Aviation Week & Space Technology

Readers discuss Iomax Archangel for CAS support; recovery of disabled SIA Boeing 777; pending aircraft order glut; funding hypersonics R&D.
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A series of diamond shapes over the ocean—areas where there is no air traffic—signals room for improvement in cruise efficiency for airlines.
Connected Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Leonardo DRS’s Bill Lynn on the company’s prospects for trainer success, the U.S. defense budget and persistent questions about the sale of the company.
Program Management

Nuclear-powered probe on track to get closest look yet at Kuiper Belt Object.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
BAE Systems and Gulfstream design inceptors that ensure each pilot is immediately aware of any flight-control inputs by the other pilot or the autopilot.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Computational fluid dynamics is the relatively new kid on the development block, but the old standby wind tunnels still play a key role in testing.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Turkey’s new family of missiles, Egypt asks for Archangel border patrol aircraft, Aerojet’s AR1 rocket engine on track to fly in 2019 and CAE to train UAV pilots in the UAE.
Defense

Contractors are learning to use the new president’s blowhard tendencies to their advantage.
Defense

Whether it is found in our Solar System or another one, discovery of another life form will mean we are not unique in the universe, and probably not even rare.
Space

By Adrian Schofield
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways remain on differing fleet and profit growth tracks in updates to midterm plans.
Air Transport

Special Operations Command looks to Future Vertical Lift to help win on the battlefield of 2030.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Richard Aboulafia
Improved export and U.S. orders, the T-X competition and a bridge to future fighter aircraft programs have put the Boeing unit in a better position.
Defense

Congress boosted funding for new aircraft by 15%, but overall defense received a meager increase.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois, Bradley Perrett
The hyper political sensitivity over air safety in China helps to explain the CAAC’s willingness to take the worldwide lead in mandatory HUD installations for airlines.
Flight Deck

By Guy Norris
The adaptive cycle engine as a new class of combat aircraft propulsive system in its own right is edging closer to reality.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The Tactical Ship-to-Land Missile will supplement the larger Hyunmu 3 cruise missile already deployed on destroyers. Unlike Hyunmu 3, it will be entirely under the control of the navy.
Defense

WestJet, JetBlue and Southwest make fleet decisions this year that could set them up for rapid expansion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Gryphon detects drones for FAA; Marines pick Finland’s Sensofusion; ScanEagle flies on fuel cell; Ligado/Harris team on BVLOS; other UAS news.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
The situation in the Comac C919 cockpit, monitored by ground engineers, was remarkably cool and quiet, says a program source, indicating the crew met little or no difficulty in the flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Regardless of the U.S. International Trade Commission’s final ruling, there is a pervasive sense that Boeing has made a tactical if not a strategic blunder.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Academic study of electric VTOL configurations suggests Uber’s vision for a network of on-demand urban air taxis is technologically feasible from an energy-source perspective.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
For now, hybrid jets that can switch between supersonic over water and subsonic over land are key to the plans.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing’s common-platform concept offers the U.S. Air Force variants of the twinjet family, including the newly developed MAX, to succeed all the aging military quad-jet fleets in line for eventual refinancing strategies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Republicans lobby for end to defense budget limits, SpaceX seeks regulatory changes for broadband constellation and will the airlines regulate themselves?
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Road map could deliver further improvements for piston-powered H120.
Aircraft & Propulsion