Jet lets fingers do the flying
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | home.hamptonroads.com

VIRGINIA BEACH - Five dozen men, many of them former pilots who have helped shape naval aviation for the past 50 years, were spellbound as they looked into the simulated cockpit of the Navy’s next-generation fighter jet.

A calculated risk in Pakistan
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | newsday.com

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- When CIA officers decided this month they had a fix on al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, they also judged there was no way to arrest him. The village where they believed Ayman al-Zawahri was planning a meeting of militants was deep in a rugged, Pashtun tribal homeland where thousands o...

L.B.'s 'Red Team' tries to rescue C-17
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | presstelegram.com

LONG BEACH - A city-led push to help create financial incentives for Boeing's C-17 production plant, and make the plane cheaper and more appealing to military buyers, takes its efforts to Sacramento today.

Taiwan's Air force plans to buy jets that need shorter runway
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | taipeitimes.com

The air force is preparing to build a new fighter that has vertical/short taking off and landing (VSTOL) capabilities.

More F-35 fighter work tipped
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | theaustralian.news.com.au

AUSTRALIAN industry can expect to win significantly more than the $100 million in work it has received so far from the massive F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project, a major contractor in the US program said yesterday.

Global Hawk operating in Persian Gulf
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | aimpoints.hq.af.mil

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE , Ohio - The first production model of a Global Hawk unmanned surveillance airplane has started flying missions from an undisclosed air base in the Persian Gulf region, the Aeronautical Systems Center announced Thursday.

NASA Developing Robotic Scouts For Lunar Exploration
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2006 | aviationweek.com

Pure science is taking a backseat to long-term exploration goals as NASA prepares to send robotic scouts to the Moon. Still, a rich scientific haul will be inevitable, even without the peer-review wrangling that normally picks targets for expensive space-science missions.