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Quiet Technology Aerospace, or QTA for short, has recently received Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for the company’s 5th airframe specific, carbon fiber engine inlet replacement barrel. The supplemental type certificate provides a solution in terminating the plague like issue of engine inlet cowl, inner barrel corrosion that impacts the operators of the Challenger 300/350. The new QTA STC can be applied to the global fleet of six-hundred fifty-nine aircraft. Read more >>

Established in 1911 in Manitoba, Canada as an automotive engine repair shop. The company teamed up with Landmark Aviation in 2007 and create a corporate head office in the United State, even though the principal functions of the company are ongoing in Manitoba. Today, Standard Aero turned to be one of the world aerospace industry’s greatest individualistic maintenance, repair and overhaul providers. Read more >>

Bell Helicopter Company, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is getting closer each day to creating an unmanned V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor for the US Marine Corps. The project began in 2016 and has been completely funded from inside sources. Talk of the unmanned tiltrotor began when the US Marine Corp expressed a need for a long-range unmanned aircraft. Read more >>

Tata Steel Port Talbot has been producing and consonantly using their Trunnion Bearings since 1960 when they were first installed. Over the years deterioration and constant use has caused for one of the bearings to fail which brought the company to action to replace in good time. Read more >>

For years many the creation of electric powered vehicles has been in speculation. A collection of Large manufactures has taken the initiative to create an energy powered aircraft by the year 2020. The manufactures involved in the group are Airbus, Civil Aerospace - Rolls Royce, and Siemens. The group was formed in London, England at a press conference that was held at the Royal Aeronautical Society to create an electric powered aircraft by the name of the E-Fan X.  Read more >>

SilkAir, a branch of Singapore Airlines, secured a fifteen-year rate per flight arrangement with the joint venture group, CFM International.This arrangement allows SilkAir to be able to handle their new LEAP-1B engines that will be inside their new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircrafts. CFM has a large fleet of these new aircrafts, totaling in at thirty-seven Boeing aircrafts. Their fifteen-year rate per flight agreement will have them slowly getting their new Boeing 737 Max 8 aircrafts all the way up until 2024. Read more >>

Lexar, memory card and computer hardware company, was recently bought out by Longsys, a flash storage company from china. Soon after this transaction, Nikon rumors spread that Lexar was bought out by Longsys and the new owners would be discontinuing their XQD memory card line and relying on CFExpress. Read more >>

Processing Company, Intel has decided to release their new innovative processor that had been long waited for. Unveiling their 9^th generation CPU processor the Ice Lake processor is born. Intel wanted to provide the world with an innovative and more power processor. Upgrading the 8^th generation processor Coffee Lake to 10nm with enhanced process technology. Read more >>

As cryptocurrency has continuously grown over the year the demand and the acceptance as payment has grown just as well. Cryptocurrency had its major break around the year 2009 and only continues to grow all over the web and becoming a part of   many online retailers and other online stores. Do to such an increasing market, Asus a well-known Taiwanese high end gaming brand, has created a Motherboard that specializes in cryptocurrency mining. Read more >>

Sikorsky Aircraft manufactured the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk which is a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-life utility helicopter. It was named after the war leader Black Hawk and it entered service in the U.S. Army in 1978, to replace the Army’s tactical transport helicopter.  It needs two pilots and two crew chiefs in order to operate and its max load is 2640 lbs or 11 combat-equipped troops. Read more >>