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Aviation Week & Space Technology, November 23, 2015

VOL. 177 NO. 46 November 23, 2015

Propulsion

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CFM Lifts Veil On Leap Engine Test Details

Nov 20, 2015
Since launching the Leap program, GE-Snecma joint venture CFM has added more engines to support Airbus, Boeing and Comac, partly to reduce risk as production begins.
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A320neo Certification Edges Pratt & Whitney GTF Toward Service Entry

Nov 25, 2015
Pratt & Whitney is poised to realize its decades-long goal of introducing the geared turbofan into commercial service, with certification of the PW1100G-powered Airbus A320neo achieved on November 24, and the PW1500G-powered Bombardier CSeries expected to follow within weeks.
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GE Challenges P&WC PT6 With New Advanced Turboprop Engine

Nov 20, 2015
General Electric is targeting the general aviation and business turboprop market with an engine using an integrated gas generator and propeller control.

First Take

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First Take, Nov. 23, 2016

Nov 20, 2015
BUSINESS AVIATION Cessna is to enter the large-cabin business-jet market with the clean-sheet, 4,500-nm-range Citation Hemisphere, to fly in 2019. With a 102-in.-wide cabin, the aircraft is larger than the Citation Columbus canceled in 2009. The Citation Longitude (pictured), to fly in 2016, has been repositioned below the Hemisphere, with range reduced to 3,400 nm.

Defense

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French Defense Priorities Shift To Offense

Nov 20, 2015
French President Francois Hollande and the National Assembly had set very different defense ministry spending plans before the Nov. 13 Islamic State group attacks in Paris. A robust response is forcing a change in those priorities.
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ULA Backs Out Of GPS III Duel With SpaceX

Nov 19, 2015
Then there was one: What could really be behind ULA’s decision not to compete against SpaceX?
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KC-46 Shifts To Fuel Dock, Prep For Midair Refueling Demo

Nov 19, 2015
Boeing looks forward to KC-46 aerial refueling demo after overcoming past technical, cost hurdles.
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The Week In Defense, Nov. 19-26, 2015

Nov 19, 2015
Smart bombs for Syria; U.S. Army adds to Lakota purchase; U.S. Navy tests Lrasm, and Turkey cancels missile defense buy from China.

Business Aviation

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Textron Moves Cessna Toward Large-cabin Jet Market

Nov 20, 2015
With the lighter business jet market still in the doldrums, Cessna makes a decisive move into the more stable large-cabin market.

Simulation And Training

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Industry Embraces ‘Blended’ Training For Pilots, Maintainers

Nov 19, 2015
PowerPoint and whiteboards don’t cut it for teaching the new generation to fly, crew and maintain aircraft. This is what the military and civilian aviation worlds are doing about it.
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Leading By Simulation: Canada’s Chinook Squadron

Nov 19, 2015
Tough lessons from Afghanistan fuel next-generation virtual training targets.
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NASA Brings Fused Reality Simulation Into Cockpit

Nov 23, 2015
Complex or risky tasks in flight testing or training can be simulated in the aircraft using a virtual display in the cockpit.
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Redbird’s ‘GIFT’ To Aspiring Private Pilots

Nov 18, 2015
New students will soon be able to learn with a virtual instructor in an immersive environment as part of a new private-pilot curriculum soon to be released by Redbird Flight.

100 Years of Aviation Week

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Increasing Speeds Defined Aviation History

Nov 20, 2015
Airplane speeds rocketed ahead in the first 60 years of flight, but today most of the world’s fastest aircraft are in museums. How did that happen?
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The Technology Of High-Speed Flight

Nov 20, 2015
Ten milestones on the road to hypersonics, from the first aero-engines to the wedge-shaped lifting body.

Technology

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Darpa Demonstrates All-Digital Persistent Close Air Support

Nov 16, 2015
Darpa program takes commercial tablets, digital communications and high-performance computing and enables air and ground forces to coordinate close air support using shared situational awareness.
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Cobalt Targets High-end General Aviation With Valkyrie

Nov 16, 2015
Ten years in the making, Cobalt’s five-seat Co50 emerges first as an experimental aircraft with a plan for certification by 2017.
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The Week In Technology, Nov. 16-20, 2015

Nov 16, 2015
Insitu launches UAV from UAV; Airbus flies diesel helo; 3-D printing a fast-jet UAV; NASA explores Prandtl’s wing; XTI takes crowdfunding step.

