Bell Helicopter gets $2.2 Billion Army contract

Posted at: Mon Aug 1st, 2005

(Fort Worth, TX., July 29, 2005)--Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc., (NYSE: TXT) was awarded a $2.2 billion contract by the United States Army to build its next generation Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter, or ARH. The ARH will replace the Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior Helicopter also produced by ...

e2v on cloud nine after Eurofighter contract win

Posted at: Mon Aug 1st, 2005

e2v technologies in the East of England has won a £4.3 million order to supply travelling wave tubes (TWTs) for the new Euro-fighter Typhoon Defensive Aids Sub System (DASS). DASS is designed to enhance aircraft survivability with an advanced suite of self defence sensors and counte...

NASAs New CEV Launcher to Maximize Use of Space Shuttle Components

Posted at: Mon Aug 1st, 2005

The decision on what new launch vehicles NASA plans to use in the coming decades is rapidly coming into focus. In some ways these launchers will be new - yet they will also look very familiar using hardware and concepts that have long and well-established flight histories.

Astronauts begin second spacewalk

Posted at: Mon Aug 1st, 2005

Discovery astronauts Steve Robinson and Soichi Noguchi have begun the second spacewalk of the shuttle mission, as NASA officials on Earth debate what to do about two pieces of gap-filling material protruding from the craft's underside.