Aviation News
A U.S. Navy P-8A had to make an emergency landing at Corpus Christi International Airport, Texas on Nov. 6 after its left engine caught fire.
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Europrop had warned Airbus that data needed to run its TP400-D6 engine smoothly could be accidentally wiped, seven months before the fatal crash of a A400M in May 2015.
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Germany’s “preferred choice” to replace its aging Tornado fighter-bomber is the Lockheed Martin F-35, an official said at the International Fighter Conference on Nov. 8.
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At the International Fighter Conference in Berlin, a Royal Malaysian Air Force officer disclosed that Malaysia is looking at procuring a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) that can go supersonic while powered by a single engine.
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Chief of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, Gen. Affendi Buang, told the media while attending the Defence and Security 2017 exhibition in Thailand that a technical team will soon be set up for the evaluation of the maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) competition.
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