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SP's MAI Issue No. 8 | April 16-30, 2014 - Aerospace Updates

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  LCA Navy goes supersonic

  Just days before the second anniversary of its maiden flight, the naval variant of the light combat aircraft (LCA) Navy (NP-1) has successfully completed its first supersonic flight, signaling that the aircraft is now able to fly faster...

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  Opportunities for retired Air Warriors

  Monster India, a leading online career and recruitment solutions provider and the Indian Air Force Placement Cell (IAFPC) collaborated to provide a platform to assist the retired and shortly retiring Air warriors...

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  Textron AirLand‘s Scorpion achieves Mach 0.72

  Textron AirLand, LLC, a joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises, LLC, recently announced that the Scorpion has completed 50 hours of flight time since the start of flight testing in December 2013.

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  Antonov tests An-70

  Antonov Company has completed state joint tests of the An-70 widebody STOL military transport. In the process of ground and flight tests on the modernised aircraft correspondence of the checked parameters...

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  Boeing updates timing of C-17 production

  Boeing has adjusted slightly the timing for ending C-17 Globemaster III production and closing its Long Beach, California, C-17 final assembly facility after a successful two-decade production run of the world’s premier airlifter.

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  First C-130J Super Hercules ‘Shimshon’ arrives in Israel

  Israel’s first Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules airlifter arrived at Nevatim Air Base recently. Israel ordered its C-130Js through a foreign military sale (FMS) contract with the US Government.

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  Apache flies 50,000 hours in Afghanistan

  The British Army’s Apache attack helicopters, operated by the Army Air Corps, flew their 50,000th hour on operation in Afghanistan recently. This represents a third of all UK Apache flying, a huge proportion of the total.

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  HAL proposes single agency to deal with foreign OEMs

  The Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) have decided to work on joint plans on various fronts for better understanding of issues so that both contribute effectively in India’s defence preparedness.

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  Oman Air Force continues F-16 legacy

  The Sultanate of Oman accepted the first of its second order of Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcons in a ceremony April 3 at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility.

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  F-35 fleet surpasses 15,000 flying hours

  The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fleet recently surpassed 15,000 flight hours, marking a major milestone for the programme.

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  Kaman flies first New Zealand Super Seasprite

  Kaman Aerospace announced recently that the first New Zealand Government NZ SH-2G(I) Super Seasprite helicopter began production flight testing at Kaman’s Bloomfield, Connecticut facility.

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  UCAV: A world first for Dassault Aviation

  Dassault Aviation organised a formation flight of the nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) with a Rafale fighter and a Falcon 7X business jet.

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  X-47B completes night flights

  The unmanned X-47B conducted its first night flight on April 10 over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.

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  US Coast Guard receives C-27s

  The US Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert J. Papp said he was ”delighted“ to receive 14 of the 21 brand-new C-27J Spartan medium-range aircraft that were consigned to the boneyard by Air Force budget cuts.

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  Airbus A400M to Turkish Air Force

  Airbus Defence and Space has handed over the first of ten A400M new generation airlifters ordered by the Turkish Air Force. The Turkish Air Force formally accepted the aircraft from Airbus Defence...

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  Airbus Defence and Space delivers 17th HC-144A aircraft to US Coast Guard

  Airbus Defence and Space, Inc. has delivered the 17th HC-144A Ocean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft to the US Coast Guard.

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  Northrop Grumman flies first production Smart Node Pod

  Northrop Grumman Corporation has completed a series of flight tests demonstrating the first production Smart Node Pod for the US Air Force.

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  Russian Air Force to receive 16 new MiG-29 SMT fighters

  The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a $470 million contract with the MiG Corporation for the delivery of 16 advanced MiG-29 SMT fighters, the ministry said recently.

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  Japan Police Agency orders another AW139

  AgustaWestland and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace announced that the Japan National Police Agency (JNPA) has ordered another AW139 intermediate twin helicopter which will be operated in the Kagoshima Prefecture.

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  Global Hawk expands satellite communications capability

  The US Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has completed a series of ground and air demonstrations at Beale Air Force Base, California...

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  Northrop Grumman to build five more MQ-8C Fire Scouts for US Navy

  Northrop Grumman Corporation will build five additional US Navy MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters, which allow ship commanders to extend their intelligence-gathering capabilities far beyond the horizon.