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Tri-engine Leonardo AW101 helicopter completes OEI high-altitude testing at famed Colorado airport.
The podded system is aimed at the Luftwaffe’s requirement to outfit Eurofighter Typhoons for the electronic attack role.
Poland has selected GE's CT7-2E1 engines for its fleet order of Leonardo AW149 helicopters.
The primary flight trainer that produces pilots for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps has also passed five million flying hours.
Fact and fiction have combined to create a top-draw attraction, as Lockheed Martin’s hypersonic creation for the "Top Gun: Maverick" movie goes public.
Student naval aviators will now train in the Leonardo TH-73A Thrasher.
Six civilian-standard helicopters are being taken into service by the Marine Nationale in advance of the first deliveries of militarized H160Ms.
The latest Global to go to the U.S. Air Force, a 6000 modified for the BACN program, marks the first delivery under a June 2021 contract.
The order for 27 Airbus H125 helicopters will be used by the Brazilian air force and navy flight training programs.
The high-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft will operate on maritime surveillance duties alongside crewed P-8A Poseidons.