More about “Safety’s Top Ten” feature; the merits of manual flight skills; writing style and substance lauded; calls to expand MRO survey and to extend RD-180 use; weighing in on defense budget podcast.
Feb. 22-24—NBAA Leadership Conference. The Grand Hyatt. San Antonio. See nbaa.org/events/leadership/2016 Feb. 23-24—Aviation Festival Asia. Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Center. Singapore. See terrapinn.com/exhibition/aviation-festival-asia/ Feb. 23-25—Defense Logistics. Hilton London Metropole. London. See defencelogisticsevent.com/
C AE has appointed Andrew Rankin vice president-strategy and business development Asia-Pacific, for the Sydney-based company’s defense and security unit. A new advisory board to the sector will be chaired by Air Marshal Geoff Brown (ret.), former chief of the Royal Australian Air Force.
Though controversial, a House plan to spin off the FAA’s Air Traffic Control and Modernization into a non-profit corporation is moving ahead at full speed.
Acoustic sensors, radars, jammers, cyber weapons, net-wielding UAVs, quadcopter-snatching eagles, guided projectiles and laser weapons—the perceived threat from small UAS is drawing a wide range of responses
Authorities turn to detection and identification technologies to address the irresponsible and illegal use of small UAS. But can they take action against them?
Ways to prevent missile launches; lawmaker girds for fight against NASA chief; safety outfits issue battery recommendations; the rocky road to rocket replacement.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION Airbus flew the A321neo for the first time Feb. 9, from Hamburg, after a last-minute switch to an aircraft with CFM International Leap-1A engines rather than the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-powered jet planned. The Pratt-engined A321neo is still to be delivered first, by the end of 2016, and the CFM-powered version by early 2017.
NASA’s leadership prepares to do battle in Congress to justify plans to ramp up funding for aeronautics research to pay for up to five large-scale X-planes to demonstrate future commercial-aircraft configurations and technologies.
Eight years after the Chinese government launched development of the Comac C919, the three big state airlines that must become the prime customers of the 158-seat airliner still hold only tiny orders for the type. Why?
Russia’s goal of reentering the narrowbody market hit a speed bump when the prototype of its MC-21 aircraft encountered problems related to manufacture of its composite wings.
By Southeast Asian standards, Vietnam is impressively modernizing its military. Singapore seems to be more than adequately armed for facing either of the two countries that surround it, Malaysia and Indonesia.
