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Hit list already includes the KC-10 and KC-135.
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| Which Aircraft Will Congress Let The U.S. Air Force Retire? | Jen DiMascio
In a long-running drama, the U.S. Air Force and Congress have been at odds over which aircraft to retire and which ones to keep. Though the Biden administration has yet to release its budget, the Air Force’s hit list already includes the KC-10 and KC-135 tankers as well as the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV. |
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| ON-DEMAND WEBINAR | | Are Regional Aircraft Poised To Seize The Day? | | The bids are in for Europe’s largest fighter procurement in a decade, and all five contenders remain in the race. Which aircraft do you think will win the bid for Finland's fighter contest? Look through the contenders and cast your vote. |
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| | | 95 YEARS AGO IN AVIATION WEEK | Our May 24, 1926 edition featured a blow-by-blow account of the first flight over the North Pole by Navy Lt. Commander Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett. The duo made the historic flight on May 9 in a Fokker aircraft, taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway and landing back there 15 hr. 30 min. later. “Undoubtedly, one of the greatest features of the entire flight, apart from the skill and endurance exhibited by Commander Byrd and Pilot Bennett, is the extreme reliability of the Wright Whirlwind engines, which ran without a hitch,” the magazine reported. But the story was not one of Aviation Week’s legendary scoops: the article was based on an account of the flight from Byrd published in The New York Times. And the discovery of Byrd’s diary from the flight decades later, long after his death, has led skeptics to question whether Byrd and Bennett actually turned back more than 100 mi. short of the North Pole. However, Byrd’s historic flight over the South Pole in 1929 remains undisputed.
Read the original coverage and more in our archive at archive.aviationweek.com |
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| The Week In Technology | Graham Warwick
Wright Electric hits milestone; Pyrotechnic protection; Wisk teams with Blade; Beta flies for USAF; AKKA helps Aura Aero; Dufour funding. |
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| FEATURED EVENT | | | | Aviation Week Laureates | Celebrate the people, programs and technologies that are changing the face of aerospace and aviation.
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