U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kevin Robinson, 22nd Airlift Squadron loadmaster evaluator, deploys a C-5M Super Galaxy emergency escape slide at Travis Air Force Base, California. All image credits: U.S. Air Force photo by Heide Couch. A team from Sketchbox Inc. took six hours to obtain multiple 3D scans of...
Uzbekistan have had a Thales flight simulator for Ecureuil helicopters (AS350/H125) installed at Karshi Air Force Base. The simulator will provide emergency procedures training and initial training for pilots of the Uzbek Air Force. The Karshi base will be home to the country's first training academy. Senior officials from...
Capt. Justin Stewart, a USAARL pilot, gives Master Sgt. Kenneth Carey, USAARL's Chief Medical Laboratory Non-Commissioned Officer, a CAPT-E-VCS tutorial. All image credits: Scott Childress. The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) introduced a Blackhawk helicopter simulator at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Fort Rucker, Alabama. The Cockpit Academics Procedural...
Britain's Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) have updated on the ongoing building work at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk that will be home to 2 US Air Force F35 squadrons. RAF Lakenheath is due to welcome the first of the new aircraft in late 2021. It will house the latest training...
Elbit Systems of America will supply a number of products – including cockpit displays, datalinks and embedded training capabilities – to Boeing's T-X advanced pilot training aircraft for the United States Air Force. Elbit Systems of America will provide a number of key components including: large area displays, engine...
Boeing has won a $45 million firm-fixed-price delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement to procure P-8A aircrew training system production concurrency upgrades for the US Navy and the government of Australia, according to an announcement by the US Department of Defense. Work for the contract will...
The Air Force’s all-new advanced trainer aircraft, the T-X, has officially been named the T-7A Red Hawk. Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan made the announcement during his speech at the 2019 Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor. Donovan was joined on...
Sponsored Content Less than four weeks to go until SMi’s 8th Annual Military Flight Training Conference in London this October The highly anticipated Military Flight Training Conference, taking place from the 9th-10th October 2019, in London, will allow delegates to take part in front-line discussions with a view to...
The Air Education and Training Command Women’s Fly-In event in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area Sept. 18-21 will bring rated officers and career enlisted aviators together to network, mentor and inspire others to “Fly Like a Girl.” As part of the Fly-In, Air Force women pilots and static display aircraft...
The European Defence Agency will open a Multinational Helicopter Training Centre (MHTC) in Sintra, Portugal by the end of 2022. The EDA and 18 of its member states will now develop the technical arrangement (TA) for the MHTC. The concept development phase concluded in January and has gained ministerial...