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West Star has agreed to enter an agreement with Embraer to be given the opportunity to over haul their Phenom 100 and 300 landing gear. West star sees great opportunity for both parties with this pairing of services. Tom Hilboldt, the General Manager for West Star Aviation happily states that

Able Aerospace Services, a Textron Inc. company and Bell Helicopter have teamed up to allow for Able’s production to expand with minor adjustments. They have agreed to broaden their production in Calgary to hopefully expand their production in more of Canada. Both companies have come to an agreement to that will benefit both parties by trading.

A sudden demand for Rolls Royce Trent XWB engines has made them the foundation and upbringing in the manufacturers civil aerospace division. Rolls Royce has openly stated that its outlook prospects are going to be left “unchanged “in either direction for the remainder of the year 2016. Per Rolls Royce officials these latest events will not be affected by Rolls Royce’s downfall in their business aviation division. The Rolls Royce company has a plan to save and achieve the saving goals for their year beginning with making some changes in their senior management staff.   An approximate 400 additional jobs have been cut in the marine division and will be accompanied by a following 600 layoffs scheduled to be made in May. With such cuts and savings their goals are to save a total of £25m in its troubled marine division for the year 2016.

In recent news Scientist, have begun to create a drone that requires no cord for rechargeability but a magnetic source. This drone will be able to be charged while in the air and no need for it to be lowered at any time allowing it to be in air for longer periods of time. Its means of recharging would be to solely fly over a support vehicle that would dish out magnetic waves.

Boeing has allegedly received an opportunity to supply UPS with 14 more aircrafts to enlarge their requests of 747-8Fs aircrafts.  Despite Boeings rough start of soliciting this 747-8s model aircraft they have increased their back order from 15 to 29 total which will extended their production time to roughly another two years. The given time for the air crafts to be delivered is from the year 2017 through 2020. Adjusting routes to be reassigned that will enable capacity to the company’s busiest lanes.  Due to the latest planes being made Boeing will be conducting training and operation efficiencies to properly train their pilots to be able to operate the 747-8 fleet as well as the 747-400 fleet.

Richard Tompkins wrote an article for UPI talking about how BAE Systems has a new utility vehicle. This vehicle is called the Beowulf. It has considered a variation of the BvS10 combat vehicle which was the successor of the BV206s. The BV206s was used in the U.S. Army in Alaska as well at the Marine Corps.

Kris Osborn wrote an article for the National Interest talking about how Bell Helicopter’s new V-280 will change the game on the battlefield. This new V-280 will have a 360 degree sensor that has been influenced by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter also known as the Distributed Aperture Systems or DAS. The V0280 is considered to be a tiltrotor aircraft.

Wind turbines are on the rise of becoming more capable, accurate, and accessible. Shaeffler has produced a different types of bearing that comes in the shape of a sphere and it offers more of a foothold. Shaeffler is up to date in processing how to create the correct bearing for such a powerful object such as a wind turbine. Shaeffler has excelled in testing different bearings shaped as a sphere to get the perfect idea on how to create a strong spherical bearing made just for the wind turbine. Wear and tear has been a discussion of prevention, and has been revised due to the upgraded surfaces the bearings hold. An unsymmetrical design is what Shaeffler has chosen to be the most adequate design for this tough holding bearing.

The Aerospace Report that talks about how the US Marine Corps took delivery of their 50^th KC 130J. This KC 130J was assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station located in Miramar, California. Marine Corp is known to have the largest fleet of KC 130Js in the world.

The Raytheon Company lands an enormous commercial performance logistics contract with a thee profound RUAG Aerospace and Defense Switzerland Company. The PBL contract is written out to be over a course of 5 years which performs regular maintenance for their ALR-67(V)3, advanced digital radar warning receivers pertaining to the Swiss government.  Keeping these parts up to par are essential to F-18 pilots to be able to avoid possible hostile activities upon being targeted by the enemy.