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Leonardo: Deep Dive Into The Main Programs Of One Of The Largest Defense Contractors In The World Leonardo: Deep Dive Into The Main Programs Of One Of The Largest Defense Contractors In The World M-346, C-27J NG, Captor-E and HH-101. (Images: Leonardo, Edit: The Aviationist). Leonardo is one of the world’s top ten players in Aerospace, Defense and Security. Let’s have a look at the status of its most important projects in the Aeronautics, Helicopters, Space and Electronics businesses. Named...

Till today, aircraft systems that could make military aviation more accommodating for women and encourage more of them to stay in service are still designed around men. Photos: AFP As a helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004, now-Senator Tammy Duckworth stopped drinking water hours before she climbed into the cockpit of her Army UH-60 Black Hawk for combat missions. Even in Iraq’s heat, she’d purposefully dehydrate herself because there was not a safe way for her to use the restroom in her one-p...

It is difficult to believe that herds of Reindeer once roamed the Irish countryside and were native breeding members of our mammal fauna. That was at the end of the last ice age, of course, some 12,000 years ago.  The Reindeer were accompanied by Arctic Foxes, Norwegian Lemmings, and Giant Irish Deer. As the ice melted and the climate improved they all died out and became extinct and were replaced by newcomers like the Irish Hare, Irish Stoat, Brown Bear, Grey Wolf, and possibly Red Deer. It i...

McClatchy exclusively reported this summer that of the military’s 48,000 pilots, only 3,300 were women and only 72 were Black. There are a multitude of reasons, including that the services did not open up flying roles to women until in the 1970s and did not allow women to fly in combat until the 1990s. But even 25 years later, aircraft systems that could make military aviation more accommodating for women and encourage more of them to stay in service are still designed around men. That’s st...

By TARA COPP | MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU Published: December 23, 2020 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — As a helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004, now-Sen. Tammy Duckworth stopped drinking water hours before she climbed into the cockpit of her Army UH-60 Black Hawk for combat missions. Even in Iraq’s heat, she’d purposefully dehydrate herself because there was not a safe way for her to use the restroom in her one-piece, zip-up flight suit. “I would have to take off my side arm. I w...

David A. Lieb and Camille Fassett Associated Press Ray Bellia had a good business before the coronavirus pandemic. He topped $4 million in annual sales from his New Hampshire store that specialized in protective gear for police.  Then he got a call from a buyer with the state of Massachusetts asking if he had anything that could protect people from COVID-19. As it happened, he did. He went on to sell the state 300,000 disposable masks for 97 cents each. "From that point on, its been just insan...

AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File Ray Bellia had a good business before the coronavirus pandemic. He topped $4 million in annual sales from his New Hampshire store that specialized in protective gear for police. Then he got a call from a buyer with the state of Massachusetts asking if he had anything that could protect people from COVID-19. As it happened, he did. He went on to sell the state 300,000 disposable masks for 97 cents each. “From that point on, it’s been just insanity,” Bellia sa...

Ohio spent almost $100 million in scramble for protective gear in the spring David A. Lieb and Camille Fassett, Associated Press © Charles Krupa/Associated Press Ray Bellia holds up personal protective masks and gloves, used by medical and law enforcement professionals, in the warehouse of his Body Armor Outlet store, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Salem, N.H. Bellias store rapidly evolved into one of the nations 20 largest suppliers of personal protective equipment to states th...

Ray Bellia holds up personal protective masks and gloves, used by medical and law enforcement professionals, in the warehouse of his Body Armor Outlet store, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Salem, N.H. Bellias store rapidly evolved into one of the nations 20 largest suppliers of personal protective equipment to states this past spring, according to a nationwide analysis of state purchasing data by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) By ...

Updated Dec 21, 2020 Tight Supplies For Coronavirus Protective Gear Cost States Billions The AP tallied more than $7 billion in purchases by states this spring for personal protective equipment, or PPE, and high-demand medical devices such as ventilators and infrared thermometers. David A. Lieb and Camille Fassett Ray Bellia had a good business before the coronavirus pandemic. He topped $4 million in annual sales from his New Hampshire store that specialized in protective gear for police. Then ...