QUICKROUNDUP

existing Chinook partnership team consisting of AERO-Bildung GmbH, CAE GmbH, ESG Elektroniksystem-und Logistik-GmbH, Lufthansa Technik AG, Honeywell Aerospace and Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG.

BOEING

On April 12, 2022, the Boeing Company announced major programme deliveries across its commercial and defence operations for the first quarter of 2022. It has delivered 41 platforms for Defence & Space programmes which include AH-64 Apache (new and remanufactured), CH-47 (new and renewed). For commercial Airplane Programmes, it has delivered 95 platforms which include 86 of the Boeing 737.

IGRUA

The Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Udan Akademi (IGRUA), India’s largest flying academy, has completed the target of 19,000 flying hours in the financial year 2021-22. IGRUA completed a total of 19,110 flying hours in financial year 2021-22 which is highest since its establishment in 1986.

LOCKHEED MARTIN

Hercules history is made once again with the announcement on March 15 that Lockheed Martin recently delivered its 500th C-130J Super Hercules airlifter. This Super Hercules (Lockheed Martin aircraft #5934) is a C-130J-30 aircraft assigned to the 130th Airlift Wing. The 130th Airlift Wing is a long time C-130 operator that is currently modernising its legacy Hercules fleet with C-130Js.

Lockheed Martin announced on April 11, 2022 that its Skunk Works demonstrated the expanded endurance capabilities of a specially configured Lockheed Martin Stalker VXE unmanned aerial system through a world record endurance flight in the Group 2 (5 to <25-kg) category with a flight time of 39 hours, 17 minutes and 7 seconds on February 18, 2022.

The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency,

Air Force Research Lab, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne team successfully flight tested on April 5, 2022, the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). This historic flight reached speeds in excess of Mach 5, altitudes higher than 65,000 feet and furthers the understanding of operations in the high-speed flight regime.