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16-Apr-2021 Flying low, fast and expertly executing crisp, tight, quick maneuvers that only Sikorsky’s X2 Technology™ family of helicopters brings, the Sikorsky S-97 RAIDER® helicopter flew two demonstrations before Army officials and Soldiers at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama this week. The events offered a glimpse at Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company’s bid for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program, part of the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) effo...

Share this article Share this article HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Flying low, fast and expertly executing crisp, tight, quick maneuvers that only Sikorskys X2 Technology™ family of helicopters brings, the Sikorsky S-97 RAIDER® helicopter flew two demonstrations before Army officials and Soldiers at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama this week. The events offered a glimpse at Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin companys bid for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (F...

New rocket makes successful flight 1 2021-03-13 08:35:31China Daily Editor : Mo Honge ECNS App Download Left: A Long March 7A carrier rocket is ignited before blasting off its launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Friday. LIU JUN/FOR CHINA DAILY Right: The trajectory of the rocket lights up the sky over Hainan island early on Friday morning. The rocket is tasked with sending satellites into high-altitude orbits. LIU YANG/FOR CHINA ...

Chinas Long March 7A rocket puts satellite in orbit By ZHAO LEI | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-03-12 02:47 Share CLOSE Chinas Long March 7A carrier rocket makes its first successful flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on March 12 early morning. [PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY] The newest type in Chinas carrier rocket family – Long March 7A – made its first successful flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Cent...

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Designers at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology have started developing the first reusable model in the nations Long March carrier rocket family, said a senior rocket scientist. Jiang Jie, an expert at the academy and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said on Wednesday that research and development of the reusable variant of the Long March 8 rocket was proceeding well and designers plan to conduct the first test to verify...

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Designers at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology have started developing the first reusable model in the nations Long March carrier rocket family, said a senior rocket scientist. Jiang Jie, an expert at the academy and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said on Wednesday that research and development of the reusable variant of the Long March 8 rocket was proceeding well and designers plan to conduct the first test to verify key vertical landing te...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Pentagon planners are looking to replace Sikorsky’s Black Hawk, middle-aged and slower than the next generation of helicopters [Hartford Courant] The Black Hawk, the workhorse in wartime and in natural disasters, is facing a challenge familiar to those in middle age as a new and faster helicopter swoops in to take its place. Its manufacturer, Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., is working with Boeing to develop a utility helicopter that flies at do...

Book excerpt: In The Tejas Story, a retired air marshal chronicles his experiences of test flying the LCA jets The story that comes to life through his book is that of his team of pilots and of the LCA programme itself, how it was commissioned, the challenges in the development phase and the pressure of realising the dream of domestically developing a fighter plane. Philip Rajkumar January 29, 20...

Long March 8 rocket makes maiden flight By ZHAO LEI in Wenchang, Hainan | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-23 07:05 A crowd has turned out to watch the launch of Chinas new medium-lift carrier rocket Long March 8 in Wenchang, Hainan province, on Tuesday. On its maiden flight, the rocket put five satellites into orbit. LIU YANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Five days after China concluded its historic 23-day Change 5 lunar mission, Chinese space engineers made a new achieveme...

Long March 8 rocket lifts 5 satellites in debut flight 1 The Long March 8 rocket waits for its debut flight. （Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn） The Long March 8, the latest in Chinas Long March launch vehicle fleet, conducted its debut flight on Tuesday afternoon at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South Chinas island province of Hainan. The 50.3-meter rocket ignited its engines at 12:37 pm at a coastal launch pad, thundering skyward into thick layers of cloud. After a...