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Aviation Week & Space Technology, May 22, 2017

VOL. 179 NO. 20 May 22, 2017

Defense

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British, Turkish Governments Green Light TF-X Development Work

May 15, 2017
Turkey’s fighter will be twin-engine, but the choice of a powerplant has not yet been made.
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Indigenous Turkish Helicopter Unveiled

May 16, 2017
The six-metric-ton T625 is the result of Turkish program launched in 2013 to locally produce a rotorcraft that could replace hundreds of aging UH-1 Hueys.
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North Korean Hwasong-12 Missile Nears ICBM Performance

May 18, 2017
A range of 5,500 km would reach the western edge of Alaska and would cover all of East Asia, including the far west of China, with Australia just out of reach
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Tokyo Seeks New Ways To Stop North Korean Missiles

May 19, 2017
Aegis Ashore batteries would add an outer layer to Japan’s ballistic-missile defense. Tomahawks on destroyers could hit Pyongyang’s weapons before launch.
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F-35 Gives U.S. Marines The Edge In Tense Asia-Pacific

May 16, 2017
Marine Corps is touting the stealthy JSF in training exercises in Japan, South Korea, and Alaska.
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Boeing, Piasecki Unveil Concepts For Marines’ MUX UAS

May 18, 2017
Tailsitter and tilting ducted fan VTOL concepts join the chase for the Marine Corps’ emerging requirement for a large, ship-based multimission unmanned system.
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The Week In Defense, May 18-25, 2017

May 18, 2017
India’s Light Combat Aircraft demonstrates missile integration, Israel’s Air Force replaces Sea Scan patrol aircraft with Heron UAVs, a longer-range loitering UAV, and U.S. approves more Patriot missiles for UAE.

Commercial Aviation

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Airline Ownership Rules Reforms On Horizon In Europe

May 19, 2017
The European Commission is leading slow changes to ownership-and-control rules that would enable foreign investors to have more say in acquired airlines.
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AirAsia And State Partners Agree To Set Up Chinese Offshoot

May 17, 2017
China’s big and influential airlines can only see the arrival of famously efficient AirAsia as a threat that must be contained.
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Hong Kong Looks To Lure Aircraft Lessors

May 17, 2017
New financial incentives and links to mainland China will be key to establishing Hong Kong as an aircraft leasing hub.
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Safran Tackles Leap 1B Low-Pressure Turbine Production Issue

May 18, 2017
Safran Aircraft Engines CEO Olivier Andries stresses the LP turbine’s design is not at stake and describes the situation as a “temporary logistic disturbance.”

Propulsion

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GE Testing For Boeing 777X Engine Moves Into High Gear

May 18, 2017
The stakes are high for General Electric’s GE9X testing program for Boeing’s future 777X twinjet.

Paris Preview: Space

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Spaceflight Takes Off And Takes A Bow At Paris Air Show

May 17, 2017
From the big rockets for human spaceflight to the swarms of tiny cubesats revolutionizing data and bandwidth, the space economy is making a name for itself.

Paris Preview: Suppliers

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Beware, OEM-supplier Relations Are Changing

May 18, 2017
More OEM vertical integration is coming, but so are new opportunities for suppliers, including non-traditional ones.

Paris Preview: Face to Face

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Boeing’s Caret: Fighter Lines May Stay Viable Until Late 2020s

May 18, 2017
Leanne Caret, president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the revival of fighter programs, the state of play on the KC-46A tanker, the importance of T-X and more.

Business

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Vaunted Vought Properties Identified for Insolvency

May 15, 2017
Some Wall Street analysts suggest Vought’s insolvency warning might be a ploy to bolster Triumph in negotiations with OEM customers.

Technology

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Drone-in-a-Box Solutions Let Customers Focus On Business

May 18, 2017
Israel’s Airobotics breaks new ground with approval to operate automated drones remotely for missions such as site surveys and security patrols.
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NASA Challenges Crowd To Speed Up Iconic CFD Software

May 16, 2017
More than 30 years old, NASA’s FUN3D computational fluid dynamics code is powerful, versatile—and doesn’t run fast enough, even on a supercomputer.
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The Week in Technology, May 15-19, 2017

May 15, 2017
Unmanned aircraft in the news: BNSF flies true BVLOS; Satcom for small UAS; Swift flies over water; Snipe nano-UAS delivered; Indago quadcopter upgraded; Redkite wide-area imagery from small UAS.

Safety

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Australia Doubles Down On ATR Tail Talk

May 16, 2017
Although rare, the split-elevator scenario in the ATR 42 and 72 can overstress the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer due to a newly uncovered control system phenomenon.

Leading Edge

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Is There A Commercial Market For Large Unmanned Aircraft?

May 19, 2017
Manufacturers of large unmanned aircraft are struggling to get attention from regulators and customers as the small drone market sets the pace.

In Orbit

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Lunar Water Probably Exists, But Mining It Is Another Story

May 17, 2017
Finding usable water on the Moon would boost space exploration, but extracting it is likely to be a challenge.

Washington Outlook

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Trump Budget Likely To Meet Political Buzz Saw In Congress

May 18, 2017
Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.