The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team recently conducted a
successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the F136 engine
being developed for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft.
True or false: the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle has never
flown a mission over US soil. For the moment, the answer is
"true"... but that's likely to change by the end of the day Monday,
when the first Global Hawk is scheduled to land at Beale Air Force
Base outside Sacramento, CA.
There's yet another wrinkle in the continuing tensions in the
Mideast... as hundreds of Palestinians crowded around the homes of
two suspected militants Sunday. Those human shields forced Israel
to call off planned air strikes to go after the militants.
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