Commercial Aviation

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Airlines Seek Sweet Spot In Premium, Economy Distinction

Nov 17, 2015
Airlines are broadening seating options, by upgrading their premium cabins and downgrading economy class. There is a danger, however, that if airlines go too far in either direction, they could drive passengers toward other options.
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Gogo Touts Fast Speeds Of Its New Satellite-based 2Ku System

Nov 17, 2015
Gogo has created a new satellite platform with more bandwidth than ever. But will airlines add it?
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Looming Issues Temper Outlook For Asian Airlines

Nov 17, 2015
Despite improving profits, cargo weakness and other issues remain a concern for the Asia-Pacific airline industry.
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Kenya Airways Will Cut Boeing Fleet To Reach Profitability

Nov 17, 2015
The Kenyan flag carrier’s traffic suffered from a series of attacks by Islamist militants in the East African nation and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, but it was also damaged by an overambitious expansion plan.

Space

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How Earth-sized Exoplanet Can Aid Search For Extraterrestrial Life

Nov 20, 2015
Scientists are pointing their telescopes at an Earth-sized exoplanet that orbits a star 39 light years away.
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NASA-Furnished Propulsion Slows Orion ESM Work At Airbus

Nov 18, 2015
Airbus Defense and Space is facing schedule challenges as it develops a European service module that will power the NASA Orion crew capsule, including documentation issues for Shuttle-era propulsion systems and NASA safety concerns over redundancy.

Rotorcraft

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Airbus, Romanians Team Up To Compete With Russian Helicopters

Nov 20, 2015
Romanian production could make Airbus’s Super Puma more competitive against Russia’s Mi-17

Going Concerns

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Agitating Investors Push Aerospace Strategic Decisions

Nov 19, 2015
Not all activist shareholders are Gordon Gekko, and not everything they represent is bad for the A&D industry.

Airline Intel

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Record Low Dubai Airshow Orders Show Rational Behavior

Nov 20, 2015
Fleet plans have already been made for most carriers, both for short-haul and long-haul services, and Airbus and Boeing order books are full for the next eight years. Anything but some kind of pause would be both unusual and unhealthy.

Commander's Intent

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Opinion: LRS-B Protest Rhetoric Masks Fragile Case

Nov 23, 2015
A formal protest of the Pentagon’s Long-Range Strike Bomber award to Northrop Grumman has to be based on failure to follow rules, but the challengers’ public case goes far beyond that.

In Orbit

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Spacecraft Data Show Change Is Universal

Nov 18, 2015
Improved observation data from various spacecraft confirm that Earth is changing, as other planets have, and not necessarily for the better.

Washington Outlook

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Funding For Future LRS-Bs And Fighters; Space Mining

Nov 20, 2015
Bomber lobby lays the groundwork for the kind of attack on its budget now threatening the F-35; new space bill allows citizens to mine the Moon for its water ice.

Feedback

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Letters From Our Readers (Nov. 23, 2015)

Nov 20, 2015
No winners in airframe war yet; dark side of the Moon misnomer; a call for Sbirs flexibility; appreciations of 100th Anniversary features.

Who's Where

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New Positions, Promotions, Honors And Elections (Nov. 23, 2015)

Nov 20, 2015
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. (ret.) Kelly Latimer (see photo) has been chosen to pilot for Virgin Galactic, based in Mojave, California. Latimer was the first female research test pilot to be hired by NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center. Global aerospace components manufacturer Norsk Titanium has appointed Steve Carrington vice president-sales, Tony Prezioso vice president-contracts and Nicholas Mayer vice president-product development.

Aerospace Calendar

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Aerospace Calendar (Nov. 23, 2015)

Nov 20, 2015
Nov. 30-Dec. 2—Defense & Aerosupply India 2015. Novotel Hyderabad International Convention Center. Hyderabad, India. See aerosupplyindia.com Dec. 1-2—IndiaMRO Aerospace & Defense 2015. The Lalit Ashok. Bengaluru, India. See indiamro.in