Will Emerge From Bournmouth Facility As An RAF Voyager
The first of 12 Airbus Military A330-200 aircraft has been
received by Cobham at its Bournemouth facility for conversion into
"Voyager," the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) for the
Royal Air Force. This variant of the A330 Multi Role Tanker
Transport (MRTT) is the first to be converted by Cobham in the
United Kingdom.
Ruggedized Fuel Cell Power Source Enables Persistent
Surveillance On Small-Footprint, Low-Cost System
Small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) provide valuable
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities
for units at the infantry company level and below, allowing
over-the-next-hill imagery or short-term monitoring of convoys as
an example. State-of-the-art battery power for these small UASs,
however, has limited the duration of missions to about two
hours.
CO Says Forward-Deployed Assault Ship Is "A Link In A Long
Chain" That Contributes To Success Of Naval Aviation
The crew of the forward deployed amphibious assault ship USS
Essex (LHD 2) celebrated the Centennial of Naval Aviation during a
ceremony held on the ship's mess decks Sept. 2. 2011 marks the
100th anniversary of the first aircraft to land on a U.S. Navy ship
at sea, and Navy commands throughout the year are celebrating the
milestone with observances, flight shows and ceremonies.
Just weeks after the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter got back to
flight testing, a new design problem has cropped up. An aluminum
beam in the wing structure has been found to be "defective," an
issue that could lower the aircraft's wing life from 8,000 hours,
or about 25 operational years, to just 1,200 hours, which equates
to about five years of flying.
The Air Force ended nearly 95 years of service, research and
training at Brooks AFB in Brooks City, TX Aug. 31, 2011, when the
last unit inactivated in a ceremony. The commander of the Air Force
Materiel Command and commander of the 311th Air Base Group at
Brooks led the ceremony in front of more than 200 civic leaders,
elected officials and former and current employees of the base.
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