Aviation Week & Space Technology

There may be some hints of intent as the presidential campaign heads into the home stretch in September-October.

Drone delivery services like Amazon’s Prime Air and Google’s Project Wing will reinvent how manned aircraft will eventually fly.

The strategic world of today does not conform to air mobility and force-structure plans based on mass force movements between secure bases.

JPL head Charles Elachi was awarded an Aviation Week Lifetime Achievement Laureate for “a lifetime dedicated to gaining a better understanding of the Solar System.

Offshore industry and OEMs have taken new approaches to safety procedures since the Shetlands Super Puma crash.

USAF Staff Sgt. Greggory Swarz’s decision to rush—with no thought of personal safety—to aid crash victims at an air base in Spain resulted in two airmen surviving a crash that proved fatal to 11.

Committee leader seeks to improve FAA; Lockheed offers new platform to end U-2, Global Hawk controversy; and Air Force seeks reflectors on cubesats.

Aerion takes a giant step forward in its pursuit of a supersonic business jet, adding another OEM to its team that already includes Airbus.

Sales to Pakistan are moving forward, but without further sales, Lockheed’s manufacturing line may run cold.

Taiwan pursues new trainer; F-35 team manages expectations on U.S. Air Force start date; Boeing scores major CH-47F contract mod; and Lockheed delivers tankers to Saudi Arabia.

New Typhoon capabilities could be paid for via savings from operating model.

Britain’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy are growing their presence at MCAS Beaufort in South Carolina as they prepare to introduce the F-35 into service.

Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 hybrid airship venture represents its first significant foray into civil aviation since the 1980s.

French will retool instrument to stop vacuum leak that stopped a launch to Mars that had been scheduled for this month.

Gradatim Ferociter—By degrees, ferociously—aptly states Amazon and Blue Horizon founder Jeff Bezos’s approach to fulfilling his visions for humans in space, and NASA’s.

Dubbed ExoMars, the two-pronged mission will send a methane-sniffing satellite, landing demonstrator and rover equipped with a drill to dig further into the mystery of trace-gas sources on Mars.

U.S. airlines are recording record profits. Now pilots want payback for past concessions.

The shifting competitive landscape—from China to space startups—is among the topics covered in an interview Aviation Week conducted with Boeing International’s president.

Europe’s airline safety regulators urge revamping rules to guard against intentional crashing of aircraft by suicidal pilots.

With two-thirds of the world’s air navigation service providers already using Thales automation systems, the company could rapidly become the dominant player in the emerging field of remote control tower technologies.

Development of Boeing Phantom Works’ unmanned undersea vehicle Echo Voyager could lead to parallel advances for UAVs.

Laser comms for UAVs; fly by spot beam; Perlan 2 feels the pressure; Eraole set for Atlantic attempt.

The future of defense procurement was parsed brilliantly by lauded science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, well more than a half-decade ago.

March 21-24—3rd ESA Workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads. European Space Agency. Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands. See congrexprojects.com/2016-events/16c05/introduction March 21-24—International Operators Conference/NBAA. Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. San Diego. See nbaa.org/events/ioc/2016

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