Aviation News
General Atomics has managed to coaxed the Predator XP UAV to remain airborne for 40 hours. Defense News report that the flight began Feb. 6 and ended Feb. 8, at the company’s Castle Dome Flight Operations Facility at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona.
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Three on board a JMSDF OH-6DA helicopter were killed when the rotorcraft went down in the mountains of Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture on Feb. 12.
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A U.S. Navy helicopter with Training Wing 5 rolled on its side while landing at Whiting Field Naval Air Station’s Naval Outlying Field Spencer on Feb. 12.
Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, the U.S. Air Force’s first female four-star general, will retire this summer. She was also the second women in the U.S. military to reach that rank.
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Boeing has been awarded a $402 million contract to upgrade Japan’s four E-767 aircraft and three ground support facilities.
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