Carole Rickard Hedden retired in 2022 as Executive Editor for custom content and Program Excellence for the Aviation Week Network, providing custom content and research to industry executives. She also was Managing Editor of Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report. She joined Aviation Week in 1996 as a financial/business editor and has led special projects for more than two decades.
Prior to joining Aviation Week, Hedden worked for over 20 years in the news media and as a corporate communications leader at Fortune 100 companies.
Walter Moguel is typical in that he's not a stereotypical engineer. He doesn't fit the image of writing code in a cubicle all day, and he needs the fire created by change and risk.
There are many aerospace-related outcomes from the events of Sept. 11. At least two affect pilots in disparate ways. Air transportation is in a relative free-fall, resulting in 5,692 pilots placed on furlough. That's slightly more than 6% of the total 94,571 active airline pilots, the most pilots on furlough since the early 1990s. At the same time, Air National Guard (ANG) fighter pilots are seeing flight time escalate from the typical eight training sorties per month to as many hours as they can handle flying airspace-protection missions.
Kyle Franklin is just the type of person Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. executive vice president and general manager/JSF, has in mind when he discusses the Joint Strike Fighter program at Lockheed Martin. Burbage faces the challenge of hiring up to 4,500 engineers--some 60 per week each week for five years--should Lockheed Martin be awarded the JSF contract. Approximately 40% of the new hires will come straight from college campuses.
