Archive for July 2011
HONEYWELL GREEN JET FUEL POWERS FIRST-EVER TRANSATLANTIC BIOFUEL FLIGHT
July 21, 2011 | 
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Honeywell announced that its Green Jet Fuel has successfully powered the first transatlantic biofuel flight, which landed June 18, 2011, at Paris-Le Bourget Airport. The Honeywell-operated Gulfstream G450 became the first aircraft to fly from North America to Europe with a 50/50 blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel and petroleum-based jet fuel, powering one of the aircraft’s Rolls-Royce engines. It was also the first business jet to be powered by a biofuel. The biofuel was derived from camelina, a dedicated energy crop that does not compete in the food chain as it grows in rotation with wheat acreage and can also grow on marginal land. The flight departed Morristown, NJ, at 9 pm Friday and arrived in Paris about seven hours after takeoff. The jet closely followed the route taken by Charles Lindbergh’s famous first flight across the Atlantic. Based on lifecycle analyses, use of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel on the flight saved approximately 5.5 metric tons of net carbon dioxide emissions compared to the same flight powered by petroleum-based fuel. Fluctuating fuel prices combined with increased restrictions in aviation emissions regulations drive the demand for alternative sources of fuel. Honeywell Green Jet Fuel is a sustainable fuel option that meets all specifications for flight without any modifications to the aircraft or engine. Honeywell Green Jet Fuel proved that it meets all specifications for flight on military and commercial platforms without any modification to the …
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Irkut to supply 40 Su-30 fighters to Russian Air Force
Russia’s Irkut aircraft holding is in talks with the Defense Ministry on the delivery of up to 40 Sukhoi Su-30 multirole fighters to the Russian Air Force, the company said on Monday.
Published Jul 18, 2011.
Read more: Russian Information Agency Novosti
Supporting Expeditionary Forces: An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options
The goal of the Expeditionary Aerospace Force (EAF) concept is to rely on rapidly deployable, immediately employable, highly effective and flexible air and space packages to flexibly serve the strategic role that a permanent forward presence formerly played in deterring and quickly responding to aggression. This report assesses how well alternative logistics processes and organizational designs for meeting F-15 avionics maintenance demands across the spectrum of EAF operations support this concept. Alternatives range from the current decentralized organization associated with the policy of deploying intermediate-maintenance capabilities with the flying units to consolidated, non-deploying structures. The authors find that consolidating F-15 avionics intermediate maintenance and supporting operations from regional support bases would be more conducive to achieving the EAF goal than the current structure.
Supporting Expeditionary Forces: An Analysis of F-15 Avionics Options
