The F/A-18E Super Hornet blown off the deck of USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) aircraft carrier on Jul. 8, 2022 was recovered 9,500 feet under the Mediterranean Sea, US 6th Fleet announced on Aug. 8, 2022. According to USNI News, the single-seat Super Hornet assigned to Carrier Air Wing 1 was knocked off the deck of the carrier in what the Navy at the time called “unexpected heavy weather” during...
“The F-22 Raptor deployment to Poland adds significant capabilities to support NATO’s collective defens… – The Aviation Geek Club
US Air Force Gen. James Hecker, US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa, and NATO Allied Air Command commander, visited the 32nd Tactical Air Base in Łask, Poland, to welcome 12 US Air Force F-22 Raptors forward deploying from the 90th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 5. According to a USAF news release, as part of NATO’s plan to bolster its collective defense...
Boeing has started Integration of EPAWSS on USAF F-15E Strike Eagle fighter bombers – The Aviation Geek Club
The first two US Air Force (USAF) F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft recently began Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) modification at Boeing. Forty-three F-15Es will receive EPAWSS, which is also the electronic warfare system that will equip the F-15EX Eagle II. Developed, produced and integrated by the strong partnership between Boeing and BAE Systems, EPAWSS represents a...
Safe, Reliable, and Uninhabited: in a first-ever Flight Demonstration a Black Hawk Helicopter flies with No… – The Aviation Geek Club
Sitting on the runway in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, one of Sikorsky’s pilots in an S-70 BLACK HAWK helicopter flips the optionally piloted cockpit switch from two to zero, exits the aircraft and walks across the runway. According to a Lockheed Martin news release, moments later, the Model A BLACK HAWK aircraft, identifiable by DARPA’s logo and tail number N60-OPV, completes a pre-flight check list...
SOCOM selects L3Harris AT-802U Sky Warden for Armed Overwatch program – The Aviation Geek Club
The Pentagon announced on Aug. 1, 2022 that the L3Harris and Air Tractor team with its AT-802U Sky Warden has won the Armed Overwatch program of the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). According to an L3Harris press release, the program includes delivery of up to 75 manned, fixed wing aircraft, with an initial program contract award of $170 million. The fleet of modern multi-mission aircraft...
The Original Tomcat: Did you know the Grumman F7F Tigercat was originally to be named “Tomcat?” – The Aviation Geek Club
Once upon a time, Grumman and the US Navy developed a fighter aircraft which could have been a world beater, a twin engine, and sometimes two-crewed machine, which possessed a heavy and versatile armament of guns, and was capable of hauling the heaviest ordnance available to carrier based aircraft. This machine was a development of an original joint service twin engine design, one which did not...
Sikorsky and DARPA fly Black Hawk helicopter with a tablet from take-off to obstacle avoidance in a first-o… – The Aviation Geek Club
Sikorsky and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are working to dramatically improve flight safety and operations so humans and machines can work together more seamlessly in the field. Sikorsky is leading the way toward a future where aircraft can be operated with two, one or zero pilots at all times of the day or night and in a variety of complex scenarios, including...
Once an F-101 pilot tried to race against an SR-71. He gave up when the Blackbird’s RSO asked him how fas… – The Aviation Geek Club
Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3-strategic reconnaissance aircraft remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. From 80,000 feet, it could survey 100,000 square miles of Earth’s surface per hour. So it comes as no surprise if, thanks to its astonishing flight characteristics, the aircraft has set numerous speed and altitude records...
USS Tripoli amphibious assault ship completes Lightning Carrier Concept demo with 20 F-35B Joint Strike Fig… – The Aviation Geek Club
Taken on Apr. 7, 2022 the photos in this post feature USS Tripoli (LHA-7), an American-class amphibious assault ship, returning to port at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, California. The Tripoli supported the launch of 20 F-35B Lightning II jets from Marine Fighter Attack Squadrons 211 and 225, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, both based at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Ariz...
Northrop Grumman celebrates the 15-year anniversary of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye “digital quarterback” … – The Aviation Geek Club
On Aug. 3, 2022 Northrop Grumman celebrated the 15-year anniversary of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye’s first flight that occurred on this day in 2007. The continuous improvements in early airborne radars by 1956 led to the concept of an airborne early warning and command and control aircraft. The first aircraft to perform this mission was the Grumman E-1 Tracer (a variant of the S-2 Tracker anti...
