On Nov. 8, the U.S. elected Donald Trump its next president, as well as a Republican House and Senate. Aviation Week editors explain how they think those dynamics will shape the nation’s policy and spending choices in the short term and the long run.
UAS in the news: Flexrotor on ice; Vanilla’s 10-day target; DARPA’s drone hive; Vahana test plans; Flirtey in Silicon Valley; DJI’s Drone SAR app; Airbus bolsters counter-UAS.
A J-20 that performed at Zhuhai may have been a production aircraft, but it also had ill-fitting panels and other features that did not look very stealthy.
Probably the biggest industrial advantage in setting up 737 completion and delivery centers in China will be freeing up space at Renton and Boeing Field. These sites face a rise in production rates to 57 a month by 2019, compared with 42 now.
Readers weigh merits of Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation and Aviation Week's coverage; some decry Lockheed Martin's timing of new tanker offering.
In this week’s Washington Outlook, the Pentagon acquisition chief defends procurement reforms; the FAA maintains a ban on flights over Ukraine; and insiders speculate who will lead Senate space policies.
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. has named Paul R. Lundstrom (see photo) vice president-finance/chief financial officer, based in El Segundo, California. He was vice president-investor relations for United Technologies Corp. Passur Aerospace Inc. has appointed Matthew A. DeLellischief growth officer and Louis J. Petrucelly senior vice president/chief financial officer. David M. Henderson has been promoted to chief product officer.
GE’s Advanced Turboprop will feature more additively manufactured parts than any previous engine, reducing 855 conventionally made components to just 12 3-D-printed parts.
DARPA program plans to field navigation-grade MEMS IMU by 2020 as a drop-in replacement for today’s tactical-grade sensors to extend the time for which precision weapons can fly without GPS.
From design tools to flexible electronics, advances that proliferate sensing and communications throughout aircraft, engines and the factories where they are made will result in profound design and engineering changes.
The newly revealed Avic Cloud Shadow appears to have a span of around 20 m (66 ft.), like the General Atomics Avenger used by the U.S. Air Force, though the Chinese aircraft is less bulky and probably lighter.
Accident investigators are puzzling over the causes of the first-ever failure of a second-stage high-pressure turbine stage on a General Electric CF6-80C2 engine that suffered an uncontained release of debris during the Oct. 28 takeoff run of an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER from Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
