Aviation Week & Space Technology

For private equity-held defense contractors acquired during the height of military spending, current industry strategies are starting to diverge from the traditional investor thinking.

Flight tests on NASA Gulfstream will focus on verifying structural strength of morphing flap

SNPL pilot union demands could sink a struggling Air France

A conundrum: Increasingly reliable aircraft lead to disengaged pilots

Major upgrade enhances Australia’s continent-wide monitoring system

Counter-stealth radars could proliferate

Industry blasts FAA for lack of flight-testing on LED replacement lights.

Big M&A may lurk, but divestitures remain industry’s go-to portfolio shaper

Satellites enable everything from better weather forecasts to smartphones; we would literally be lost without them.

Clean Sky’s Low Noise Configuration project is demonstrating noise-reducing technologies for regional-turboprop landing gear and high-lift systems.

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko poses an unexpected challenge for Rosetta mission.

Confident that unconventional designs can reduce aircraft noise, NASA eyes less radical approaches.

NASA turns to numerical simulation to prove flap and gear noise reduction

The two major airlines in the Philippines are seizing new opportunities offered by fleet changes and government rulings.

Boeing Tackles Tanker Platform Flight Sked Slilppage

Airbus Group ditching non-core assets, including its stake in Dassault

F135 engine fix for F-25s could be complete as early as next year

Naveen C. Rao has become counsel to the aviation subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He has been in private law practice with Squire Patton Boggs and previously Jones Day.

Dante Lauretta has been named a science adviser to Planetary Resources Inc., Redmond, Washington. He is a professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of Osiris-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission.

Angelia Keene (see photo) has been appointed director of safety for Aloha Air Cargo. She was director of ground and flight safety for Island Air.

USAF Lt. Gen. Tod D. Wolters has been named deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and requirements at USAF Headquarters at the Pentagon. He has been commander of the Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern) of Air Combat Command (ACC), Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Brig. Gen. VeraLinn Jamieson has been nominated for promotion to major general and has been director of intelligence at ACC Headquarters, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Brig. Gen. Paul H. Guemmer has been appointed commander of the Jeanne M.

Tom Eaton has become Washington-based vice president-international sales for Telesat. He succeeds Nigel Gibson, who will be leaving the company. Eaton has been president of Harris CapRock Communications and was executive vice president-global sales and marketing of PanAmSat and vice president of global sales and customer support at Intelsat.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Robert V. Hoppa has been named director of U.S. Africa Command, based in Stuttgart, Germany. He has been deputy chief of staff for intelligence at International Security Assistance Force Headquarters and deputy director for operations and support for United States Forces-Afghanistan.

Jeremy Bennett has been named Huntsville, Alabama-based manager of business development for Summit Aviation. He was director of flight operations for Wyle at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center in Huntsville.

Patrick Mills has been appointed chief mechanical engineer within the Airborne Power and Control Div. of Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, Kirkland, Washington. He was an engineer for the Eaton Corp.