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Cathay Pacific Flight 884 was forced to make an emergency landing at Eareckson Air Station in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands on Jul. 29 after smoke was detected on board.
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Alenia Aermacchi has completed flight testing of the C-27J with winglets and results show that it had improved the lift-drag ratio of the medium turboprop airlifter.
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Photo: Alenia Aermacchi
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The U.S. Marine Corps will fly its last CH-46 flight at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia on Aug. 1.
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Photo: Boeing
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The U.S. Congress has been notified by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency of a potential foreign military sales case of 600 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles to Saudi Arabia.
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Bloomberg has obtained a memo written by Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Michael Gilmore, in which he criticized the poor reliability of the F-35B during its operational testing on board USS Wasp.
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