Global Hawk operations reach new high

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

5/15/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Battlefield awareness has reached new levels with Global Hawk production-model aircraft flying in the U.S. Central Command Air Forces theater. Reaching a breakthrough point in April, the Global Hawk team has maximized the aircraft’s sorties,...

Global Hawk Completes Wet Runway Test

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., May 15, 2006 - The Global Vigilance Combined Test Force's 452nd Flight Test Squadron achieved an important milestone by completing wet runway taxi testing on the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle May 3. This was the first ever wet runway testing performed on an unma...

Alternate fuel-powered B-52 to fly in September

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

5/15/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- This year, the Air Force will test fly a B-52 Stratofortress that is powered, in part, by fuel derived from natural gas. The Air Force Research Laboratory's propulsion directorate, a part of Air Force Materiel Command, is providing technical assistanc...

CENTAF releases combined airpower summary for May 12 to 13

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

5/15/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for May 12 to 13. May 13 In Iraq, Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons provided close-air support to coalition troops under small arms and indirect m...

Space prize confidential

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

Earlier this month NASA announced its first multimillion-dollar prize competition, the Lunar Lander Analog Challenge, in cooperation with the X Prize Foundation. Robin Snelson goes beyond the highlights of the announcement to see which companies plan to compete and the issues they have already encou...

US airpower in the Pacific region is set to increase its punch

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

The US Air Force is surging ahead with plans to revitalize its bases on Guam from which to project power into the skies over the western Pacific and the islands and continent of Asia. Bombers are already stationed regularly at Anderson Air Force Base on rotation from the US, as are ae...

LynxOS to Power F-35 JSF Panoramic Cockpit Display System

Posted at: Mon May 15th, 2006

SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/15/2006 -- LynuxWorks Inc. today announced that L-3 Communications Display Systems has chosen its LynxOS-178 Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) to power a portion of the Panoramic Cockpit Display (PCD) subsystem for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JS...