国产精品99一区二区三_免费中文日韩_国产在线精品一区二区_日本成人手机在线

Boeing's KC-46 mid-air refueling tanker passes FAA certification

Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-06 07:47:50|Editor: Li Xia
Video PlayerClose

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) to Boeing's KC-46 mid-air refueling tanker to complete the aircraft's FAA certification process, said U.S. top aircraft manufacturer Boeing Company on Wednesday.

The STC is one of two required FAA airworthiness certifications that the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus tanker has been sought for over the past three years, when a Boeing team started a series of lab, ground and flight tests in 2015.

"This milestone is important in that it is one of the last major hurdles in advance of first delivery to the U.S. Air Force," said Mike Gibbons, Boeing KC-46A tanker vice president and program manager.

The KC-46 is a multirole tanker derived from Boeing's commercial 767 airframe to provide refueling support for U.S. military aircraft.

Boeing received an Amended Type Certificate for its core 767-2C aircraft configuration in December 2017.

Boeing engineers completed flight testing including the jet's aerial refueling, defensive and other military-specific systems in early July to qualify for the Military Type Certificate to be granted in the next few months.

Boeing said six KC-46 tankers have completed a total of 3,500 flights hours and offloaded more than 1.35 million kg of fuel during refueling flights with F-16, F/A-18 and other military aircraft.

Boeing is currently on contract for the first 34 of an expected 179 tankers for the U.S. Air Force, and the jets are being built in the company's Everett facility in Washington state on the U.S. west coast.

TOP STORIES
EDITOR’S CHOICE
MOST VIEWED
EXPLORE XINHUANET
010020070750000000000000011100001374481551
主站蜘蛛池模板: 淮阳县| 浦城县| 尚志市| 青海省| 常州市| 姜堰市| 会理县| 滁州市| 岳阳县| 莱阳市| 会东县| 怀集县| 尼勒克县| 马鞍山市| 阳东县| 竹溪县| 甘泉县| 仙桃市| 邹城市| 封开县| 紫金县| 静海县| 旬阳县| 济阳县| 九江市| 夏津县| 昌都县| 二连浩特市| 静宁县| 天水市| 哈巴河县| 墨脱县| 岳西县| 容城县| 五家渠市| 阳谷县| 塘沽区| 乌鲁木齐市| 大安市| 探索| 普陀区|