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Erdogan warns Turkish Airlines may drop Boeing orders

Turkish Airlines (TK, Istanbul Airport) could drop its Boeing (BOE, Washington National) order book as Turkey looks to retaliate against the US government's decision to exclude its NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally from Lockheed Martin's F-35 fifth-generation, multirole combat aircraft programme.

Earlier this month, Turkey began taking delivery of its Russian-manufactured Almaz SS-400 integrated air and missile defence system parts. The US Department of Defense (DOD), in turn, suspended and initiated the process to formally remove Turkey from the F-35 program.

Aside from the country's role in the production of F-35 parts, the Turkish Air Force/Türk Hava Kuvvetleri (THK) had also planned to order over 100 F-35As. Although THK aircrews had trained on F-35s back in 2018, none have ever been formally handed over to the Turks given Capitol Hill's decision to ban the export of the jets back in June 2018.

The US has previously offered Turkey Raytheon-built Patriot missile battery systems while warning Turkey that it cannot field a Russian intelligence-collection platform in proximity...

Hermeus Corp. secures seed funding for Mach 5 jet

Hermeus Corporation, an aerospace technology start-up based in Atlanta in the United States, has obtained finance from seed funders and private investors to develop an aircraft that will travel at five times the speed of sound.

A maximum speed of Mach 5 (6,100 kilometres per hour) would slash the journey time between London and New York from more than seven hours today to ninety minutes, Hermeus (Atlanta Dekalb-Peachtree) claimed in a statement on the company's website dated May 13.

Among the start-up's founders are engineers from privately funded aerospace manufacturers SpaceX and Blue Origin who led the development of the X-60A, a hypersonic rocket that completed its critical design review in March. The funding is being led by Khosla Ventures, an American venture capital firm focussed on early-stage technology companies.

Hermeus wants to connect the world's cities “significantly faster than ever before," said AJ Piplica, its co-founder and chief executive, who added that it would bring global transportation infrastructure from the equivalent of dial-up into the broadband era.

The first commercial flight could...

Pallas Aviation named LM-100J launch operator

Lockheed Martin (LHM, Palmdale) has announced that Texas-based Pallas Aviation will be the launch operator of the LM-100J commercial freighter.

The LM-100J is a variant of the C-130J Super Hercules and is currently undergoing US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) type certificate update testing.

According to Lockheed, Pallas Aviation will provide management services and operational control of two LM-100Js requiring heavy-lift/oversized cargo capability into and out of unconventional airports and remote locations for a specific set of clients in multiple industries.

It will operate its LM‑100Js out of Fort Worth Alliance in Texas.