It’s more than 600 kilometres, as the Canadian Goose flies, from Moose Jaw to the nearest major cities of Winnipeg and Calgary, more than 2,500 km from Ottawa, making the vast open spaces of Saskatchewan and Alberta ideal for unhindered flight training. Beth Stevenson visited Moose Jaw.
The sixteenth annual Omega Close Air Support (CAS) Conference took place at the Reading Hilton, west of London, in November. Europe Editor Dim Jones joined the event.
In pursuit of its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) aspirations, the US Army will fund a Competitive Prototyping (CP) program aimed at designing, building and testing two aircraft by 2023. MS&T “flying editor” Dim Jones checked out Lockheed Martin’s progress.
In partnership with industry, the Department of Defense (DoD) Corrosion Policy and Oversight Office is unveiling two new courses for aerospace engineers and aircraft maintenance technicians who plan, design and maintain military aircraft. The first course, Aerospace Engineer Coating Application Training, is designed to familiarize engineers with corrosion mitigation,...
ACS Aviation has seen a significant increase in flight training enquiries and forecasts that over 200 future pilots will enroll on its Airline Pilot Transport Licence program over the next three years. The expansion of the business has resulted in an increase in the ACS workforce from 13 to...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the science and technology sectors could benefit from an additional £40 million to £45 million of external investment opportunities from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The organisation is seeking supply chain partners for a series of research projects across the defence...
Bert Buyle, CEO of Euramec and the Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries (SIATI) revealed plans for Euramec’s new Regional Sales and Technology Centre in India. The new centre is expected to open in 2020. Once open, the combined R&D and sales facility will include collaborative space for...
Air Vice-Marshal Aliyu Bello, director of training for the Nigerian Air Force, and other members of the Nigerian Air Force visited Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, in January to get a firsthand view of the Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training (SUPT) training program and check on a Nigerian student who...
ITEC, the international forum for the military simulation, training and education community, announced that the 2019 conference agenda has been finalised. With an overarching theme of “Interoperable by design: connecting people, technology and nations”, this year’s conference will bring together thought leaders from across research, industry and government to...
L3 Technologies has been awarded a $120 million contract to continue training U.S. Air Force B-2 pilots, maintainers and weapons-loading personnel using its B-2 Aircrew Training System. L3 has been the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and provider of the training system since 1984. As the OEM with two previous...