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.
H-1 UPGRADE PROGRAM REINFORCING TAIL BOOMS AGAINST EXHAUST HEATING - The U.S. Navy's H-1 helicopter upgrade program is strengthening the tail booms on its five test aircraft to protect them against the hotter exhaust coming from their upgraded engines, according to Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR).
NASA's X-43C hypersonic de-monstrator and RS-84 reusable engine program have been canceled following a review of 140 programs inherited by the agency's new Office of Exploration Systems.
The first priority for Boeing's new Space Exploration Systems (SES) organization, headquartered near Washington, will be to help sell NASA's space exploration plans to Congress and the public, according to SES head Chuck Allen. "The American people right now are very skeptical, as they should be, because they don't have any details," Allen said at a briefing in Arlington, Va., March 18. "Many in Congress are skeptical because they don't have any details. Everybody [has questions] that there just aren't answers to yet. It's just too early.
