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May 08, 2015
Starting next year, airline and business jet pilots in the European Union will be required to complete a comprehensive upset prevention and recovery course every three years, but without full stall training.
May 08, 2015
First officer of Germanwings Flight 9525 acted suspiciously on earlier flight, BEA report finds.
May 08, 2015
U.S. newsgathering, precision agriculture and railroad companies take the lead in pushing small UAS use beyond the initial tight limits outlined by the FAA.
May 08, 2015
Emirates, undeterred from competitor claims, continues growth as new aircraft arrive and airport expands.
May 08, 2015
The control system theory that makes for precision autoflight control of today’s modern jetliners is taken for granted, but in 1953 – only 30 years after first public demonstration of an autopilot by Lawrence Sperry in Paris – elements of that technology were still considered groundbreaking.
May 07, 2015
Rolls’s results were worsening in a way not seen since the worldwide financial crisis of 2008.
May 07, 2015
The May 29, 1967 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology carried a series of photos from the Sud Aviation plant in Toulouse and the British Aircraft Corp. plant in Filton.
May 07, 2015
Unfortunately for the child pictured in this advertisement, he would never get to experience supersonic travel on 'America's SST' - the L-2000. The ad was placed in Aviation Week & Space Technology in 1967, before Lockheed lost the contract for the government-funded competition to Boeing's 2707, which was subsequently canceled for economic reasons.