Posted by Java Joe on April 17, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A new report from the Government Accountability Office shows just how bad the military fighter pilot shortage has become.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags artificial intelligence, aviation accidents, blended retirement system, F-35 software strategy, Jeff Boleng, Paul Ryan, pilot retention, Syrian air strikes, T-45C Goshawk, USS Helena, wildlife strikes
Posted by Java Joe on April 16, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Three F-35 Lightning IIs have completed the most comprehensive flight test program in aviation history, Lockheed Martin officials said last week.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags A-10 Thunderbolt II, aviation accidents, Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, F-35, M80 Stiletto, military budget, missile strikes, submarine force ratings, Syrian air strikes, TESS, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Triton, UAS
Posted by Java Joe on June 28, 2017 · Leave a Comment
NASA says the launch of the Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket is now scheduled for early Thursday morning, June 29, with a launch window between 4:15 and 4:45 am. This will be the 11th time the launch has been attempted at the Wallops Flight Facility. Southern Maryland skies are in the launch’s viewing range.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags ballistic missile intercept, chemical weapons, defense budget, GPS III satellite, IIAP World Services Inc., John E. Burdette Memorial Award, Lauren Boden, NASA launch, Scorpion, sounding rocket, Syrian air strikes, Thomas Bowman, USS Fitzgerald, Wallops Flight Facility
Posted by Java Joe on April 11, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Navy has extended the grounding of all of its T-45 training jets indefinitely after a group of instructor pilots refused to fly the aircraft. The service’s engineers need to figure out what’s causing a spike in dangerous physical symptoms in pilots brought on by a drop in oxygen in the cockpit.
Posted by Java Joe on April 10, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Destroyers Ross and Porter were already operating in the Eastern Mediterranean on Thursday when the call was made to strike at the Assad regime. The two destroyers involved in the 59-Tomahawk missile strike on a Syrian airfield were there, loaded with Tomahawks “ready to do what they do.”
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Adm. John Richardson, budget battle, Capt. Brett “Banya” Pierson, Carrier Air Wing 5, MQ-4C Triton, Naval Test Wing Atlantic, Sean Stackley, Syrian air strikes, T-45C Goshawk, Tomahawk cruise missile, VADM Paul Grosklags