Air TaxiUSAF Pilots Conduct First-Ever Crewed eVTOL Flight with BETA Aircraft On March 9, 2022, two U.S. Air Force pilots became the first Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with military airworthiness approval—the ALIA, an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, developed…
MilitaryU.S. Air Force Makes New AFWERX Investment in Boom Supersonic Airliner Research Boom Supersonic, the Denver, Colorado-based aerospace company developing a supersonic airliner capable of flying at Mach 1.7, announced a new contract award from the U.S. Air Force on Tuesday valued at up…
Air TaxiAgility Prime Awards New Contract to Software Company Tangram Flex Tangram Flex, an Ohio software company, has been awarded a new Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program that will be focusing on advancing the safety…
MilitaryUS Air Force Test Center Looks for Visual Display Systems for F-35A JSE The U.S. Air Force Test Center (AFTC) under Air Force Materiel Command wants industry input on Visual Display Systems (VDSs) for the Air Force Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) for the service’s F-35A…
MilitaryAPG-83 AESA Radars to Improve F-16 Air-to-Air, Air-to-Ground Performance The Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 scalable agile beam radar (SABR) for U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters by Lockheed Martin is to provide 5th generation radar features akin to those of the F-22 and…
Air TaxiSabrewing Unveils Prototype ‘Rhaegal-A’ Unmanned VTOL Cargo Aircraft At the conclusion of the Air Force’s Agility Prime event on revolutionary VTOL aircraft, California-based Sabrewing Aircraft revealed their ‘Rhaegal-A’ prototype, an unmanned heavy-lift cargo aircraft that the company says will be…
Air TaxiThrough Agility Prime, Air Force Commits to Commercial Success of Air Taxis During the Agility Prime virtual kickoff event, speakers from across NASA, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration underlined the military and economic importance of U.S.…
MilitaryAir Force Requests More Than $50 Million for C-5 Avionics-Related Upgrades The United States Air Force's fiscal 2021 budget requests more than $50 million in avionics-related upgrades for the service's fleet of 52 Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy transports, including 36 in the…
MilitaryUS Air Force Officials Expect KC-46 Remote Vision System Fix by 2023 The Air Force expects to receive a solution to its biggest Category-1 deficiency on the KC-46A Pegasus tanker by 2023, one year behind previous estimates, the service’s senior military official told the…
MilitaryUS Air Force Scoping Market Availability for New F-15 Radar Sources The Air Force’s F-15 program office is considering awarding a new contract to produce, modernize and sustain the APG-82 radar system and any future variants, according to a recent solicitation. A “Sources…