Camelina, grown and harvested for the Air Force by Sustainable Oils LLC, is an inedible, second-generation plant source for biofuels. This event will mark the first use of an alternative fuel blend by an air demonstration team.Chemical Weekly Group...
U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team Perform At Aero India 23 Air Show 00:30 Blue Angels fighter planes flying in formations during Chicago Air and Water Show 00:07 US Air Force pilot flying past aircraft carrier in F-16 flight simulator ...
The Air Force’s ambitious second demonstration of its network-everything effort linked sensors, satellites, and a big experimental projectile to blow up a simulated cruise missile. But the star of the show, service officials said, was the data collecting and transferring that went on behind the...
Maj. Stephen Del Bagno of Valencia, Calif., the pilot of the F-16 fighter jet that crashed outside Las Vegas during a training flight Wednesday, flew for the elite Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s premier flight demonstration team. He had accumulated more than 3,500 flying hours in 30 diffe...
HGU-55/E used by the USAF flight demonstration team Thunderbirds. The HGU-55/E is identical to the standard HGU-55 except that a protective visor assembly replaces the bungee visor. Its protective visor housing allows easy movement of the impact-resistant polycarbonate lens and locks the lens ...
Operations Command wings partnered in a total force initiative to conduct the first live-fire demonstration in the European theater of Rapid Dragon, a long-range palletized munitions system, in the U.S. European Command's area of responsibility. (Tech. Sgt. Brigette Waltermire/Air N...
The new award to Lockheed Martin is another win for the company in the field of space nuclear power. In July, NASA and the U.S. military chose the aerospace giant to develop and launch a spacecraft totest nuclear thermal propulsion in space. The project, known as DRACO ("Demonstration Ro...
The Para-Commandos arethe US Special Operations Command's premier aerial parachute demonstration team. ... The Para-Commandos are comprised of active duty Special Operators, such as Army Special Forces, Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, Air Force Combat Controllers and Marine Raiders. ...
SL-AMRAAM is set to gradually replace the Avenger air defence system in the US Army. Raytheon led the team in developing SL-AMRAAM, with Boeing being responsible for developing the SL-AMRAAM integrated fire control station. The team also includes Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace of Norway. ...
Northrop Grumman launch vehicles vice-president Rich Straka said: “This Pegasus launch was a clear demonstration of our team’s ability to provide rapid and responsive operational needs. “Our team was able to execute the design, integration and testing of the TacRL-2 launch vehicle in less th...