News of March 18, 2008
Boeing: Study Projects That As Oil Prices Climb, 767 Tanker Most Cost Efficient
Posted at: Tue Mar 18th, 2008
ST. LOUIS, March 17, 2008 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] reports that the U.S. Air Force likely would pay up to $30 billion more in fuel bills over 40 years to operate a fleet of 179 Airbus A330-200 aerial refueling tankers, compared to a similar number of tankers based ...
CENTAF now AFCENT with redesignation
Posted at: Tue Mar 18th, 2008
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AFPN) -- On January 1, 1983, United States Central Command Air Forces was activated as the air component of the United States Central Command. Twenty-five years later, in a ceremony here March 3, 2008, it took on a new name, United States Air Forces Central, and an enhance...
Dyess to conduct Air Force's first supersonic flight with synthetic fue
Posted at: Tue Mar 18th, 2008
DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- A Dyess B-1 Bomber is scheduled to be the Air Force's first aircraft to fly at supersonic speed on March 19 using a 50/50 blend of synthetic and petroleum fuel.
Australia to stick with Super Hornet buy
Posted at: Tue Mar 18th, 2008
The new Australian government has confirmed the purchase of 24 Boeing F/A-18F Block II Super Hornet fighters.
Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has described the Opposition Leader's $6 billion acquisition of the fighter planes as rushed, ...
Boeing Flight-Tests 2-Pound Imaging Radar Aboard ScanEagle UAV
Posted at: Tue Mar 18th, 2008
ST. LOUIS, March 18, 2008 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], in partnership with ImSAR and Insitu Inc., has successfully flight-tested NanoSAR, the world's smallest Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), aboard the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft (UA).
