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RVS 2.0 could pave way for autonomous refueling for KC-46

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by alert5

The improved Remote Vision System 2.0 that Boeing will install on the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker includes LiDAR sensors that could allow autonomous aerial refueling.

U.S. Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner / Public domain

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Missing man flyover for 20th anniversary of Marana MV-22 crash

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by alert5

The memorial service for the 20th anniversary of the Marana MV-22 crash will be held on Apr. 11. Arizona Scorpions Formation Flying Team will be performing a missing man flyover at the service.

English: R. D. Ward / Public domain
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Boeing’s Loyal Wingman is now powered up and sitting on its own wheels

Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 by alert5

Boeing’s Loyal Wingman is now sitting on its own undercarriage with the system powered on for testing.

Photo: Boeing
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Poll found 69% Americans feel that Capt. Crozier should not have been fired

Posted on April 9, 2020 by alert5

Sixty-nine percent of Americans indicated in a Yahoo News/YouGov poll on the Trump administration’s handling of COVID-19 that the U.S. Navy was wrong to have Capt. Brett Crozier removed as commanding officer of USS Theodore Roosevelt.