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Leading industrial lighting products manufacturer Larson Electronics has just unveiled plans to sell a brand new 18 Watt LED blasting gun light.  Larson Electronics has been a major player in the industrial lighting industry for well over decade, and their product line has grown to include everything from explosion proof light fixtures to high mast light towers. Larson’s new blast gun light only serves to expand their already impressive product line. Read more >>

Cherry Electrical Products has helped design a “hackable” programmable, battery-free wireless doorbell, using its specialized energy harvesting switch. The doorbell can operate wirelessly and without any battery or external power supply. Cherry Electrical Products was founded in 1953 and has been specializing in micro switches, sensors, electrical controls and touch controls. Read more >>

David Reid of CNBC released an article on their website talking about the possibility of super sonic travel. NASA, the U.S. space agency, might be prepared to launch a new jet that would bring back super sonic travel which was left by the Concorde. Lockheed Martin was awarded with a contract of approximately $20 million by NASA in order to create a design for a “low boom” aircraft for flight demonstration. Lockheed Martin will be working out of its California location. Lockheed Martin was founded in March 1995, with headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. Charles Bolden, the NASA Administrator, spoke in a statement released about how NASA is working to make the aircraft more efficient.

NASA is working hard to make flight greener, safer and quieter – all while developing aircraft that travel faster, and building an aviation system that operates more efficiently. said Bolden

To add to this, the statement also had information on the super sonic plane for passenger flight. "We're continuing that supersonic X-plane legacy with this preliminary design award for a quieter super sonic jet with an aim toward passenger flight." The “low boom” refers to the sound that is made when breaking the sound barrier. Lockheed Martin is planning to design their aircraft so that a soft thump would be in place of a huge bang that would normally occur when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier. The new design of this airplane, considered part of the series of “X-planes,” will be scheduled for its first manned flight in approximately 4 years. AFR Enterprises owned and operated by ASAP Semiconductor is a leading supplier of Aerospace Industry Parts and has the resources to supply an array of aircraft products. If you are interested in a quote, please contact our friendly sales staff at sales@afrenterprises.com call us toll free at 1-714-705-4780. Read more >>

The Boeing Company, the American aerospace multinational corporation, has recently launched their Next-Generation 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) with commitments and orders from seven customers for up to nearly 55 aircraft conversions. Through the utilization of their freight conversion program, The Boeing Aircraft Company is capable of converting passenger airlines into freights, which often extends the economic life of the aircraft. The 737-800 is the first of the Next-Generation 737 which Boeing will offer for conversion. The converted 737-800BCF will mainly be used on domestic routes while carrying express cargo. Read more >>

Daher, the French automotive, aerospace, and defense conglomerate, has recently been showcasing their new enhancements on their Model Year 2016 version of their TBM 900 very fast turboprop aircraft.  These upgrades will allow for improved warning identification, further enhanced flight envelope protection, as well as improved facilitation of flight planning. Daher has been presenting these enhancements at the Changi Exhibition Center at the Singapore Airshow. Read more >>

Gulfstream the Aerospace Corporation has announced today that company was granted approval to use its Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast in their G150 and the G200 from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration otherwise known as the FAA. The primary advantage of having the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast is that operators of the G150 and the G200 can acquire traffic and weather reports and updates from their Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast ground stations as well as any other aircraft broadcasting their location on the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast In. Read more >>

On February 10^th, 2016, Oscar Nkala of Defense News released an article talking about how the government of Equatorial Guinea had taken delivery of two Airbus C-295 aircrafts. The government of Equatorial Guinea has plans of sending of one of the two Airbus C-295 aircrafts for missions dealing with surveillance over the Economics Exclusive Zone or EZZZ which is on the Gulf of Guinea Island. The one Airbus C-295 has been marked and assigned for troop transportation in the deployment department. Read more >>

Today, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has announced that the G500 has finally completed its flutter testing. This marks another milestone in Gulfstream’s flight-test program for the G500, with the first G500 test aircraft the T1 having ran over 50 flights. Over 430 flight-test hours spanning over 105 flights, the three aircrafts in flight are signs that extraordinary progress is being made in the G500 flight-test program. Read more >>

Under an Aviation Restructuring Initiative (ARI) issued in October of 2013, the Army National Guard has been strongly advised by the U.S. Army to retain some AH-64 Apache attack helicopters as opposed to relinquishing it back to the Army. This initiative is designed to reduce the annual procurement by the Guard for the UH-60s helicopters up to ten and requiring only two UH-60 Black Hawk battalions as opposed to the traditional four. The commission is tasked with analyzing and assessing the size and mixtures of forces needed to maintain an active Army National Guard aircraft arsenal. Read more >>

What does it mean to be the most powerful ever? Well, Boeing certainly can soon lay claim to that prestigious mantle. Jackie Nesselroad who is leading the team from Boeing on a mission to build the most powerful rocket in the world. Inside the Michoud Assembly Facility lies the world’s largest welding system in the world. Housed within the mammoth 800+ acre space park built by NASA just outside of the great city of New Orleans, the nearly 200 feet tall metal frame is being worked prepared to hopefully launch the world’s most powerful rocket soon. Christened the SLS, the rocket will have one end game in mind: Mars or bust. Read more >>