Ask the Editors
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting global economic crisis have creating daunting challenges across the aerospace and aviation industries. Companies large and small face myriad questions on how to ride out the storm and position themselves to thrive when better times return.
To help fill that void, we are launching our new “Ask The Editors” feature. Readers can submit questions to our global team of editors. If we don’t have an answer, we’ll reach out to our large networks of experts to provide one.
Here are some of the best questions posed by readers and our answers.
May 21, 2020
Ask the Editors: Instead of the mature horizontal model of today’s engine market, electric propulsion has been vertically integrated.
May 20, 2020
Ask the Editors: Anything that lowers trip costs is a benefit to carriers right now, with a predicted shift to lower-capacity aircraft.
May 19, 2020
Ask the Editors: Available evidence does not give specific clues, but the B-52 ceiling and U-2 operating altitude provide reference.
May 18, 2020
Ask the Editors: With availability of Fed-backed private sector funding, large aerospace companies are unlikely to rely on CARES Act.
May 15, 2020
Ask the Editors: Vacation travel will likely come back more quickly than business travel, but the recovery will come in phases.
May 14, 2020
Ask the Editors: Low-energy nuclear reactions, compact fusion reactors and advanced small modular reactors are among concepts being tested.
May 13, 2020
Ask the Editors: As airlines gain more leverage with lessors on aircraft maintenance, use of such parts may increase.
May 12, 2020
Ask the Editors: Thales and Safran have different focuses, and Safran’s defense business is much smaller than Thales’.