September 08, 2011 Military Aviation News
09/08/2011
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has received a development contract for a project to create an indigenous jet training and combat aircraft. According to the agreement between the company and Turkey's Undersecretariat for Defence Industries, Savunma Sanayii Müstesarligi (SSM), the two-year project will focus on showing the needs and capacity of the nation's industry.
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09/08/2011
The new Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal N A K Browne, has reached out to India’s fledgling private aerospace industry. Worried by the growing inability of public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to keep the IAF fleet flying, Browne has promised to back a private sector production line that will manufacture a replacement for the vintage HS-748 Avro transport aircraft. The private sector is needed, says the IAF chief, to back the air force’s major expansion.
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09/08/2011
The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme is expected to see a series of maiden flights in the next few months. Three aircraft from the LCA stable, the Limited Series Production (LSP-7 and LSP-8) and the naval variant of the aircraft, Naval Prototype-1 (NP-1) will take to the skies.
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09/08/2011
India will procure over 300 Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets and Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) at a total cost of Rs 64,408 crore to strengthen the combat capability of the IAF, the government said today. Replying to a question on procurement of combat aircraft in the Rajya Sabha, Defence Minister A K Antony said, "Su-30 MKI aircraft and Tejas LCA are the major modern combat aircraft that have been contracted for induction into the Indian Air Force."
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09/08/2011
As many a driver knows to their cost, putting the wrong thing in your petrol tank at the local garage is an embarrassing business. But when it's military aircraft you're dealing with instead of a Ford Focus - such a mistake can be very expensive indeed. That's what red-faced air chiefs have discovered after de-icer was wrongly added to £1.5million of aviation fuel – rendering it unusable.
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09/08/2011
It is bit of a trick question: It happened last week when 28 of the fighter jets took off from Langley Air Force Base to avoid tangling with Hurricane Irene. But the experience was more than historical trivia for pilots of the 1st Fighter Wing, who have been unable to fly their aircraft since early May. The Air Force grounded its Raptor fleet on May 3, expressing initial concerns about its oxygen supply system, then expanding its examination to encompass the entire aircraft.
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09/08/2011
For four years, a doctor commuted between his clinics in Texas in a $5 million turboprop with jazzy metallic stripes and ruby stones embedded on the drink cabinet inside. The plane featured exotic wood veneers and polished chrome, and his daughter’s initials were in the tail number.
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