Tag: aircraft
Another aircraft debris washes up on southern beach prompting MH370 speculation
JUST a month after a mysterious piece of aircraft debris washed up on Nakhon Si Thammarat province’s Pak Phanang beach another puzzling fragment of a large plane landed at a nearby beach raising suspicions that it could belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared with 239 people on board during a flight from Kuala …
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Thailand becomes first foreign customer of AT-6 light-attack aircraft
TEXTRON Aviation Defense has secured its first international buyer for the Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine, with the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) to receive eight of the armed turboprops, FlightGlobal.com news site said on Sunday (Nov. 14). Thailand has signed a $143 million (approximately 4.675 billion baht) contract to acquire the type, which is on …
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China watching as UK’s aircraft carrier group is now ready to deploy
By Brad Lendon, CNN BRITAIN is officially an aircraft carrier power again. The Royal Navy announced on Monday (Jan. 4) that the UK’s Carrier Strike Group, centred on Britain’s largest ever warship, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, had achieved initial operating capability. The designation means the 65,000-ton carrier, its air assets including F-35 stealth fighter jets …
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As Asia’s tropical storm season arrives, grounded airplanes at risk of damage
By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia Taipei: Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region’s tropical storm season begins, as hundreds of planes grounded by the coronavirus pandemic cannot be moved easily. Major airports in storm-vulnerable regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, …
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