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 by Allen Cone Washington (UPI) Jul 15, 2019
Boeing has been awarded a $96.8 million contract to provide the United Arab Emirates support for its Apache helicopters and Longbow crew trainers. The deal, funded through foreign military sales, will include aircraft integrated logistics support and product assurance, the Defense Department announced Friday. Work under the contract will be performed at the company's plant in Mesa, Ariz., with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2024. Fiscal 2010 foreign military sales funds in the full amount were obligated at the time of the award. Last October, Boeing was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide UAE with 17 Apache AH-64E aircraft for $242 million. The deal was for the remanufacture of eight helicopters, as well as nine new-build aircraft. That contract modification was part of a deal first awarded in March 2016 with a potential $3.5 billion total value. The Apache is the world's most advanced multi-role combat helicopter, according to Boeing. The company has delivered more than 2,200 Apaches around the world since the aircraft entered production. The first AH-64A was delivered to the U.S. Army in January 1984. The latest variant is the BAH-64E Apache, a four-blade rotary-wing aircraft that is typically armed with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. Deliveries began in 2011 to the United States and foreign customers. In 2017, Boeing signed a five-year, $3.4 billion contract for the first multi-year agreement for the Apache "E" variant. The Army was to receive 244 remanufactured Apaches and 24 new ones will go to one undisclosed international customer.
DLR tests flexible and actively controlled wing designs Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 Future aircraft need to be lighter and hence more fuel-efficient. For this reason, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in Gottingen has now tested two wing designs as part of an EU project. These types of wings have hitherto been impossible to manufacture. Alongside more fuel-efficient engines and higher-aspect-ratio wings, weight reduction is regarded as the most important way to reduce fuel consumption in the air transport sector. In the case of aircraft ... read more
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