Steve Trimble

Defense Editor

Washington, DC

Summary

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

Born in a U.S. Air Force family, he grew up on military bases around the world and came to Washington DC in 1997 to work for Army Times Publishing Co. as a journalist. Steve helped launch the Military.com portal in 2000, then joined the editorial team for Aviation Week’s web site in 2001. He reported on the Pentagon for Aerospace Daily in 2002 and 2003.

From September 2003 to September 2018, Steve covered defense and aviation issues and managed staff as the US bureau chief for Jane’s Defence Weekly and later FlightGlobal. He has covered aviation stories on six continents and won multiple awards, including the 2017 Aerospace Media Awards honor for Best In-Depth Feature on the effort to revive Russia’s commercial aviation industry.

 

Articles

By Steve Trimble
Advanced Space LLC will demonstrate a spacecraft at a location about 200,000 mi. from Earth that can monitor other objects in the cislunar region, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on Nov 10.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The test of the reheat module in the T-7A’s GE Aviation F414 turbofan kicked off a series of high-power engine tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The approval covers 18 M57 ATACMS pods for the Baltic country, along with eight M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers.
Missile Defense & Weapons