Aviation News
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has restricted its NH90 pilots from flying over water, in the mountains and over populated areas after one of the rotorcraft had an inflight engine failure on Apr. 16.
By CPL Amanda McErlich [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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A Indonesian Air Force Su-30MK suffered an inflight left engine failure after take off on Apr. 7 and the crew skillfully recovered the aircraft.
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Photo: TNI AU
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was in Jakarta, Indonesia this week and the sale of Lockheed Martin’s Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods were among the 11 commercial and investment agreements announced during the visit.
By Hunini (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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Three F-35s will depart the United States today and are expected to arrive in Israel on Apr. 23. This will increase Israel’s F-35 fleet size to five aircraft.
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Photo: Israeli Air Force
A F-35C loaded with the latest 3F software configuration, has successfully guided a GBU-12 laser-guided bomb to a moving target during testing at China Lake on Mar. 29.
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Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin
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