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Potential for reducing fuel consumption by up to 10%
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Guy Norris | Aviation Daily

Boeing says formation flight tests conducted with FedEx Express using two 777F freighters confirm the potential for reducing fuel consumption by up to 10% by flying in the wingtip vortex of the lead aircraft.
 
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Lee Hudson | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. government halted deliveries of the F-35 for 15 days because the Defense Contract Management Agency found comingling of titanium and Inconel fasteners.
 
Cybersecurity burst upon the embedded systems landscape in 2016 when the infamous Mirai Internet-of-Things botnet took down major websites using hundreds of thousands of compromised IoT devices. Gain insight from Sean Evoy, product manager for Wind River Simics and the Wind River Workbench, as he discusses security solutions for the Aerospace and Defence markets.
 
Harbour Air flies first electric commercial aircraft, agreements to establish a new U.S. Space Force, Japan's potential ¥30B spend on future fighters, missing KC-130 and more. A roundup of aerospace, space and defense news. 
 
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Bill Carey 

Synthetic training environments should be founded on common terrain and threat databases, military leaders say.
 
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Jens Flottau and Michael Bruno 

Airbus and Boeing are betting on increased narrowbody use for long-haul flying, which comes at the expense of larger models that once dominated the segment.
 
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