February 27, 2013 Military Aviation News
02/27/2013
America’s military superiority is founded on training and readiness, and the fiscal crisis facing the country threatens to strip away that edge, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress today.
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02/27/2013
Spending cuts under consideration by the U.K. government threaten an 11 billion-pound ($16.7 billion) hole in the defense budget, a research organization said. “If the 2013 spending review leads to further defense spending cuts, the extent of the prospective gap between planned spending and available resources could be significant,” Malcolm Chalmers, research director at the Royal United Services Institute, said in a report published in London today.
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02/27/2013
The Indian Air Force lost another of its Russian made Su-30MKI jet fighters on February 20th. This is the fourth loss since 2009. Two years ago the commander of the Indian Air Force took an hour-long flight in one of India's Su-30MKI to reassure Indian pilots that the Su-30MKI was safe. Two had crashed in 2009 due to mechanical failures and there were widely publicized reliability problems with the engines and many of the other Russian designed and built components of the aircraft.
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02/27/2013
The days of Top Gun fighter pilots in tight flying suits and Ray Bans might be numbered, as support grows for unmanned combat aircraft to lead future air wars. Defence Minister Stephen Smith yesterday revealed that unmanned combat aerial vehicles were under active consideration by the government.
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02/27/2013
You don't have to be an aviation enthusiast to appreciate the mid-air stunt shows that headline the world's biggest and best air shows. Dozens of such events take place each year around the globe, and we've scoped out the best of the bunch.
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02/27/2013
As Boeing continues to address a series of problems related to the use of lithium-ion batteries in its Dreamliner fleet, the Pentagon has announced that it will continue to use the power source as part of its F-35 fighter jet program.
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02/27/2013
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the main research arm of the military, just released some details of a new experimental aircraft program "to develop the next generation of vertical flight." DARPA hopes the Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane can go beyond the current offerings, such as the V-22 Osprey.
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02/27/2013
Federal budget cuts may prevent military aircraft from flying in the Thunder Over Louisville air show, prompting local officials to sign up more civilian air acts to fill out the April 20 event. In past years, the military has contributed more than 50 fighter jets, helicopters, cargo planes and others to the popular air show. But the sequester’s automatic military cuts are threatening events around the nation, including canceling the Indianapolis Air Show scheduled for June.
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02/27/2013
Boeing's liquid hydrogen-powered Phantom Eye unmanned airborne system completed its second flight Feb. 25, demonstrating capabilities that will allow it to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions for up to four days without refueling. During the flight, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Phantom Eye climbed above an altitude of 8,000 feet and remained aloft for 66 minutes at a cruising speed of 62 knots before landing.
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02/27/2013
Four operational flight trainers built by Boeing [NYSE: BA] are up and running at Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.), allowing the U.S. Navy to shift some training for its T-45 aircraft to the ground and thereby improve safety and save money. The flight simulators use high-fidelity, state-of-the-art visuals to train naval flight officers (NFO) on the ground, saving time and freeing up the aircraft for live flight instruction.
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