September 05, 2011 Military Aviation News
09/05/2011
A frame agreement for the maintenance of Bulgarian-owned jetfighters MIG-29 was signed Saturday between the Bulgarian Defense Ministry and the Russian aircraft corporation MIG. The agreement was sealed at the Krumovo airfield where Bulgaria is marking the 100th anniversary of the country's aviation with a large-scale, two-day air show, titled "Skies for Everyone."
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09/05/2011
The whereabouts of about 30 Ugandan pilots, who were flying with the Libyan air force, are unknown, following the rebels’ capture of Tripoli, Libya’s capital. The pilots, who have been flying with the Libyan airforce since 1979, were sent to Russia for training by former President Idi Amin’s regime. A source in security circles, who was privy to the pilots’ training, said; “the majority of them were from the West Nile.”
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09/05/2011
The investment should remind local authorities that just two decades ago, Romania was one of the top ten countries in the world in the field of airplane manufacturing. Prime Minister Emil Boc walks confidently towards the stand. He smiles broadly at the audience and begins his speech by congratulating the Premium Aerotec division of the EADS group for its “successful investment” in the aircraft components factory in Ghimbav.
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09/05/2011
A summer of discontent for the U.S. Defense Department and Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 Lightning II may be followed by an even tougher autumn as Congress' debt-ceiling "super committee" mulls big defense budget cuts that could affect the next-generation stealth jet fighter.
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09/05/2011
The Air Force is taking a deliberate, measured approach to an apparent technical problem that has kept its F-22 Raptors on the ground since May 3. The problem may have contributed to a crash last year that killed Capt. Jeffrey “Bong” Haney, 31, of the 525th Fighter Squadron, the “Bulldogs.”
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09/05/2011
In the final weeks of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s battle with Libyan rebels, Chinese state companies offered to sell his government large stockpiles of weapons and ammunition in apparent violation of United Nations sanctions, officials of Libya’s transitional government said Sunday. They cited Qaddafi government documents found by a Canadian journalist, which the officials said were authentic.
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