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FUTURE FOCUS CMV-22B Osprey The US Navy will replace its C-2A Greyhound carrier on-board delivery (COD) aircraft with a variant ...

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B OEING CELEBRATED TWO milestone events on May 4: the o cial opening of its new service life modi cation (SLM) facility in St ...

NEW STING IN THE TAIL We have to  y this airplane to 2035-plus, so we are going to do all outstanding modi cations and then we ...

2021-22, we’re going to start ramping up between here and San Antonio, to close to 40 airplanes a year, and that’s when we’ll be ...

Since ‘9/11’ we’ve been at war. We’ve been overseas in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and in Syria, fl ying the airplane as required to d ...

Above: An artist’s impression of a Block III-standard aircraft complete with IRST and CFTs. Boeing Below left to right: The new ...

areas to reduce radar cross-section, such as the engine inlets. The Super Hornet has some stealthy features, although nothing li ...

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This image: RADM Michael T. Moran says the recent strike fi ghter shortfall has increased the risk of not being able to support ...

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O F THE 632 Grumman F-14 Tomcats that were built for the US Navy, no fewer than 144 were lost between December 30, 1970, and Mar ...

The Tomcat remained a challenge to fl y through to its retirement by the US Navy in October 2006 detected by General Electric th ...

deck of USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) in the Mediterranean Sea. ‘Following the crash, all 156 Tomcats in the navy inventory were t ...

S EPTEMBER 20, 1995, was a standard day aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) except for one noteworthy excep ...

not knowing that we would be using most of the gear to survive that day. At around 15.15hrs we arrived on the  ight deck and wa ...

to rendezvous from the left side. The Viking was holding overhead the ship in a continuous left-hand turn, waiting to pass the 3 ...

could see the faces of some of the crew. They were excited to be getting their own personal airshow. As the ship passed behind u ...

O N JANUARY 19, 1991, US Navy pilot LT William ‘TC’ Costen and navigator LT Charlie ‘Tuna’ Turner of VA-155 approached their tar ...