Editor's NoteB-52H Upgrades Face Supply Challenges BARKSDALE AFB, La.–Announced by Boeing in 2009 and first fielded in 2014, the company’s Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade for the B-52H has been to replace old displays and communications on…
MilitaryUSAF Says Wind Tunnel Testing Validated F130 Engine Inlet Redesign, As B-52 CERP Looks to Enter Development This Summer The U.S. Air Force said that wind tunnel testing that finished in early June validated inlet redesign of the Rolls-Royce F130 engine for the U.S. Air Force’s Commercial Engine Replacement Program (CERP)…
MilitaryNAVAIR Head Warns First MQ-25 Flight This Year Still Requires “A Ton Of Work” The commander of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) this month warned a lot of work is still required with the new MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft in order to conduct a…
Business & GABoeing Commercial Airplanes Workers On Strike After Union Members Reject Contract Offer - Sept. 13 More than 30,000 Boeing employees began a strike on Sept. 13 at the company’s Commercial Airplanes’ facilities in the Pacific Northwest after union members voted overwhelmingly last Thursday to reject the company’s…
Embedded AvionicsBAE Systems to upgrade flight control computers for F-15EX and F/A-18E/F fighters - Press Release, Aug 20 BAE Systems has been selected by Boeing to upgrade the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control computers (FCC) for the F-15EX Eagle II and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. The FCCs feature common core…
AI & AutonomyBoeing Expanding Effort To Autonomously Inspect Aircraft - July 28 JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Using small third-party drones for high-resolution imaging and its own artificial intelligence-based software algorithms, Boeing is expanding an effort to speed the inspection of military aircraft exteriors and increase readiness while…
MilitaryConstruction Begins on New Boeing MQ-28 Production Facility in Queensland - March 26 BRISBANE, March 26, 2024 — Construction will begin on Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] new production facility in Toowoomba, Queensland, to support the manufacture of Australia’s first military combat aircraft designed and developed in…
Editor's NoteBoeing, BAE Systems to build airborne electronic warfare (EW) to help F-15 operate against modern EW threats - Military & Aerospace Electronics, March 5 Officials at Air Force Life Cycle Management Center are asking Boeing to install F-15 Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) on F-15E aircraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported. BAE Systems’ Electronics…
CommercialUnited Expands Fleet with Orders for 110 More Aircraft Boeing and United Airlines announced on Tuesday that the airline is exercising options to order fifty 787-9 Dreamliners. Also on Tuesday, Airbus shared that United placed an order for 60 more A321neo…
Electrification and SustainabilityBoeing's Sustainability Approach: A Closer Look Jim Hileman, vice president and chief engineer of Sustainability & Future Mobility at Boeing, talked about the company's approach to sustainability in a recent interview with Avionics International. This is Part 2…