March 29, 2024

Naval Aircraft Crashes Grew in 2014

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Last year, 2014, the Navy reached its high of 14 Class A flight mishaps. The numbers had been dropping since 2008, the last time there were 14 mishaps in a single year. It also occurred in 2006. Rates changed when ground and unmanned aircraft mishaps were included, adding three Class A mishaps to 2014 and seven mishaps to 2013, reports PilotOnline.

No sooner does the news break that Edward Snowden’s disclosures showed  China stole the designs for US fighter jets, than China denies it, Reuter reports

The potentially huge market in India for unmanned vehicles is again creating calls for the US government to ease tight restrictions on foreign sales, reports Reuters.

A Customs and Border Protection Blackhawk helicopter fired warning shots at a fleeing panga boat whose operators refused to stop for the US Coast Guard off the southern California coast and were throwing bales of suspected marijuana overboard. After the shots the panga stopped, reports the L.A. Times.

Water sampling, oil leaks, and invasive species are some of the latest targets and tasks for drones, reports MIT Technology Review.

Political wrangling in Canada includes debate questioning whether the capabilities and high price of the F-35 aren’t beyond the nation’s need. Canada has delayed its order for the Lockheed jets, and Boeing’s Super Hornet is still in contention, reports Defense Industry Daily.

“It’s amazing,” a Politco report finds and a Senate staffer confirms, that the poor cyber-security habits on Capital Hill haven’t created institutional security problems or at least attracted “mischievous hackers.”

Google references spaced-based satellite communications in its comment on its $1 billion investment in Space X. The funds are headed into “continued innovation in the areas of space transport, resusability, and satellite manufacturing,” SpaceX is quoted in PC World.
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