jueves, 18 de mayo de 2017
Russian engineers develop new surveillance, missile defense airships
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Russian engineers develop new surveillance, missile defense airships // Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russian_Engineers_Develop_New_Surveillance_Missile_Defense_Airships_999.html
Moscow (Sputnik) May 10, 2017
Russian engineers are designing new advanced airships which may become a potent element of the country's anti-ballistic missile defenses. On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship Hindenburg crashed in the US during a docking attempt, dealing a critical blow to the public's faith in this method of transportation. And yet despite the fact that mankind has since perfected other meth
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Airbus Safran Launchers to Become ArianeGroup
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Airbus Safran Launchers to Become ArianeGroup // Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Airbus_Safran_Launchers_to_Become_ArianeGroup_999.html
Paris, France (SPX) May 17, 2017
Airbus Safran Launchers, the joint venture created at the initiative of the Airbus and Safran groups in order to reorganize the European launchers sector, is to be known as ArianeGroup. The change in corporate name will be effective as of July 1, 2017. This change in identity, embodied in one of Europe's biggest successes, is the logical next step following the decision of the ESA Member S
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Washington Still Has No Engine to Replace Russian-Made RD-180
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Washington Still Has No Engine to Replace Russian-Made RD-180 // Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Washington_Still_Has_No_Engine_to_Replace_Russian_Made_RD_180_999.html
Moscow (Sputnik) May 17, 2017
US aerospace company Blue Origin suffered a setback while testing its Blue Engine 4 (BE-4), a staged-combustion rocket engine designed to replace Russian-made RD-180s, meaning that Washington still does not have an indigenously built version of a key piece of equipment needed to propel its Atlas V launch vehicles or its analogues into space. The private company, founded by Amazon.com CEO J
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Finland analyses responses in Hornet replacement effort
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Finland analyses responses in Hornet replacement effort // Military news
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/finland-analyses-responses-in-hornet-replacement-eff-437357/
Finland is continuing to analyse responses to a request for information it issued last year as part of the HX programme to replace its air force s fleet of Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornets.
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Strikes could hit A350 wing production
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Strikes could hit A350 wing production // Latest news
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/strikes-could-hit-a350-wing-production-437361/
Airbus could be facing more supply chain misery on its A350 programme after workers at a wing component supplier voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a dispute over pay.
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A380 wake upset inquiry: Offset not permitted on route
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A380 wake upset inquiry: Offset not permitted on route // Airlines news
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/a380-wake-upset-inquiry-offset-not-permitted-on-rou-437303/
German investigators have disclosed that lateral offset procedures were not apparently permitted on the airway being flown by an Airbus A380 and a Bombardier Challenger business jet involved in a serious wake-turbulence upset over the Arabian Sea.
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Italian investigators reveal sharp rise in drone encounters
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Italian investigators reveal sharp rise in drone encounters // Airlines news
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/italian-investigators-reveal-sharp-rise-in-drone-enc-437045/
Italian safety authorities have highlighted a sharp increase last year in the number of encounters between aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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EasyJet opts to take A321neo
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EasyJet opts to take A321neo // Airlines news
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/easyjet-opts-to-take-a321neo-437248/
UK budget carrier EasyJet has finally opted to take the Airbus A321neo, by converting orders for 30 of the smaller A320neo which the airline has on order.
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Microsoft research team creates unique drone training simulator
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Microsoft research team creates unique drone training simulator // The UAS Magazine
http://theuasmagazine.com/articles/1692/microsoft-research-team-creates-unique-drone-training-simulator
Ashsih Kapoor and his Microsoft research team have created a simulated world for unmanned aircraft systems that can provide data for machine learning, autonomous flights and how to avoid crashes.
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Interest seen in Boeing’s “797,” says lessor
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Interest seen in Boeing's "797," says lessor // Leeham News
https://leehamnews.com/2017/05/16/interest-seen-boeings-77-says-lessor/
May 16, 2017, © Leeham Co.: Air Lease Corp., one of the world's leading lessors, sees
John Plueger, CEO of Air Lease Corp.
a "quite a bit" of interest from its customers in the prospective Boeing Middle of the Market aircraft, says its CEO, John Plueger.
Speaking at the Airfinance Journal conference in New York today, Plueger acknowledged …
Boeing Warns Against Long Stealth Fighter Development
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Boeing Warns Against Long Stealth Fighter Development // Aviation Week
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Boeing has cautioned the U.S. Navy against getting locked into another 20-year aircraft development program as it reaches for F/A-XX, the service's next carrier warplane.
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Boeing studying tailsitter VTOL for USMC
Boeing MUX-1: AWST
Boeing is studying a tailsitting vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) design as one of several potential configurations for the U.S. Marine Corps' emerging MUX requirement for a long-range, long-endurance expeditionary unmanned ...