SpaceX Falcon 1 launch scrubbed - again
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | space.com

It was a structural issue, not high winds, which scrubbed the private launch firm SpaceX’s second attempt to send its first Falcon 1 rocket into orbit Monday.

SpaceX Again Poised for Falcon 1 Rocket Debut
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | space.com

The private launch firm SpaceX is once again ready for its spaceflight debut as its first Falcon 1 rocket sits poised to launch later today.

USAF hopes to extend Raptor line
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | flightinternational.com

The renamed Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22A Raptor formally entered service on 15 December, even as US Air Force officials worked behind the scenes to secure a proposal to extend the production line by two years to 2012 and add four aircraft to the procurement total.

USAF Proposes a C/B-17
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | strategypage.com

The U.S. Air Force is now thinking about turning its C-17 transport into a bomber. In the last few years, the JDAM (satellite guided smart bomb) has made aerial bombing far more effective. Because of the satellite guidance (GPS), aircraft can drop the bomb from any altitude, and still get the same a...

P & W Shipping First Engine For Testing On New F-35 JSF
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | courant.com

MIDDLETOWN -- Boxed and wrapped like a precious Christmas gift, the first jet engine that will fly the Pentagon's new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is scheduled to be shipped by Pratt & Whitney this week for installation in a test plane.

Space center to be launch site for record-setting flight attempt
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | orlando.bizjournals.com

Kennedy Space Center will be the takeoff site for an attempt to set the record for the longest flight of an aircraft or balloon.

Experts: 2005 QDR Fails To Deliver Transformation
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | aviationweek.com

A "series of process defects," Bush administration "incompetence" and the high-level naivete of implementing a top-down military restructuring have resulted in a Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) that has "failed" to transform the Defense Department but has successfully shielded most major defense we...

New Pentagon agency oversees unmanned planes
Posted on: Mon Dec 19th, 2005 | alertnet.org

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming integral to U.S. warfare, but their use for border patrol, homeland security and even weather monitoring will also increase, the general recently appointed to oversee these new aircraft told Reuters.