Morning Coffee 7-25-11
An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 makes its first carrier takeoff aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. (US Navy photo)
A robust blend of news from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, NAVAIR, the Pentagon and beyond:
- Northrup gets $794 million to deliver six more Advanced Hawkeys, and Lockheed gets $38 million more for F-35B spare parts.
- JSF production could fall short of plan?
- Overview of Advanced Hawkeye program.
- F-35 sensors tested in Alaska. (subscription required)
- Fighter squad CO censured for allowing call sign slur.
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell formally repealed.
- Pax River’s Test Pilot School supplied 85 astronauts to NASA.
