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Mar 29, 2016
The choice is effectively between market potential maximization and operating economics: A single-aisle jet offers lower production and operating costs but would miss much of the replacement market; a twin-aisle could stimulate new demand but would be more expensive to produce and operate.
Mar 29, 2016
Five years before Concorde was introduced into service, an advanced design team was already working on a second-generation transport that would be defined by 1975 and enter service in 1980-85.
Mar 28, 2016
A March 23, 1964 special report in Aviation Week & Space Technology takes a detailed look at Lockheed Aircraft Corp's CL-823 supersonic transport configuration.
Mar 28, 2016
The money, talent and business model could be found to break the Airbus and Boeing duopoly, but the vision may prove more elusive.
Mar 28, 2016
NASA researchers, together with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are planning demonstrations of an autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capable of planning, launching, navigating and refueling itself.
Mar 28, 2016
Onera studies hybrid electric UAS; APL’s Cracuns lurks underwater; AFRL eyes attritable UAS; unmanned cloud-seeding in Nevada; DHS looks at acoustic counter-UAS
Mar 28, 2016
A mission to count moose footprints is the first commercial unmanned-aircraft mission in Canada to be approved for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operation.
Mar 28, 2016
Has the word 'blue' always been used in airline names or was JetBlue Airways a trendsetter after its U.S. launch in the late 1990s?