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Skye Aviation Purchases 15 eFlyer 800 Aircraft
The eFlyer 800 program is aiming to provide a regional all-electric airplane with lower operating costs and no CO2 emissions. (Bye Aerospace)
Skye Aviation, an aircraft leasing company, has purchased 15 of Bye Aerospace’s eFlyer 800 aircraft, the company announced on July 29.
“Skye Aviation is the first all-electric aircraft leasing company in the world” George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace, said in a statement. “We are honored by their selection of the eFlyer 800 to be the foundation for their fleet, and we applaud their forward-reaching strategy. Momentum for electric aviation continues to grow at an incredible pace.”
The eFlyer 800 program is aiming to provide a regional all-electric airplane with lower operating costs and no CO2 emissions, according to the release.
“Skye Aviation is thrilled to be the world’s first all-electric aircraft leasing firm and to be able to exclusively offer Bye Aerospace’s eFlyer family of eCTOL aircraft,” Carol Johnson with Skye Aviation, said in a statement. “Skye fully supports sustainable, safe aviation leasing solutions for our customers while at the same time slashing eCTOL operating costs, aircraft noise, maintenance and supply requirements efforts. We embrace innovation that offers our customers far less capital-intensive solutions for training, passenger, air cargo, private, business, and military operations. In this sense, we all win.”
søndag 1. august 2021
Hypersonisk - Amerikanerne får det ikke til - Defenceworld.net
Second test of U.S.A.F.'s Hypersonic Missile Unsucessful
- Our Bureau
- 11:47 AM, July 30, 2021
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AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon
The second test of the
U.S. Air Force's AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic
missile is deemed a failure.
The Air Force tested the
missile from a B-52H Stratofortress strategic bomber in Point Mugu training
ground near California on July 28. The Edwards-based 419th Flight Test Squadron
and the Global Power Bomber Combined Test Force were involved in the testing.
In a statement, the
service said it did not meet all flight objectives.
Objectives for the test
included demonstrating the safe release of the booster test vehicle from the B
52H and assessing booster performance. An Edwards AFB B-52 released the ARRW
test missile, dubbed Booster Test Vehicle 1b or BTV-1b, over Point Mugu Sea
Range.
The missile cleanly
separated from the aircraft and successfully demonstrated the full release
sequence including GPS acquisition, umbilical disconnect and power transfer
from the aircraft to the missile. The missile also demonstrated fin operation
and de-confliction maneuvers which ensures a safe operation for the aircrew.
Following the safe
separation maneuvers, the rocket motor did not ignite.
"The ARRW team
continues to progress through the rapid prototyping effort with a steadfast
commitment to the well-being of Airmen and equipment, striking a balance
between prudent risk and rapid advancement of the program," the Air Force
said.
USAF B-52 bomber
“Developing first-of-its-kind
missiles is difficult business and this why we test,” said Brig. Gen. Heath
Collins, the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Weapons. “This is a
critical capability for our Air Force and we have the very best team working to
figure out what happened, fix it and move out to deliver ARRW to our
warfighters as quickly as possible.”
A booster flight test of
ARRW took place in April 2021at Point Mugu Sea Range but did not launch
successfully. However a follow-up test in May for the ARRW's avionics, sensors
and communications systems, was successful, using a B-52 based system, on a
flight to Alaska from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
The missile is being
developed by Lockheed Martin under a $ 480 million contract with the Pentagon
and, according to the US military, could be put into service as early as
2022.The AGM-183A hypersonic missile has a speed of Mach 6.5 to Mach 8. The
missiles of this type are planned primarily to equip strategic bombers B-52H,
each of which will be able to carry four AGM-183A.
Flygende simulator ved USAF Test Pilot School - The Drive med VISTA Video
Converted F-16D - Now X-62A
JOSEPH TREVITHICK View Joseph Trevithick's
Articles
The U.S. Air Force has
redesignated its NF-16D Variable-stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft,
or VISTA, as the X-62A. This new X-plane nomenclature, something typically applied to purely experimental aircraft and other aerospace vehicles, is meant to better
reflect this aircraft's current role as a multi-purpose test platform as the
service prepares to make new modifications to it so that it can support the
Skyborg program. Skyborg is focused on developing a suite of artificial
intelligence-driven technologies and associated systems that will together form
a "computer brain" able to fly "loyal wingman" type drones and potentially
migrate to other designs, including fully autonomous unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs.
The public affairs office for the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base in California announced the designation change on Friday, July 30th. The Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards, in cooperation with Calspan, operates the VISTA jet. This highly modified, one-of-a-kind F-16D Viper fighter is also now part of a newly created Research Division within the Test Pilot School.USAF
"The VISTA is currently in the midst of an
upgrade program which will fully replace the VISTA Simulation System
(VSS)," according to the Air Force. "The upgrade program will also
add a new system called the System for Autonomous Control of Simulation (SACS)
to support autonomy testing for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Skyborg
program."
“The redesignation reflects the research done on
the aircraft over the past almost 30 years, as well as acknowledges the major upgrade
program that is ongoing to support future USAF autonomy testing,” Dr. Chris
Cotting, the Test Pilot School's Director of Research, said in a statement.
SKYBORG AI COMPUTER
"BRAIN" SUCCESSFULLY FLEW A GENERAL ATOMICS AVENGER DRONEBy Brett
TingleyPosted in THE WAR ZONE
KRATOS MAKO LOYAL WINGMAN DRONE
EMERGES WITH MAJOR MODIFICATIONS FOR SKYBORG TRIALSBy Thomas
Newdick and Tyler RogowayPosted in THE WAR ZONE
FIRST TEST FLIGHT OF SKYBORG'S
"COMPUTER BRAIN" FLOWN ON UTAP-22 LOYAL WINGMAN DRONEBy Joseph
TrevithickPosted in THE WAR ZONE
AI THAT BESTED AIR FORCE PILOT
IN “DIGITAL DOGFIGHTS” HEADED FOR L-39 JET TRAINERBy Thomas
NewdickPosted in THE WAR ZONE
THIS IS WHAT THE US AIR FORCE
WANTS YOU TO THINK AIR COMBAT WILL LOOK LIKE IN 2030By Joseph
TrevithickPosted in THE WAR ZONE
Calspan, in cooperation
with the original manufacturer of the F-16, General Dynamics, began devising
the VISTA conversion in the late 1980s, Initially, the
focus was on modifications to support work on multi-axis thrust
vectoring technology for the Israeli Air Force. The U.S. Air Force also
subsequently joined the project, with the Israelis then dropping out in 1992.
The converted F-16D flew that year in its new configuration for the first time.
Sjekk NF-16 VISTA Video her: https://youtu.be/dj8OJs6E3JM
Oshkosh Podcast - AW&ST
Podcast: Report From Oshkosh 2021, The Year's Biggest Air Show By Any Measure
Molly McMillin Michael Lavitt Lindsay Bjerregaard July 29, 2021Aerospace & Defence Roundup: July 29, 2021 - AW&ST
Sjekk overskriftene her: https://tinyurl.com/zuxttxce
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