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Aviation Week & Space Technology, January 16, 2017

VOL. 179 NO. 2 January 16, 2017

Safety

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Flying Airbus’s Augmented Reality System In A Mil Mi-2

Jan 11, 2017
The rugged terrain north of Tucson, Arizona, is an appropriate environment to sample the special sensor-driven symbology in this Airbus company’s 3-D vision prototype.
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New FAA Rules Let Technology Replace Natural Vision

Jan 10, 2017
The FAA’s new enhanced-flight-vision rule paves the way for airlines to install technology to fly as if in clear weather all the time, but will they buy it?

Technology

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WheelTug Begins E-Taxi Certification And Promises Pushback Savings

Jan 10, 2017
High fuel prices drove interest in electric taxiing. With oil prices low, pushback time savings is also a driver.
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Airbus To 3-D Print Airframe Structures

Jan 11, 2017
Airbus buys an electron-beam additive manufacturing machine to 3-D-print titanium airframe structural components for production aircraft.
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The Week In Technology, Jan. 9-13. 2017

Jan 09, 2017
Vanilla sets record; Latitude advances VTOL; Singapore drone traffic management; EHang air taxi progress; more unmanned news.

Face to Face

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Embraer Chief Sees Long Slog Ahead in Business Jets

Jan 09, 2017
CEO puts profits over market share and sees Embraer well-positioned for the “Uberization” of business jets.
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Embraer Defense Starts Local And Grows Global

Jan 11, 2017
CEO of Brazilian company plans to structure its defense unit with international sales of KC-390 in mind.

Manufacturing

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Safran Bets On Automating And Digitalizing Factories

Jan 12, 2017
Safran is hoping changes will help its factories design production lines of the future.

Commercial Aviation

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Airbus Sticks To Delivery Targets Despite Weaker Orders

Jan 13, 2017
The manufacturer believes it can get through the order downturn because its backlog is so large and it has increased production only slowly in the past.
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Boeing Defines Final 737 MAX Stretch Offering

Jan 10, 2017
The minimal change in design is expected to be cheaper and faster to develop and still compete aggressively against Airbus’s A321neo.

Space

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Lockheed Martin, Space Systems/Loral Building Discovery Mission Craft

Jan 12, 2017
U.S. companies will draw on their experience building scientific and commercial communications spacecraft to develop probes that will explore remnants of the early Solar System.
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DARPA Paves Way For Commercial Satellite Servicing

Jan 11, 2017
DARPA sees government and private-sector agreement on standards for rendezvous and proximity operations as essential to development of a successful commercial on-orbit robotic satellite repair service.

Defense

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South Korea Accelerates Chunggung PIP Program

Jan 13, 2017
South Korea’s missile-defense system, Chunggung PIP, will go into production in 2017, a year early. Deployment of the predecessor Chunggung anti-aircraft system near the North Korean border is complete
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U.S. Air Force Guided Nuclear Bomb Flight Testing Ramps Up

Jan 09, 2017
The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are making progress in their development of a guidance kit for the B61-12 nuclear bomb.
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Who Is Vying For Key U.S. Air Force Business?

Jan 10, 2017
The T-X and J-Stars competitions are finally underway, but who will respond and who is all talk?
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Sliding Retirement Of A-10s Keeps Maintainers Hopping

Jan 11, 2017
As the Pentagon postpones a final decision on the fate of the aging Warthog, the aircraft’s maintainers are challenged to keep up with demand from the field.
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The Week In Defense, Jan. 12-19, 2017

Jan 12, 2017
In this week’s roundup, Pentagon allows Raytheon to sell SM-6 abroad, Malaysia to receive light scout attack helicopters, U.S. Air Force’s missile-warning satellite prepared for launch and Morocco to add electronic warfare system to its F-16s.

Up Front

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Opinion: The End Of The Airbus-Boeing Supercycle

Jan 11, 2017
Airbus and Boeing guidance, until recently, indicated that they expect a 17-year supercycle, but the end came after 12 as the world economy slows.

Inside Business Aviation

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Air Hollywood, Where Flying and Filmmaking Have Partnered Since 9/11

Jan 12, 2017
Where you can order up turbulence on cue and barf bags are at the ready for however many takes are needed?

In Orbit

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Cubesat Testbeds Trim Risk And Save Millions

Jan 11, 2017
Tom and Jerry are more than an old-school cartoon, they are now an important cubesat experiment.

Washington Outlook

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Mattis Clarifies Threat Posed By Russia

Jan 13, 2017
In this week’s Washington Outlook, Mattis pledges to defend NATO, the continued scrutiny of F-35 costs and the FAA proposes a new way to navigate the East Coast.