Arriving like a beautiful gift before Christmas, the first of 20 Airbus A350-900 twinjets for Air India touched down in New Delhi on 23 December, and .
As Northrop upgrades the E-6B fleet, the company is also preparing to compete against Collins Aerospace to design and outfit the E-6B's next-gen replacement aircraft.
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Lawmakers Move to Protect Pilots from Ejection Seat Problems
Aircrew egress systems specialists hoist an F-16 Fighting Falcon canopy into the air June 26, 2017. (U.S. Air Force/Airman 1st Class Caleb Worpel)
29 Jul 2021
After an ejection seat malfunction led to a fighter pilot’s death last year, lawmakers plan to require the Air Force and the Navy to notify them when the live-saving seats are in need of repair.
The pilot’s death was linked to a spare parts shortage which meant the ejection seat was three years late in being serviced.
In its markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, the House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee wants to know how often the Air Force delays maintenance on aircraft with an ejection seat scheduled for repair, according to the bill text.
Raytheon Technologies Corp. is retrofitting Collins Aerospace-made oxygen-filling trucks for deployment to India, where COVID-19 cases are surging and medical oxygen is in dangerously short supply.
The aerospace and defense technology manufacturer said the trucks which are normally used to fill military aircraft and can transport approximately 270,000 liters of oxygen are expected to be delivered to the Indian Red Cross Society in New Delhi today. The vehicles will be used to feed hospital oxygen supply lines and to fill portable oxygen cylinders, company officials said.