MS&T’s Europe Editor, Dim Jones, visited the Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS) at MoD Boscombe Down to track the progress of the members of the Class of 2019; by the time of this instalment, they were approaching the halfway mark, undertaking more complex and demanding tasks.
Motor gliders that trained RAF Air Cadets are to get a new lease of life and bring joy to people with disabilities and injured ex-military personnel. The MOD’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation has sold 63 decommissioned Vigilant T1 aircraft to Aerobility. The charity provides flying experiences to...
Air Education and Training Command (AETC) is working to build a faster and smarter Air Force in partnership with multiple major commands to develop a competency-based virtual and augmented-reality (VR/AR) training capability for the aircraft maintenance and career enlisted aviator communities. A completed 3D scan of a F-16C Fighting...
The U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently awarded The DVI Group with a Phase I contract. The contract allows DVI to focus on developing next generation aviation training content for the Air Force. Founder and CEO of The DVI Group, Matthew Lopes. Image credit: DVI...
Image credit: Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has completed the first pre-production Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) training pod for the U.S. Navy. This comes just months after the completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) with the Navy...
For the first time, two teams tied to as winners of the Spark Tank 2020 competition at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida, in February. The Low Cost Threat Emitter Replication, submitted by 1st Lt. Daniel A. Treece, Air Education and Training Command, Luke Air...
The RAF has renamed a training facility at RAF Shawbury in honour of The Duke of Cambridge. The Duke completed advanced flying training at the Defence Helicopter Flying School, receiving an aircrew flying badge in January 2010. The Duke of Cambridge Building is part of the UK Military Flying Training...
Rheinmetall has signed a contract to modernize flight simulators for the German Army Aviation Corps’ NH90 helicopters. For Rheinmetall, the order, signed in December, is worth a figure in the lower double-digit euro million range. Awarded as part of the Helicopter Flight Training Systems (HFTS), the contract encompasses operation,...
RAF Personnel, under the command of No.8 RAF Force Protection Wing, have arrived at Hindan Air Force base to take part in Exercise INDRADHANUSH. The exercise will see the Force Protection Force (RAF Police and RAF Regiment) working alongside Garud Regiment and Indian Air Force Police and Security personnel. INDRADHANUSH is part of an...
Columbus Air Force Base’s Innovation Flight has continued its efforts to integrate virtual reality (VR) technology into pilot training, creating pilots for the U.S. Air Force faster. The Innovation Flight’s ambitions are to cultivate skills such as situational awareness, risk management, decision making and to augment the training student...