Boeing says a 747-8 Intercontinental launched the model’s Performance Improvement Package (PIP) flight test program with a mission flown on 20 May 2013. Equipped with what Boeing is calling enhanced GE engines, the PIP is intended to improve the fuel efficiency of the 747-8.
Read More
Air India Flight AI 403 was forced to make an unscheduled landing at Bhopal after the pilot in command was locked out of the cockpit. The incident apparently took place 13 May 2013 on flight scheduled from Delhi to Bangalore.
Read More
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin says their F-35B Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) Lightning II test aircraft completed the first-ever Vertical Takeoff (VTO) of the F-35B variant on 10 May 2013. The location was Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, according to the statement issued by Lockheed.
Read More
Lockheed Martin says the latest in a series of F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) high angle of attack (AOA) testing is complete. According to Lockheed, the testing accomplished high AOA beyond both the positive and negative maximum command limits, including intentionally putting the aircraft out of control in several configurations.
Read More
The US Navy has completed its first ever aircraft carrier-based catapult launch of an unmanned aircraft, an X-47B, from the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), on 14 May 2013.
AeroSpaceNews.com presents the next installment in our series of Hot Pics of amazing airplanes, helicopters, spacecraft and other things that fly. This HD video episode features the awesome X-47B UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAS Unmanned Aerial System or because this one “could” be armed with weapons, Unmanned Combat Air System… to many, it is just a drone. It begins with a sequence documenting that historic first X-47B launch from the aircraft carrier and continues with more footage, including air-to-air, from the UCAS-D program to date.
Read More
You may have heard of this video – perhaps on the evening news. Now former International Space Station (ISS) Commander Chris Hadfield, well known as a music lover, singer and musician, to say nothing of his prolific Tweeting and sharing of photos shot aboard the ISS, recorded his own interpretation of David Bowie’s iconic Space Oddity song in the form of a music video, in space, entirely aboard the ISS, before handing over command of the space outpost and returning to earth.
Read More
Welcome to AeroSpaceNews.com, the world's first aerospace news website and a pioneer of internet news.
The editor is a former staff photojournalist at industry leader Flight International Magazine.
He also served as staff Aerospace Expert at KFWB Newsradio, contributed multiple cover stories to Aviation Week and Space Technology, along with on-camera and behind the scenes expertise to programs on the Military Channel, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel.