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25 Years Ago in Aviation Week The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Feb. 19, 2001, issue featured an artist’s concept of Northrop Grumman's Pegasus X-47A unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) flying over the U.S. Navy's test facility at China Lake, California.
The Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine cover dated January 21, 1980, featured two Jetprop Commander aircraft; the 980 in the foreground and the 840 in the background, flying over Oklahoma. The accompanying feature was a pilot report for both aircraft.
The cover of the issue dated January 26, 1970, showed a boilerplate version of an advanced upper-stage hybrid rocket engine that developed 8,000-lb. thrust during a 35-second firing at United Technology Center's Coyote, California's facility.
As we welcome the New Year, we are thrilled to celebrate a remarkable milestone: the 40th anniversary of The Air Charter Guide! For four decades, we have proudly served as the definitive directory for air charter operators, brokers, and aircraft, connecting the industry and shaping its growth.
Thirty-five years ago, the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Jan. 8, 1990, issue featured a full-scale model of the General Dynamics/NASA ejector-lift E-7A short-takeoff-vertical-landing supersonic fighter design mounted 40 ft. above the floor in the then-new 80 X 120-ft. test section of Ames Research Center's low-speed wind tunnel.
On the cover of the Jan. 1, 1996, issue, we featured a Gulfstream G5, a new business jet that would carry eight passengers and was 14,400 lb. heavier than its predecessor, the G4SP. Read more about the aircraft and its test program on page 50 in our archives.
Pictured on the front cover of the January 19, 1976 issue was the RCA 24-channel communications satellite undergoing an RF subsystem checkout on a communications test range.
Henil Patel, a 2025 20 Twenties winner, is a Boeing manufacturing engineer on the 777-9 program. The award sharpened his focus and opened industry doors.
Aviation Week spoke with Chris Coker about how the company’s commercial spacecraft heritage is driving development of the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), which will serve as Gateway’s electric power source and maneuvering system.
The growth of airline activity in Nigeria seems set to continue, following an announcement by the governor of Enugu State, in the south of the country.
An Evergreen AW139 flies over appropriately picturesque piney woods on an evaluation flight, is featured on the front cover of the issue dated May 15, 2006.
Boeing has delivered almost 540 aircraft by the end of November; there is still an outside possibility it can hit almost 650 deliveries by the end of the year.
As of the end of November, Airbus had delivered nearly 660 aircraft; to get to its new target, the European airframer needs to deliver around 130 aircraft.
This eight-page feature of images, including double-page spreads of the Apollo 15 lunar mission, was part of the Special Report: Communications Satellites feature package in the issue dated August 23, 1971, on page 53.
