Rolls-Royce has appointed Tom Bell as president and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America. He also remains president of Rolls-Royce defense services. He succeeds Marion Blakey, who is retiring.
Readers note eVTOL designs, past and present; wonder why USAF opts for some defense aircraft over others; note factors affecting decline in general aviation.
Did Brexit slow European UCAV development?; Lockheed’s space fence scheduled for operations in 2019; Singapore keeps defense dollars steady and Japan interested in Phalanx weapons upgrade.
In response to new threats from China and Russia, the U.S. is putting its energy into hypersonic technologies and rethinking its plan for the next-generation of air superiority.
Boeing Phantom Works rolled out the “T-1” tanking UAV prototype in November 2014, but kept under wraps until recently. Now, the covers have finally come off.
Embraer has the raised the technology and performance bars significantly with the E-Jet E2, but amid the improvements pilots will find much that is familiar. Photo: Embraer
Embraer is about to deliver the first Embraer 190-E2 to its launch operator Wideroe. Just prior to certification, reached at the end of February, Aviation Week was invited to fly the third prototype at Gaviao Peixoto and Sao Jose dos Campos. Evaluation pilot Tim Wuerfel tested the aircraft's maneuverability and the protections built into the new fly-by-wire system.
Bruce Whitman of Flight Safety International was awarded the Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award at Aviation Week's 61st annual Laureate Awards at the National Building Museum in Washington on March 1, 2018.
The U.S.’s planned development of a low-yield nuclear SLBM and SLCM punctuates a turning point in the long-running drive toward arms reduction as Putin also unveils new weapons meant to undermine Western missile defenses.
