Most new aircraft experience issues of this sort, an inevitable consequence of a test program becoming a production aircraft and the sheer complexity of modern airliner design.
On the plus side, a sale could help Morgan Stanley offset potentially steep losses it stands to take in its aircraft leasing program.
That means removing the EADS CASA C-295 from consideration in the JCA program and removing funding for purchase of the aircraft by the Coast Guard Deepwater program.
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In 1995, Saddam launched a new program using a converted training aircraft code-named L29.
Final deliveries of the F-22 were completed in the second quarter with a total of 187 aircraft built under the program.
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The advantage of a card or fractional program is that you fly in aircraft that are consistently outfitted with similarly trained crews.
He will be succeeded in the F-35 job by Lorraine Martin, a similarly cerebral problem solver who has served as F-35 deputy program manager and previously headed other Lockheed aircraft efforts.
Through its NetJets program, Executive Jet pioneered "fractional" aircraft ownership, in which two or more firms share a private plane.
The Navy will lose one of its twelve aircraft carriers , while its shipbuilding program will be kept at a level that will reduce the service to fewer than 270 ships - a number clearly inadequate to meet the Nation's worldwide missions.
The aircraft is one of five aircraft acquired from the Air Force Global Hawk program.
He spent 25 years flying aircraft for the U.S. Navy and is now program director for American Express.
First unveiled in 2005, EU-ETS requires aircraft operators flying within EU airspace to participate in a carbon credit trading program.
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The BAMS-D program has been developing tactics and doctrine for the employment of high-altitude unmanned patrol aircraft since November 2006.
The State Department has turned down an offer by the government of El Salvador to renew a joint drug interdiction program that allows the U.S. Navy to base P-3 maritime search aircraft at Comalpa International airport in El Salvador.
Special attention was given to charges found in recent, sharply critical reports by "60 Minutes" and the General Accounting Office. (1) Each contention concerning such issues as the uncertainties involved in "low observable" technologies, the B-2 test program, the pace of production, the susceptibility to countermeasures and the maintainability of stealthy aircraft was addressed in turn by the participants.
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Unfortunately, the same questions might well be posed today about another aerospace technology in which the United States currently enjoys a decisive competitive advantage -- thanks to a farsighted and ambitious Defense Department program and the congressional support it has long received: the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor aircraft.
Although the Pentagon and the three services that will receive the new aircraft have stated repeatedly their full commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F-35 program, its fate is by no means assured, particularly if defense budgets decline further than currently planned.
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