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 09, 2020
Ask the Editors: U.S. Air Force and NATO officials have discussed replacing E-3s using a distributed systems approach, but options are not fully developed.
Oct 07, 2020
Ask the Editors: Airbus is committed to the A330neo for a few reasons, despite slow orders. The larger A350 serves a different market.
Oct 05, 2020
Ask the Editors: Software has made great strides, but pilots are still needed to handle complex missions in the real world.
Oct 02, 2020
Ask the Editors: Subscribers can view the full archive of our print issues.
Sep 29, 2020
Ask the editors: Despite massive overcapacity of aircraft now, airlines do have incentives to retain at least some orders.
Sep 28, 2020
Ask the Editors: The entire air transport industry is concerned about ensuring the risk of transmission is at the absolute minimum.
Sep 22, 2020
Ask the Editors: MRO activity is down due to the outbreak of COVID-19, but the military segment has been spared the brunt of the blow.
Sep 21, 2020
Ask the Editors: The rest of this year will be relatively quiet for MROs, but then the return will start happening in 2021.