The US Air Force (USAF) is pondering replacing its Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning and control aircraft and the commander of the Pacific Air Forces wants the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail.
GKN Aerospace to Manufacture Composite Parts for UK’s MQ-9B Drones Our Bureau 1667
MQ-9B SkyGuardian
GKN Aerospace will manufacture advanced composite V-tails for GA-ASI’s new MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) under an agreement the company signed with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI).
SkyGuardian is the baseline system of the UK Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Protector RG Mk1 and has also been selected by Belgian Defence and the Australian Defence Force.
GKN Aerospace will produce the parts for 10 years.
GA-ASI and GKN Aerospace had previously entered into a pre-production contract, under which GA-ASI provided the required engineering technical data and tooling, and GKN Aerospace developed their manufacturing processes and produced demonstrator parts. Under this latest agreement, GKN Aerospace will begin full rate production of the V-tails from the Cowes facility to support MQ-9B aircraft production.
By Murdo Morrison2021-02-25T16:51:00+00:00
For admirers of the Queen of the Skies, it is a sombre sight. Nine former British Airways Boeing 747-400s – former flagships of the flag carrier and still resplendent in their liveries – line up on the hard standing of a rural airfield in the west of England, all but one destined to be broken into bits.
Cotswold Airport, at Kemble in Gloucestershire, is where old airliners come to die, and operator Air Salvage International (ASI) is one of a few aircraft dismantling and recycling specialists in Europe.
Source: BillyPix
British Airways 747-400s lined up at Kemble
The lighter side of Flight International
Moon monikers
NASA famously named its Space Shuttle test orbiter ‘Enterprise’ in honour of the television show Star Trek, so surely there’s an opportunity for a similar homage via the Artemis programme to return to the Moon?
Fans of the science-fiction series
Space: 1999 will recall the exploits of castaways on a lunar outpost after the Moon is blasted out of orbit by a far-side nuclear explosion – although best you don’t think too hard about the Newtonian physics of that – which featured rocket craft called ‘Eagles’, echoing the Eagle lander that took Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon’s surface.
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