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Boeing sole air tanker bidder as competitors exit
WASHINGTON: Boeing is poised to win a 35-billion-dollar US Air Force aerial refueling tanker plane contract after rival partners Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS bowed out. Northrop Grumman said that it had decided not to bid to build the new planes because the US Air Force’s requirements for the KC-X tanker program, published last [...]
Boeing to Develop Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Aircraft
ST. LOUIS: The Boeing Company was awarded a $38 million contract April 27 to develop and test a nonlethal, high power microwave (HPM) airborne demonstrator for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Counter-electronics High power microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP). The CHAMP Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) program will be the first to demonstrate [...]
Boeing To Develop And Fly Phantom Ray UCAS
St. Louis MO: Boeing plans to develop and demonstrate an unmanned flying test bed for advanced air system technologies. The internally funded program, called Phantom Ray, will use the prototype vehicle that Boeing originally developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/U.S. Air Force/U.S. Navy Joint-Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) program. The Phantom Ray [...]
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Moves to Flight Line for Testing
EVERETT, Wash: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner that will fly later this quarter has moved to the flight line. Fuel testing — the first in the next phase of extensive checks the airplane must undergo — will begin in the next few days. “We are making great progress, and moving ever-closer to first flight,” said Scott [...]
Missile Defense Interceptor Shoots Down Target
Huntsville AL: Boeing built part of the Arrow II interceptor that successfully shot down a ballistic missile target April 7 in a test of Israel’s national missile defense system. The operationally realistic test, conducted in Israel by the Israel Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, used an interceptor co-produced by Boeing and [...]
Boeing P-8A Poseidon Successfully Completes 1st Flight
SEATTLE: Boeing P-8A Poseidon test aircraft T-1 successfully completed its first flight April 25, taking off from Renton Field at 10:43 a.m. and touching down at Boeing Field in Seattle at 2:14 p.m. The P-8A performed a series of flight checks, reached a maximum altitude of 25,000 feet, and landed after three hours, 31 minutes [...]
Airborne Laser Team Begins Weapon System Flight Tests
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE: The Boeing Company, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have begun Airborne Laser (ABL) flight tests with the entire weapon system integrated aboard the ABL aircraft. ABL, a heavily modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft, completed its functional check flight April 21 from Edwards Air Force Base with the beam control/fire [...]
Boeing to Develop Free Electron Laser for US Navy
WEST HILLS, Calif.: The Boeing Company has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract valued at up to $163 million, with an initial task order of $6.9 million, to develop the Free Electron Laser (FEL) weapon system, which will transform naval warfare in the next decade by providing an ultra-precise, speed-of-light capability and unlimited magazine depth [...]
US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division Fields CH-47F Chinook Helicopter
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa: Boeing today announced that a fourth U.S. Army unit has fielded the CH-47F Chinook helicopter. Company B, 3rd General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, is based at Fort Bragg, N.C. “Fielding the new CH-47F Chinook continues the proud heritage of the unit’s aviation history,” said Capt. [...]
