Pilots Had Filed Suit In Federal Court Against The Restriction
Citing higher fuel and other operating costs, the U.S. Army recently put a policy in place that civilian instructor pilots at its Fort Rucker helicopter training facility in southeast AL, could weigh no more than 250 pounds ... and some of the instructors cried "foul."
First Aircraft Produced Under Second Low-Rate Initial Production Contract
The seventh production P-8A Poseidon was handed over to the U.S. Navy by Boeing on March 29,marking the first delivery from the second low-rate initial production contract awarded in November 2011. The maritime patrol aircraft departed Boeing Field in Seattle for Naval Air Station Jacksonville, FL, where it joined six P-8As currently being used to train Navy crews.
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