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.

Oct 28, 2020
Ask the Editors: Airbus’ strategy remains expanding its overseas market share, so the OEM is not likely to bring work back to Europe.
Oct 26, 2020
Ask the Editors: There is room for both and overlap between both, and who will win where will play out over the next decade.
Oct 23, 2020
Ask the Editors: Three former NASA administrators agree the U.S. space program needs to use nuclear propulsion.
Oct 21, 2020
Ask the Editors: A wave of consolidation in A&D has arrived due to COVID-19, the worst aerospace downturn since the dawn of the Jet Age.
Oct 19, 2020
Ask the Editors: Comac’s C919 is unlikely to appear in the airline fleets of developed economies in the next few years.
Oct 16, 2020
Ask the Editors: A failed joint venture around the C-390 has left doubt about future collaboration between Boeing and Embraer.
Oct 14, 2020
Ask the Editors: The gentle encounter is to last less than 16 sec.—and potentially only 5 sec.
Oct 12, 2020
Ask the Editors: New training protocol for 737 MAX pilots have yet to be finalized, but a Sept. 30 demo is a good idea of what’s to come.