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G2 Solutions @ November 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
GE Aviation has executed some very shrewd acquisitions in the avionics field over the past 2-3 years. The acquisition of Naverus is a very positive investment on the part of GE.
GE Aviation believes its acquisition of Naverus will give it broader scope to market performance-based navigation capabilities to airlines and other users.The purchase was closed [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
F-18 is the preferred choice of Brazilian pilots, Gripen is the preferred choice of the business community and Rafale is the preferred choice of politicians. Guess who will win it? There is still a high level of uncertainty regarding Rafales’ chances. Dassault might publicly be optimistic, but nothing is guaranteed until [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Five killed as Italian C-130J transport crashes
Precipita aereo militare a Pisa
Photo: Corriere Della Sera
G2 Solutions @ November 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
There she is, one keeps wondering what could have been… Steve Trimble’s latest from his trip to Tel Aviv.
G2 Solutions @ November 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
There’s an allure to flying long distances over deep water.
Flying the Oceans, written by Horace Brock, tells the story of the early years of Pan Am. The book evokes my admiration. Those were the formative years of Pan American World Airways, and Brock’s book contains enthralling accounts of 23-hour trips from San Francisco to Honolulu. [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Aviation Week reports:
Airbus has finally broken through the 200 aircraft order ceiling for its A380s with Air Austral firming up its order for two of the megatransports.
The airline, which connects Paris to La Reunion and will use the A380 in a 840-seat configuration, also is considering further orders as it examines whether to expand service [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The always excellent Guy Norris reports:
Here are some of the first parts for the first Airbus A350. But these parts weren’t photographed in France, Germany, Spain or the UK, or anywhere in Europe for that matter - but in a small specialist metal manufacturing company in Los Angeles. The company, McStarlite, produces the engine nacelle [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Avweek reports:
Sixteen lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — are calling on the Defense Dept. to develop a mechanism to penalize a Northrop Grumman/EADS proposal to replace KC-135 refuelers for the U.S. Air Force.
Note: carry on Gentlemen, this could do some serious damage to US companies bids overseas…
G2 Solutions @ November 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A significant exercise will take place right after the conclusion of the Dubai Airshow in the United Arab Emirates. The Al Dhafra airbase will host teams of six AdA Rafales, six USAF F-22As and six RAF Typhoons as well as the local UAE & French squadrons (and also Pakistani F-16s but unconfrimed). This is the [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Rolling out of the paint hangar in KPAE.
Photo: Boeing
G2 Solutions @ November 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Tomorrow’s announcement from the Ministry of Defense could be many things according to Steve Trimble.
#DXB09: The Dubai surprise
The Ministry of Defense for the United Arab Emirates has called a press conference at the Dubai Air Show on Thursday at 3pm.
The timing of the event — scheduled for the show’s fifth day — is unusually [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This story from the Lancashire Evening Post also contains video of BAE System’s Mantis UAV in flight at the Woomera, Australia Test Range. In an operational format, Mantis is thought to compete with platforms such as the General Atomics MQ-9, which has enjoyed interest and/or sales from Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany.
G2 Solutions @ November 16, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Last week’s news ahead of next month Brazilian announcement:
On November 12, Hervé Morin, the French Minister of Defense, approved an additional order of 60 Rafales. This now brings the total for this type of aircraft ordered from Dassault Aviation to 280 planes.
This multiyear contract reinforces one of the major programs of the French aeronautics industry, [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The camera didn’t catch the helicopters landing, or see the soldiers piling out and securing the landing zone. The unblinking eye attached to a U.S. Army Warrior Alpha unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) circling thousands of feet above the Afghan countryside was too busy keeping watch over the high mud walls of a compound the soldiers [...]
G2 Solutions @ November 13, 2009 # No Comment Yet
BAE Systems has conducted the first few flights of its Mantis unmanned air vehicle under a technology demonstration effort jointly funded by the UK Ministry of Defence.
G2 Solutions @ November 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A Royal Air Force investigative unit is expected here today to find out why a transport helicopter landed and tipped over early Monday, a Naval Air Facility El Centro spokeswoman said.
G2 Solutions @ November 12, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Defense Secretary Robert Gates really hates people talking out of school. Remember his non-disclosure agreements he required senior military and civilian defense leaders to sign? Well, on his way to Oshkosh to visit the company making the M-ATV today, the former spymaster threatened to fire anyone who shares information on the current debate about the [...]
