Jeff has been involved in aerospace journalism since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining Aviation Week, Jeff served as managing editor of Launchspace magazine and the International Space Industry Report. He has been the editor and chief of Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report since 2007 and has been a regular contributor to Aviation Week magazine. He received his B.A. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - The National Full Scale Aerodynamics Complex at NASA's Ames Research Center in California is expected to reopen in the summer of 2006 under the management of the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). The largest wind tunnel in the world, the NFAC was closed by NASA in 2003 following the agency's decision to scale back its rotorcraft research. The Army had relied upon the NFAC for its full-scale rotorcraft testing, but use had declined significantly in recent years.
NASA's Prometheus nuclear power and propulsion program is being restructured to focus first on surface power generation for planetary exploration, and next on nuclear-thermal rockets, according to Administrator Michael Griffin.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Army Aviation Branch Chief Brig. Gen. E.J. Sinclair expects unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to be flying missions in tandem with manned Army helicopters by 2010. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and elsewhere, the Army is working on the integration of UAVs into the aviation branch, "and how we train those soldiers, how we get them to the level of proficiency that we need to," Sinclair told reporters during a press conference here May 11.
