Defiant demonstrator to help usher in the next generation of rotorcraft for Army but still anticipates that its long-serving AH-64 Apaches and CH-47 Chinooks will continue to dominate the skies out to 2060.
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