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June 23, 2008
Restraint System Improves Aircrew Safety
A new restraint system based on the same technology that brings speeding roller coasters to a smooth stop may soon help save lives and reduce military mobile aircrew injuries. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) engineers teamed with Wolf Technical Services...
June 23, 2008
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks May 02, 2008 Vancouver, WA Yakovlev Yak 52 N62813 A/c was substantially damaged when impacted terrain while maneuvering near Green Mountain Airport (WA67). Two fatalities Witness stated a/c made high-speed...
June 16, 2008
Cutting Aircraft Development Costs while Improving Safety
A distressing fact for aeronautical engineers: scale model airplanes don't fly anything like their full-sized counterparts. And that makes aircraft design a lot more difficult. "Right now, for developing a new airplane, there's only so much you can do...
June 2, 2008
Nimrod Fleet Should be Grounded
The entire Royal Air Force Nimrod surveillance aircraft fleet should be grounded, a coroner has urged in concluding his inquest into the deaths of 14 servicemen in a 2006 crash in Afghanistan, according to British press accounts. In his summing up, coroner...
June 2, 2008
BASH Program Takes to Wing
Bird strikes are a major concern for the USAF and Manas Air Base has turned to a different version of the fighting falcon to keep the airfield clear. One of the aviator's best friends on Manas AB, Kyrgystan, is a luger falcon named Mustang, the fist of its...
June 2, 2008
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks May 05, 2008 New Lisbon, WI Piper PA-25-235 N4352Y A/c destroyed when impacted trees and terrain while maneuvering during aerial application flight. One fatality Witness said a/c made several low altitude...
May 26, 2008
Aircraft: Heal Thyself
A new technique that mimics healing processes found in nature could enable damaged aircraft to mend themselves automatically, even during a flight. As well as the obvious air safety benefits, this breakthrough could make it possible to design lighter...
May 26, 2008
S&T Trends
RNP Test in China A China Eastern Airlines (CEA) Next-Generation 737-700 completed a flight into China's Lijiang Airport on May 13 to validate the capability and benefits of Required Navigation Performance (RNP), which uses global-positioning satellites and...
May 26, 2008
Accidents and Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks May 05, 2008 Butte City, CA Grumman G-164 N703Y A/c experienced a total loss of engine power seconds after taking off from a grass airstrip. No injuries Examination of engine revealed no evidence of pre-impact...
May 19, 2008
A (New) Wing and a Prayer
New wings are the answer to U.S. Air Force concerns on the aging A-10 Thunderbolt II, a tactical aircraft flying since 1975. Air Force officials awarded a contract to Boeing last year for 242 new A-10 wings constructed and delivered to depots for installment...
May 19, 2008
Precision Landing System Ready for Takeoff
After many years of technology refinement, the USAF's Electronic Systems Center-led land-based increment of the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) is poised to progress to the system development and demonstration (SDD) phase. The system uses...
May 19, 2008
Iraqi Bird Study to Help Reduce Aircraft Mishaps
One of the U.S. Air Force's greatest airpower adversaries doesn't wear the uniform of another country; it wears feathers. Both deadly and expensive, aircraft accidents and mishaps caused by collisions with birds have cost the service approximately $35 million...
May 19, 2008
Integrating UAS into European Airspace
Eurocontrol has initiated a major program intended to ensure the safe and efficient integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the European Air Traffic Management (ATM) Network. Eurocontrol is providing the European lead on the ATM aspects of UAS...
May 12, 2008
T-38C Talon Training Stands Down
Air Education and Training Command (AETC) officials temporarily suspended all flights of T-38C Talon trainer aircraft following a fatal crash at Sheppard AFB, TX on May 1, the second fatal crash in two weeks involving T-38 Talon trainers On April 23, two...
May 12, 2008
F-15 Accident: Rudders Failed
Pacific Air Forces officials have released the results of their investigation of the F-15D Eagle fighter crash that occurred approximately 60 miles off of Oahu Feb. 1. The accident investigation board determined that "there was no clear and convincing...
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