UK to privatize aircrew training
Filed under: England, Lockheed Martin, Military Aviation, VT Group, training
Bump - Further details on the contract the UK signed with Ascent, the joint venture of Lockheed and VT, to conduct aviation training have come out. See this article for some of the new details. It is a 25 year contract with the contractor that will be implemented incrementally as the current training program completes.
According to this short report, the UK is ready to transition all of its pilot training to a private contractor. This is for the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army rotary wing pilots. If this is true it represents a major change in how training has been done in the past. One would have to assume that there are major cost savings in this transition away from maintaining their own aircraft and training staff. Beyond saying that Lockheed Martina and VT will carry out the contract no details were given as to how it would be done.
UK orders 14 tankers from EADS
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, England, commercial aviation, logistics
As predicted EADS along with a group of English and French companies won a contract to build 14 tankers for the Royal Air Force. See a story here. The contract is worth $26 Billion. Boeing had been eliminated from the competition a few years earlier.
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