The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released 20 pages of training materials concerning the collection, processing, and analysis of biological evidence following fatal aviation accidents. The…
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Larry W. Bryant was a UFO researcher, writer, and government transparency advocate who pursued federal records through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). His work…
Read MoreCarrier’s chief signals state support would initially be needed to fulfil ambitions to launch routes. Kazakhstan’s prime minister has instructed the country’s ministry of transport to work with Air Astana to open flights from Astana to New York and Tokyo by the end of this year. Olzhas Bektenov also wants to see the Kazakh capital…
What could become a long-term trend of launching “skinny” routes between continents is emerging among airlines in North America and Europe. A host of airlines are increasingly using single-aisle aircraft to operate ocean-crossing flights from North America to Europe, with summer airline schedules reflecting an uptick in transatlantic flights that will be flown with narrowbody…
Special operations officials are affirming previously declared plans to field the Bell MV-75 tiltrotor but say it will not fully replace the Sikorsky MH-60 special mission variant. Much like the broader US Army, the elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment now plans to simultaneously operate its Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters and the forthcoming Bell MV-75…
An FAA proposed order comes after P&W issued service bulletins to address the concern. The Federal Aviation Administration has responded to a sensor durability problem that has caused multiple incidents of Pratt & Whitney (P&W) PW4000 turbofans suffering tailpipe fires and in-flight shutdowns. The agency issued a proposed airworthiness directive (AD) that would require airlines…
Chief executive Neuhauser sees the Avianca and Gol holding company as well placed to adjust capacity if required. Abra Group chief executive Adrian Neuhauser says the flexibility of the Latin American airline group’s balance of aircraft deliveries and lease redeliveries will allow it to adjust capacity as required by market changes. Neuhauser made that point…
US Special Operations Command officials are planning for the future while still procuring the Block II MH-47G variant of the Chinook heavy-lift type. Even though US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is still purchasing Boeing MH-47G heavy-lift helicopters, procurement officials are already looking for a successor. Speaking at the annual SOF Week conference in Tampa on…
The company hopes to use Talon-A as a test platform for maturing new hypersonic technologies. US start-up Stratolaunch has completed another hypersonic flight with its reusable Talon-A vehicle. The sortie was conducted in March but revealed by Stratolaunch on 21 May. Though the company does not disclose how many high-speed flights Talon-A has logged, the…
While original audio is protected by law, computational techniques are capable of reconstructing close approximation. US investigators are trying to address a privacy concern arising from detailed information released as part of the inquiry into the fatal UPS Boeing MD-11F crash in Louisville last year. The National Transportation Safety Board held a two-day hearing into…
The potential option involves Special Operations Command completing modifications to bring in-production C-130Js to the MC-130J standard. Two US Air Force Lockheed Martin MC-130J special operations transports destroyed in Iran during an April rescue mission could be replaced with modified variants of the standard C-130J variant. That is according to US Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM)…
Combination is described as the ‘world’s first unmanned AEW solution’. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has flown a company-owned MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft for the first time carrying pod-housed airborne early warning (AEW) radar arrays produced by Saab. Conducted from the US airframer’s Desert Horizon flight operations centre in Southern California on 19 May, the…
