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Historic
BOAC Comet: First Transatlantic commercial jet flight
“We have got the taps right open”. So read one of the radio messages passed from British Overseas Airways Corporation DH Comet 4 G-APDB to a sister aircraft as they made the first commercial jet flight across the Atlantic, between New York and London, 60 years ago — and injected new hope into the troubled Comet story
ANOTHER ARDMORE ‘MOSSIE’ ROLLED OUT
The Lewis Air Legends Mosquito FBVI, PZ474, after roll-out at...
Military
Germany orders five P-8A Poseidons
The German Federal Ministry of Defence signed a letter of offer and acceptance on June 30 for the purchase of five Boeing P-8A Poseidons through the US government’s Foreign Military Sales programme
Marshall returns first overhauled KC-130J to USMC
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has completed and redelivered the first USMC Lockheed Martin KC-130J Hercules tactical tanker-transport to undergo a planned maintenance interval at its maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Cambridge, UK
USAF approves F-22 FTU relocation to Langley-Eustis
The USAF has signed a Record of Decision, approving plans for the service’s Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor Formal Training Unit to be relocated to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, from Tyndall AFB, Florida
Commercial
Manufacturing and Certification Boosts for A220
Construction work has begun on Airbus’new A220 Manufacturing...
Airbus and Boeing Smash Delivery Records
Annual delivery records were broken by the two biggest commercial...