Aviation Week & Space Technology, March 23, 2015 is available to both Aviation Week & Space Technology and AWIN subscribers.

Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive critical analysis into emerging trends, technological advancements, operational best practices and continuous updates to policy, requirements and budgets.

Already a subscriber to AW&ST or AWIN? Log in with your existing email and password.

Magazine Issue

Aviation Week & Space Technology, March 23, 2015

VOL. 177 NO. 11 March 23, 2015

Commercial Aviation

WestJet Airlines Looks To Expand Into Long-Haul

Mar 17, 2015

For almost 20 years, WestJet Airlines had a simple business model. But now it is expanding into turboprops and widebodies. Will it work?

France, Germany Protest Gulf Carrier Encroachment

Mar 20, 2015

European governments ponder new antisubsidy initiatives against Gulf carriers as Emirates and Etihad Airways lobby their cases in Washington.

Expansion Plans Gain Momentum At Changi, Hong Kong Hubs

Mar 17, 2015

Governments in Singapore and Hong Kong are throwing their weight behind major airport expansions.

Brussels Airlines Sees Progress In Its Turnaround Plan

Mar 20, 2015

Despite challenges from LCC expansion at its home base, Brussels Airlines seems poised to achieve profitability after investments and management improvements coordinated by its largest shareholder, the Lufthansa Group.

Can Global Surveillance Be Crowd-Sourced?

Mar 17, 2015

With more than 6,200 receivers in place around the populated portions of the world, Flightradar24 will now turn to the oceans to give the nascent surveillance provider more visibility of long-haul routes.

Engineering Judgment Key In 757 Forced Landing In Antarctica

Mar 20, 2015

The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” came in handy for the pilots of a Boeing 757 flying scientists from Christchurch to Pegasus Field in Antarctica when fog forced a landing at well below instrument minimums.

Defense

Patching The F-35’s Data Fusion Gap

Mar 20, 2015

Testers say a software patch gets F-35 closer to promise of multi-ship data fusion.

KAI Chooses Airbus H155 Over AW169 For LCH-LAH

Mar 20, 2015

South Korea’s LCH-LAH is supposed to become the leading 5-ton helicopter. But the base type chosen by Korean Aerospace Industries, the Airbus H155, has not been a strong seller. And there is not a lot of time to make big improvements before the targeted 2020 entry into service.

U.K. Faces Tough Choices In Apache Upgrade Plans

Mar 19, 2015

AgustaWestland and Boeing battle it out to upgrade the U.K.’s Apache fleet.

Sizing Up U.S. Aid To Yemen

Mar 19, 2015

The U.S. has little to show for the millions of dollars it has invested over nearly a decade for training and equipping Yemeni counterterror forces.

Meet The F-35 Developmental Test Fleet At Edwards AFB

Mar 20, 2015

With the F-35 development program 60% complete and two years to go, the test program is operating at a high pace.

Army Aviation

U.S. Army Aviation Restructuring Proceeds Under Pressure

Mar 20, 2015

Despite political headwinds, the U.S. Army is pushing ahead with a restructuring designed to protect investment in future rotorcraft.

Independent Sikorsky An Option Under UTC’s Portfolio Plans

Mar 20, 2015

Sikorsky has a full plate of helicopter programs, but they are just not profitable enough for parent United Technologies.

Technology

Europe Proposes 'Proportionate' Regulation For Civil UAS

Mar 20, 2015

European safety agency proposes three-tier framework for regulation of civil unmanned aircraft operations based on the risk they pose.

Airbus Testing New-Generation HUMS For Light Helicopters

Mar 16, 2015

Health and usage monitoring systems—a necessity for offshore operations—could soon appear on light helicopters, thanks to technology envisaged for wind turbines

Sikorsky, Lord Set For ‘Jet-Smooth’ Helo Tests For U.S. Army

Mar 16, 2015

Helicopter manufacturers may be closing in on a long-sought goal: eliminating rotor-blade vibration.

Large Tandem-Rotor UAS Aimed At Heavy-Lift Markets

Mar 16, 2015

Dragonfly Pictures Inc. is developing the Pelican for the precision aerial-spraying role and, potentially, military supply operations.

The Week in Technology, March 16-20, 2015

Mar 16, 2015

JAXA tries again with quiet-supersonic D-Send; Lockheed adds UAS information to FAA flight services; U.K. extends X-ray inspection to large composites; Russia’s air-cushion UAS; Kickstarter crowdfunding bid for collision-avoidance system.

Space

Future Space Telescopes Will Be Even Bigger Than The Webb

Mar 18, 2015

Technology for the James Webb Space Telescope may be applied to follow-on observatories with almost twice the aperture.

Space Builders Vie To Serve The Smallsat Market

Mar 20, 2015

Seeing a potentially major new market, rocket and spacecraft builders are positioning themselves to appeal to designers of small satellite constellations.

Laureates 2015

Aviation Week Laureates Honor Industry’s Finest

Mar 20, 2015

Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.

