If you haven’t heard, Bill Sweetman is leaving Aviation Week today for a new job at Northrop Grumman. He’s also quitting journalism after 42 years. We wish him all the best. Onwards and upwards!
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Some pictures taken at secretive Xi’an flight test center
This person claims to have cycled to the China Flight Test Establishment at Yanliang airbase in Xi’an and no one there stopped him from taking pictures.
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Japanese women cleared to fly AH-1S, AH-64D
Japan’s Defense Ministry has lifted the ban for women to fly the AH-1S and AH-64D attack helicopters in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF).
By Los688 (my own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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USAF scheduled to convert UH-60Ls into HH-60Gs
Sometime later this year, the U.S. Air Force will start converting 21 UH-60Ls from the Army into HH-60G Pave Hawks. A total of $372 million had been spent so far developing and purchasing modification kits for the conversion.
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By Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) (HH60 Pave Hawk – American Air Day Duxford) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
F-35As assigned to Luke AFB dropped their first bombs
Two F-35As from the 62nd Fighter Squadron successfully employed four GBU-12s on the Barry M. Goldwater Range on Mar. 15.
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