AviationWeek.com

By Rupa Haria
A 1926 letter from the magazine's founder describes the ‘aeronautical celebrities’ who played an important part in the founding of Aviation Week in 1916.
Aerospace

Sponsored by Eastman
Russian carrier Volga-Dnepr’s switch to Eastman Turbo Oil 2380 in its Progress D18 turbofan engines has led to performance improvements and lower maintenance costs

By Jens Flottau
Despite some successes, the A380 faces an uncertain future, and the decision about moving forward with an A380neo will be a difficult one for Airbus.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Maintaining hydraulic fluid properties is a key part of ensuring aircraft systems perform as expected—and avoiding expensive surprises when parts fail.

See how Norwegian Air Shuttle's fleet has changed in the last decade in this infographic.
MRO

Sponsored by FedEx
The ECR (Export Control Reform) Initiative is probably THE major change to defense/aerospace compliance in our lifetime.

Sponsored by FedEx
Aerospace companies will face customs compliance challenges when their products are dual-use products for commercial or military purposes.

Sponsored by FedEx
The Aerospace industry ships thousands of different commodities, and customs requirements may be different in various countries depending on the commodity.

By Graham Warwick
As Sikorsky looks forward to the pending merger with Lockheed Martin, two advanced rotorcraft programs are progressing at pace.
Defense

WIN MS is a cable diagnosis company exhibiting at MRO Europe. The company was created as a spin-off of the European public research organization CEA, France.
MRO

Heatcon Composite Systems offers composite repair bonders that are used to control localized heat sources for a variety of repair applications, including curing of prepegs, resins and adhesives. The bonders typically support 'out-of-autoclave or oven' processing and are useful for remote repair. The bonder featured in the video below, the HCS9000B, supports cures up to 2000F and comes with a software security lock with password access.
MRO

Exhibiting at MRO Europe in London, Lista is a workplace and storage solutions company headquartered in Erlen, Switzerland. It offers customized storage in virtually any size or color with a 10-year guarantee.
MRO

Sponsored by Eastman
The Arctic Circle’s dangerously cold temperatures and constant threat of ice can produce some of the harshest operating conditions for all aircraft types, pushing performance and reliability to its limits. Nobody knows this better than the team at Wideroe.

By Lee Ann Shay
Before his keynote speech at MRO Europe, Bruce Dickinson discussed what lessons have Dickinson has learned from Iron Maiden Tour and how it applies to MRO.
MRO

Automated storage system that allows MROs to quickly retrieve AGS parts for hangar use.

See how Italian airline Alitalia's fleet has changed in the last decade through a fleet infographic.
MRO

By Guy Norris
NASA is moving forward in the real world with studies of concepts for an ascent vehicle to lift humans from the surface of the red planet.
Space

W. L. Gore & Associates introduces a new aerospace fiber optic cable, GORE, which offers a high-speed data transmission cable in a lightweight construction.

The U.S. Navy has released videos of the F-35C Lightning II undergoing the second phase of developmental tests aboard USS Eisenhower in the Atlantic Ocean.

Defense

Sponsored by GE Aviation
On September 24, 2015, GE formally opened its newly expanded Aviation facility in Veresegyház, Hungary.
Optimizing Engines Through the Lifecycle

See how Scandinavian Airlines' fleet has changed since 2005 in this interactive infographic.
MRO

To commemorate their 100th anniversaries in 2016, Aviation Week Network and Boeing have agreed to create a living archive of all Aviation Week & Space Technology editions, dating back to the earliest years of human flight.

Aerospace

See how Air Berlin's fleet has changed since 2005 in this interactive infographic...
MRO

See how KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' fleet has changed since 2005 in this interactive infographic.
MRO

We round up five of our most read stories in August, and your reaction to them.
Aerospace