Rep. Allen West Sends Letter To Air Force Secretary
May 26, 2011 ###
By Stephen Trimble May 17, 2011 10:50 AM The AT-6 may be an “American plane”, but Hawker Beechcraft is not truly an American company. Hawker, of course, is a brand invented in the UK, which migrated across the Atlantic in the early 1980s when British Aerospace sold its business jet division to Beechcraft. That business…
By Ed Timperlake May 16, 2011 There is a saying that can be recognized by all USAF, USN and USMC combat aviators that after engaging in a practice Air Combat Maneuvering (ACM) engagement — whomever ever first gets to the briefing board wins. In other words, who ever first frames the debrief makes sure it favors…
by Mike Haridopolos President, Florida State Senate May 7, 2011 “Today, I want to call your attention to another important opportunity for Florida: Assembling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s Light Air Support (LAS) mission in Afghanistan. Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corporation and Brazil’s Embraer are jointly bidding on this contract, and if they win, they…
By James H. Flatley, IV 05/04/11 “Over the past four years much has been written, debated and proposed about the need for a light attack turboprop aircraft that’s ideally suited for irregular warfare in Afghanistan. Yet here we are four years later without a deployable solution.” Read the whole story here. ###