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...Germany does not fly F-16 jets....
...But the group “has capacity available to scale production of gas-powered and hybrid F-150 trucks based on customer demand”....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, the most popular independent candidate, has more than 10.5 per cent, while Cornel West and Jill Stein are each on about 2 per cent, according to a RealClearPolitics average....
...The Democratic and Republican nominees are joined by the dynastic Robert F Kennedy Jr and leftist academic Cornel West running as independents, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein....
...Ford is cutting production of its F-150 Lightning electric pick-up truck as it predicts slower EV sales growth this year....
...“[I]f JetBlue were permitted to gobble up Spirit — at least as proposed — it would eliminate one of the airline industry’s few primary competitors that provides unique innovation and price discipline,” Young...
...The Pentagon’s costly fleet of F-35 fighter jets can only fly a little over half the time, as maintenance issues keep the aircraft on the ground despite the growing reliance on the planes by the US and its...
...The Netherlands and Denmark were the first nations to donate F-16s to Kyiv, while Oslo had already agreed to provide two F-16s for Ukrainian pilot training....
...The F-35’s share of the US’s overall tactical aviation fleet is expected to keep growing, providing a boon to its manufacturer Lockheed Martin....
...Sales within Lockheed’s aeronautics business fell 5 per cent, owing to lower sales of its F-35 fighter jet....
...Sales within Lockheed’s aeronautics business fell 5 per cent, though, owing to lower sales of its marquee F-35 fighter jet....
...Ford plans to triple its annual F-150 Lightning production rate to 150,000 starting this autumn....
...Revenue and earnings in the second quarter rose from a year earlier, helped by a 17 per cent boost in sales in its aeronautics segment, which houses the F-35....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr has picked as his running mate Nicole Shanahan, a political newcomer and one of his largest donors. Before Shanahan was on the ballot, she was funding research into ovaries....
...The sticker prices of seven F-150 Lightning models will be reduced between $6,079 and $9,979, with the “Pro” base vehicle now falling below $50,000, Ford said on Monday....
...The US federal aviation regulator noted there was a “medium” possibility of extending the LaGuardia ground stop and that disruptions were possible at other New York area airports including John F Kennedy...
...What this does allow me to do is to give another plug to my colleague Steff Chávez’s excellent US Election Countdown newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday....
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...It’s also interesting to see how much the tragic murders of pivotal figures such as Martin Luther King and Robert F Kennedy, both of whom were able to speak across class and colour lines, made it significantly...
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...However, Lockheed’s annual sales slid to $66bn in 2022 from $67bn the previous year, as it made fewer F-35s sensors, THAAD missiles and Black Hawk helicopters than in 2021....
...Lockheed’s quarterly sales boost was driven by $275mn in net sales of the group’s marquee F-35 fighter jet programme and $260mn for various integrated warfare systems and sensors....
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