Civil Aviation Laureate: Didier Evrard, Airbus’s A350 Magician

Mar 20, 2015

Bucking industry trends, Didier Evrard, Airbus’s executive vice president of programs, was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Civil Aviation Laureate for bringing the A350 widebody to market on time.

Defense Laureate: Carlos Kingston, For Bringing GMD Back To Life

Mar 20, 2015

Carlos Kingston was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Defense Laureate for spearheading the MDA’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense team’s dogged pursuit to identify the cause and to ultimately cure an anomaly in the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.

Space Laureate: ESA’s Cosmic Comet Touchdown

Mar 20, 2015

The European Space Agency was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Space Laureate for getting up close and personal with a comet—landing a robotic space probe on its surface and gleaning a wealth of information.

Business Aviation Laureate: Nextant Aerospace, BizAv Game Changer

Mar 20, 2015

Nextant Aerospace was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Business Aviation Laureate for introducing the concept of remanufacturing business aircraft to the community.

Technology Laureate: GE Aviation’s Greg Morris, Early Additive Adapter

Mar 20, 2015

Greg Morris recognized early in the game just how important additive manufacturing would become. His vision and drive helped spur GE Aviation on a mission that culminated in 3-D printing in its latest engines.

Innovation Laureate: Raytheon And Saab, GaN Galvanizers

Mar 20, 2015

Two winners took home Aviation Week’s Innovation Laureate for 2015—Raytheon and Saab pursued different routes to achieve the same outcome—introducing gallium nitride power electronics to military radar and electronic-warfare systems.

Lifetime Achievement Laureate: John Leahy, Sales Wonderworker

Mar 20, 2015

Airbus’s not so secret weapon is Chief Operating Officer-Customers John Leahy, who in his more than three-decade career helped the manufacturer climb from a very distant third-place spot to a parity position with Boeing.

Lifetime Achievement Laureate: David W. Thompson, ‘New Space’ Pioneer

Mar 20, 2015

David W. Thompson and a pair of classmates from Harvard Business School launched Orbital Sciences Corp. in 1982 to, as they put it, ‘bring the benefits of space down to Earth.’ The company, with Thompson still at the helm, continues to innovate and expand its vision.

Tomorrow’s Leaders Award: Four Outstanding Service Academy Students Lauded

Mar 20, 2015

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.

Up Front

Opinion: Defense Company Restructuring Pace Picks Up

Mar 19, 2015

Reasons for the surge in mergers and acquisitions vary with the motivations of the involved companises.

Inside Business Aviation

George Bye Hopes His All-Electric Sun Flyer Will Revitalize General Aviation

Mar 19, 2015

Sun Flyer just might brighten the outlook of flight school operators while giving a lift to their bottom lines.

Reality Check

Opinion: Dassault May Have To Change Its Focus

Mar 20, 2015

Dassault Aviation, long noted for both its civil and military aircraft offerings, may eventually have to opt for a purely civil product line due to diverse market and political influences.

Leading Edge

Clean Sky Prepares For Helo Diesel Flight Tests

Mar 20, 2015

Mix Formula One technology into an aviation turbo-diesel and you get a fuel-efficient, low-emission helicopter engine.

In Orbit

U.S. Government Seeks Ways To Bypass Cold War Space Secrecy

Mar 18, 2015

Budget realities and better software may be thawing the U.S. government’s resistance to “non-traditional” space sensors to augment the high-priced systems it has developed and fielded over the years.

Washington Outlook

Adjusting the RD-180 Restriction, FAA Changes Afoot, NASA Alters Review Timeline

Mar 20, 2015

Lawmaker considers tweaking last year’s congressional restrictions on RD-180 engine purchases; NASA reschedules big-ticket design reviews after inspector general report; and the FAA is in for a change.

Editorial

Editorial: Spinning Sikorsky, Bowing To Wall Street

Mar 24, 2015

Giving up Sikorsky is shortsighted and could prove to be more of a disservice than a boon to investors.

Who's Where

New Positions, Promotions, Honors And Elections (March 23, 2015)

Mar 19, 2015

Junta Fukunaga has been appointed general manager of the Corporate Administration Div. of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. He was vice president of the General Affairs Department. Other recent job transfers at Mitsubishi are: Toshihiro Kawachi to deputy head from vice president of sales and marketing; Yugo Fukuhara to vice president-sales and marketing from group sales director; Kazuhide Shinoda to deputy head of the Engineering Div.

Feedback

Letters From Our Readers (March 23, 2015)

Mar 20, 2015

Reader disagrees with earlier reader’s assessment of the space shuttle’s worth; U.S. aerospace coalition takes issue with recent editorial on airline subsidies; pilot shortage solutions cited; another pilot shortage suggestion offered; a call for A-10 replacement and mission reassignment

Market Sector

Share

Aviation Week & Space Technology, March 23, 2015

Share

Commercial Aviation

Defense

Army Aviation

Technology

Space

Laureates 2015

Up Front

Inside Business Aviation

Reality Check

Leading Edge

In Orbit

Washington Outlook

Editorial

Who's Where

Feedback