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Piaggio has launched into the unmanned air vehicle market with the unveiling of its P.1HH Hammerhead, a pilot-less intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance variant of its distinctive Avanti II twin-pusher business turboprop. The Italian manufacturer designed and built the demonstrator on show at Paris in less than a year and says the aircraft, which incorporates the Selex ES SkyISTAR mission management system, has already completed low-speed ...

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Some big orders so far in the first two days of the show but, other than the rather nebulous commitment for 20 A 380s ( Airbus would obviously have preferred to see something solid from a new high profile airline customer like Cathay or one of the Americans) nothing surprising. We have previously talked about full order books limiting the chance of big new discounted deals for the low cost carriers. Boeing would have had to go very low indeed to ...

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The entire state of Wyoming has been released in 50 cm pixel photo-real detail for FSX. Richard Benedikz - 18-Jun-2013 MegaSceneryEarth Wyoming is over 97,813 square miles in size and features 97 airports. It provides stunning mountain vistas amongst some of its most well known and not so well known features including Yellowstone National Park, The Grand Tetons, Gannet Peak and its massive glacier and the Wyoming Range. The package includes 4 VFR ...

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Daniele Romiti, Chief Executive Officer, AgustaWestland said We are proud to achieve this major milestone on schedule. The start of full scale production brings us closer to the first AW189 delivery later this year and the when customers who already operate the AW139 will start benefitting from the Family advantage. The AW189 flight test programme has amassed over 1500 flight hours so far, utilising six aircraft - four prototypes and two pre-prod ...

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P S wrote in message Does anyone know where in China the Fourteenth Air Force was based during ww11. I suppose this depends on the definition of 14th Air Force, do you mean the Headquarters or the airfields in use? The HQ, Locations. Kunming, China, 10 Mar 1943; Peishiyi, China, 7 Aug-15 Dec 1945; Major combat units (groups), 308th (B-24), 51st (P-40 later P-51), 444th, 462nd, 468th (all three B-29), 33rd (P-40), 81st (P-47), 40th (B-29), 311th ( ...

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I have read several stories about men from the Far East being coscripted in to the Japanese Army, captured by the USSR, conscripted into the Red Army, captured by the Germans, conscripted into the German Army, and finally being captured by the Allied on D-Day. Can anyone confrim that these stories are true? If so, who exactly were these people? Where did the come from? How many of them were there?

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Rotorhub Paris Air Show 2013 Bell Helicopter launches new light helicopter project 18 June 2013 - 15 03 by Tony Skinner in Paris Bell Helicopter is confident that its new Short Light Single (SLS) helicopter can recapture a segment of the market it conceded with the termination of Bell 206 production in 2010. At the Paris Air Show on 17 June, the company announced plans to develop a new, . Subscribe to get the full article and a whole lot more fro ...

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Blue Sky Scenery has released the area around Spanish Fork-Springville (U77) in Utah. Richard Benedikz - 18-Jun-2013 Bluesky Scenery Spanish Fork was first settled by Mormon pioneers in 1851. Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route ...

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The package allows you to fly challenging approaches to the 10 most dangerous airports in the world. Richard Benedikz - 18-Jun-2013 In this mission pack, you will have to pilot different aircraft and face difficult landings on short runways, with low visibility, rain, heavy crosswinds and structures in front of the runway. All 10 fun missions are fun but challenging. In the Advanced Missions, you will use the Co-Pilot's instructions to land and t ...

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Airbus has awarded Turkish Aerospace Industries ( TAI ) a contract to supply composite rudders for the A330-200 and A330-300 long-range commercial jets. Under the terms of the deal, signed Monday at the Paris Air Show, TAI (Hall 4 E75) will serve as a single-source supplier through the life of the A330. Plans call for rudder manufacture to take place at TAI s Ankara Kazan facilities in Turkey, from where the company already supplies Airbus A350 X ...