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| Author: | LaurentH [ Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:16 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | Belgium to join Sheppard AFB program |
Stacy Johnson, Times Record News Posted September 26, 2009 at 2:18 a.m. Belgium will be reentering the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program at Sheppard’s 80th Flying Training Wing next year, and the business of training NATO air warriors will continue as usual, according to ENJJPT steering committee chairman Brig. Gen. Franco Marsiglia, commander of the Italian Air Force Academy. The steering committee met this week at Sheppard to discuss details of the multi-national undergraduate pilot training program. “Next year we will have the reentry of the Belgium air force, and we are very lucky because we will have more students and more European instructor pilots,” Marsiglia said. Marsiglia said the steering committee also focused on the new syllabus for pilot training which includes the T-6 Texan II airframe, which replaced the T-37 Tweet this past year for Phase 2 pilot training at the base. “The main change was the new T-6 aircraft and the new syllabus, which is a good syllabus for the... [ Continued ] |
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| Author: | LaurentH [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:12 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | Voorzitter Airbus sluit crash A400M niet uit |
Het is mogelijk dat Airbus onder de huidige omstandigheden het militaire transportvliegtuig A400M niet gaat bouwen. Dat heeft voorzitter Thomas Enders van de Europese vliegtuigbouwer tegenover de Spiegel Online gemeld. "Onder de huidige omstandigheden kunnen wij het vliegtuig niet bouwen", zei Enders, eraan toevoegend dat het beter is het programma vroegtijdig af te sluiten dan zich in nesten te werken. 180 exemplaren besteld Zeven landen, waaronder België, hebben al 180 exemplaren van het militair transportvliegtuig besteld. Talrijke van die klanten hebben al hun ongenoegen geuit over de drie tot vier jaar vertraging die het programma al heeft opgelopen. Enders zei dat hij niet op bedevaart naar Berlijn of Parijs zal gaan om een voortzetting van het programma dat ongunstig is voor Airbus te bepleiten. (afp/adv) HLN 29/03/09 15u49 |
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| Author: | LaurentH [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:35 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | Airbus’s A400M Plane Should Be Canceled in U.K., Lawmakers Say |
Airbus’s A400M Plane Should Be Canceled in U.K., Lawmakers Say By Mark Deen Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Britain’s defense ministry should consider canceling its order for 25 A400M military transport aircraft because manufacturer Airbus SAS can’t rule out further delays in delivery, a panel of lawmakers said in a report. “It is extremely serious that the A400M transport aircraft program is now running two years late and further delays cannot be ruled out,” said James Arbuthnot, a lawmaker from the Conservative opposition who leads the Defense Committee including lawmakers from Britain’s three main political parties. The government should say “whether it considers that there is a real risk that the entire A400M project might be so delayed that abandonment would be preferable,” he said. Glitches with engine-control software have put the A400M at least four years behind schedule, prompting Airbus parent European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. to take a 1.7 billion- euro ($2.2 bill... [ Continued ] |
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| Author: | LaurentH [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:34 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | F-22 Raptor To Make Paris Air Show Debut |
F-22 Raptor To Make Paris Air Show Debut Feb 4, 2009 By David A. Fulghum The U.S. Air Force is taking the F-22 Raptor to the Paris Air Show for the first time this summer, according to Larry Lawson, executive vice president and general manager of the F-22 program. The trip to Paris has been long delayed. A furor that surrounded the detailed customs inspection and electronic surveillance of the F-117 the only time it went to France has apparently subsided. The new U.S. administration has no grudge against France for not participating in the invasion of Iraq. Even recent concerns about the French air force’s electronic surveillance of the Indian Air Force’s Su-30 MKI during a 2008 Red Flag exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., has died down (Aerospace DAILY, Aug. 25). Moreover, the potential for additional U.S. sales and, possibly, foreign sales has removed any remaining barriers. To pique consumer interest, Lockheed Martin has revealed better than expected performance for... [ Continued ] |
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| Author: | LaurentH [ Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:33 pm ] |
| Blog Subject: | Can the Airbus A400M Be Saved? |
Can the Airbus A400M Be Saved? By Hasnain Kazim and Anne Seith 03-02-2009 Enthusiasm is waning for the oft-delayed and over-budget military transport plane A400M, currently under development by Airbus. Not only is the German Defense Ministry reconsidering its orders, but even Airbus CEO Thomas Enders has begun voicing his doubts. When the subject of the military transport plane A400M comes up, the reaction from Airbus CEO Thomas Enders is less than enthusiastic. "We want to build the plane," he told SPIEGEL ONLINE at the just-ended World Economic Forum in Davos. "But not at any price." It is a comment that could be interpreted as a change in direction. Until now, Airbus and its parent company EADS have consistently denied rumors that the project was in danger of being mothballed. But the gigantic plane has long been plagued by equally gigantic problems, leading to exploding costs, frayed nerves and incessant delays. The tune now, as Enders is whistling it,... [ Continued ] |
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