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AF Officials Work On Trimmed-Down Instrument Landing System

The Goal Is To Develop A Deployable ILS For Use In Theater

Officials from the 853rd Electronic Systems Group at Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts are working to improve the transportability and deployability of instrument landing systems with an upcoming request for proposal for a deployable instrument landing system, or D-ILS.

Navy Women In Aviation Show Diversity Is Rising

Hundreds Attend Convention In Orlando, FL Last Month

Anyone who attended this year's 21st Annual Women in Aviation International (WAI) Conference in Orlando, FL knows that Navy women were out in force for the convention.

Tunisia Orders Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules Airlifters

Becomes The 12th Country To Buy The Airlifter

The government of Tunisia has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin for the purchase of two C-130J Super Hercules airlifters with an initial three years of logistics support. Tunisia's new C130Js, scheduled to be delivered in 2013 and 2014, will be the longer fuselage or "stretched" variant of the C-130J.

Technology Gives Apache Block III More Lift, Capability, Landing Ability

Pilots Fly Further, Carry More Ordnance, Land Better Under Difficult Conditions

The U.S. Army is leveraging cutting-edge technologies from its Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to give the Block III Apache aircraft increased power, lift, maneuverability and hard-landing ability, service officials said.

Boeing Begins 737 AEW&C Maintenance Training For RAAF

Support For Australia's AEW&C "Wedgetail" Program

Boeing has gotten started on the first maintenance training program conducted under the five-year In-Service Support (ISS) contract for Project Wedgetail, Australia's 737 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program.

Two Indian Navy Pilots Killed During Airshow

Aircraft Went Down On First Day Of India Aviation 2010

Two Indian Navy pilots were killed Wednesday when the HJT-16 Kiran Mk2 trainer they were flying in a airshow demonstration went down, impacting a building in a residential area near Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad.