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• Hughes XF-11 Papercraft (Aircraft)

  
  Paperkraft.net — Authority: 145
  The Hughes XF-11 was prototype recon aircraft designed by billionaire aviator/industrialist Howard Hughes for the United States Army Air Force (c 1946).The XF-11 never made it to the approval stage/final production due to an unfortunate crash, it was supposed to be used by the military for long-range...
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• Review: Fighter Pilot Operation Red Flag

  
  God and Country — Authority: 132
  Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag is a documentary originally produced for IMAX.  It has a nominal plot, following a single F-15 fighter pilot as he participates in Red Flag at Nellis AFB, Nevada.  The primary officer is Captain John Stratton, who also narrates as he plans, flies, and acts as a simulated evader ...
  22 hours ago

• Air Force Fighter Pilot Joins Marine Aviation

  
  God and Country — Authority: 132
  There are a variety of “non-standard” flying jobs in the US Air Force.  Air Force pilots fly the 747 that is most recognizable as Air Force One; they fly tours with a variety of foreign nations, and they also participate in exchange tours with the sister services.The Air Force Times covers one F-15 pilot who ...
  22 hours ago

• Special Delivery

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  The 2010 Chevy Camaro pace car was sent "special delivery" to Texas Motor Speedway for Sundays race aboard a military Chinook helicopter. - Bob Cox
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• Pentagon planning to avert F-35 test delays and cost increases

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  Remember the recent report by a team of Pentagon numbers crunchers and technical experts (the Joint Estimate Team) that said the F-35 program was likely to run two years further behind schedule and $16 billion or more over its current $299 billion budget? And remember that Lockheed Martin execs said the report wasnt ...
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• Ida sitting in F-35s flight path

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  Lockheed Martin test pilot Jon Beesley was scheduled to fly the first F-35B STOVL test aircraft to the Navys Patuxent River flight test center Monday or today, but hurricane-turned-tropical storm Ida got in the way. It seems Ida has brought a lot of clouds and rain and wind into the southeastern U.S. and into the ...
  2 days ago

• F-35 moves by stealth

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  An F-35 disguised as an Amazonian bluebird was spotted on the road near Rendon, TX on Sunday as it tried to move quietly through the countryside without being spotted. This, as you sharp airplane aficionados can quickly tell by the folded wing tips, is an F-35C -- the Navy carrier variant. Lockheed Martin folks tell ...
  3 days ago

• Russian Plane in Pacific Crash

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A military plane with 11 people on board crashed in the Pacific Ocean during a training flight late on Friday, the Defense Ministry said.
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• Airbus Loses Customer for Troop Transport Plane

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  South Africa cancelled a multibillion-dollar order for the Airbus A400M troop transport plane, dealing a painful blow to the program.
  1 week ago

• Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 441
  Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit B-2 Spirit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “ Stealth Bomber ” redirects here. For Stealth aircraft in general, see Stealth aircraft . Role Stealth bomber National origin United States Manufacturer Northrop Corporation ...
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• Unmanned Planes Converted to Climate Scouts

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  A pair of unmanned military aircraft have been turned over to NASA for research on Earths environment.
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• GE F136 engine issues update

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  General Electric spokesman Rick Kennedy sent us a response about the problems with the F136 engine that we reported yesterday. The problem with the engine, the alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, was raising eyebrows since Congress has pushed hard to keep development of the second engine alive over ...
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• Navy Identifies Fallen Pilot

  
  God and Country — Authority: 132
  The US Navy has identified the body of the pilot found after his T-34C went missing off the coast of Texas.  Lt. Bret Travis Miller was found in the Gulf following the disappearance of his aircraft.  Lt. John Joseph Houston remains missing, as does the aircraft.At this point, there is still no information as to [...]
  1 week ago

• Troubles for GE with F136 engine

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  Colin Clark has an interesting post on DoD Buzz today that reports of troubles with the General Electric/Rolls Royce F136 engines are causing consternation in Washington. The F136 is the second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which Congress has repeatedly funded work on against the wishes of the Department ...
  1 week ago

• Military News Update

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 514
  The Navy ship built with more than seven tons of steel from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center arrived in New York Harbor Monday morning. Military medical experts expect to have enough H1N1 vaccine available for all servicemembers and their families. The search for survivors of Thursday’s mid-air ...
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• Lockheed foresees long, rich futures for C-130J, F-16

  
  Flight Image of the Day — Authority: 425
  Lockheed Martin has updated plans for rapidly escalating C-130J Hercules production output, while F-16 deliveries are set to contract for two years before possibly doubling again after 2012. Chief financial officer Bruce Tanner, discussing third-quarterearnings on 20 October, revealed that C-130J deliveries ...
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• Pentagon official says F-35 cost study is pessimistic

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  Tony Capaccio and Gopal Ratnam at Bloomberg News just filed this from Washington. The Pentagon now acknowledges that an analysis by its own team of experts says development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will take longer and cost more than anticipated. As reported on SkyTalk  and in the Star-Telegram last ...
  2 weeks ago

• F-35: Wonder plane of future or boondoggle?

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  Winslow Wheeler and Pierre Sprey, apostles of the old Fighter Mafia that gave the world the F-16 Falcon fighter (and the F/A-18 Hornet as a side effect) and the A-10 Warthog, have written a piece on Huffington Post   today questioning the real usefulness and affordability of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lockheed wooing S. Korea to buy F-35

  
  Sky Talk — Authority: 479
  Steve Trimble, very good aviation reporter for Flight Global, posts on his Dew Line blog today that Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force are in South Korea trying to win hearts, minds and orders for the F-35. Boeing is also working to convince the South Koreans that its F-15SE Silent Eagle (see photo), a modified ...
  2 weeks ago

• Communities Vie for, Oppose Hosting F-35

  
  God and Country — Authority: 132
  When it was first constructed, Luke Air Force Base was well outside of the small town that would eventually become bustling Phoenix, Arizona.  Now Luke suffers from a severe case of encroachment, with occupied houses literally right off the end of the runway.  That encroachment, reflected at many bases across the ...
  2 weeks ago

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