First aerial refueling of the X-47B, the Navy’s carrier-launched, unmanned aircraft, will occur in the next few weeks at NAS Patuxent River, reports Defense Tech.
Aviation Week reports on the status on retrofits to eliminate problems that led to an engine fire last year in the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter. Pratt-Whitney plans to fix the entire fleet by early 2016.
President Obama’s private schedule was infiltrated by way of the Russian hack of the State Department a few months ago, reports CNN. Yesterday’s brief power outage in Southern Maryland coincided with a brief outage at the US Capitol, which Pepco reported as neither criminal nor terrorist related. Continue reading …