British Go With European Proposal

How much worse could things get for the beleaguered Boeing? In one word: devastating. Over the last couple of years, the aerospace giant has taken a beating from its arch rival, Airbus, in the commercial aircraft market. Now, the European-conglomerate is giving Boeing another devastating blow to its pocketbook, as its wins a huge deal for a fleet of British air tankers. The United Kingdom announced European Aerospace Defence & Space (EADS) as the winner of a $24 billion contract to supply air-refueling tankers to the British Royal Air Force. On Monday, Britain's Ministry of Defense named Airbus's parent company the winner in a written statement to Parliament and in meetings with the competing consortium led by Boeing and EA

Simulink(R) Generated Code Powers New Simulation

The MathWorks and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company announced on Monday that their collaborative work has led to the successful completion of the first simulated test flight of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) using Simulink(R) generated code. Lockheed Martin's Chief Test Pilot, Jon Beesley, conducted an unrestricted evaluation flight in the F-35 real-time simulator lasting over two hours, performing a wide range of maneuvers. He exercised the sophisticated flight control laws designed and generated by Lockheed Martin's JSF Flight Control Application Software team using MATLAB(R), Simulink, Stateflow(R), and Real-Time Workshop(R) Embedded Coder from The MathWorks. The F-35 is considered the single most important new

Over 6000 Flight Hours in Hawkeye

Robert Jackson, a test pilot at test squadron VX-20, was recently honored by NAVAIR’s E-2/C-2 Program office and the Northrop-Grumman Corporation for having achieved 6,000 flight hours in the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft. Jackson, an employee of Advanced Information Engineering Services, is only the second pilot to have reached this milestone since the E-2C was put into service in 1973. In recognition of Jackson’s achievement a unique wood and bronze plaque, with a small relief sculpture of an E-2C, was presented to him by E-2/C-2 Program Manager (PMA231) Captain Robert LaBelle and Mr. Julius Longshore of Northrop Grumman. Jackson logged his record number of hours over the past twenty plus years flying active duty missions