Boeing is testing a deployable wingtip feature, the first of its kind to enter service on any commercial airliner, that will increase the 777X's overall span for flight and retract for ground operations.
Even in the face of a shaky Brazilian economy, the regional carrier will continue its domestic expansion, and is even looking at more international flights.
The country’s efforts to develop an indigenous sounding rocket and nanosat launch capability advance, as Nammo plans a suborbital test flight of a new hybrid rocket motor.
As satellites and their antennas get bigger, they become harder to launch. Spacecraft-maker Space Systems/Loral thinks on-orbit self-assembly, reconfiguration and repair using an onboard robotic arm could make satellites more powerful and more flexible over their lifetimes.
Join our editors as they discuss the aftermath of the air show accident at Shoreham in the U.K. last week. Should there be tighter controls or is it time to end aerobatic displays by vintage military aircraft at air shows? Could it be the end for air shows as we know them?
Daryl Taylor has been named vice president-operations and general manager at Airbus Americas’ Mobile, Alabama, plant. After transition training at Airbus assembly facilities in Europe, he will take the reins from Ulrich Weber, who led the construction and commissioning of the plant, Airbus’s first in the U.S. Taylor most recently has been vice president and general manager of two GKN Aerospace facilities in Kansas and California.
Has Lockheed Martin found the right mix of advanced design and conventional thinking with its Hybrid Wing Body airlifter concept? Wind-tunnel tests confirm its efficiency promise and a demonstrator is on the cards.
Highly accurate performance tests on Lockheed Martin’s HWB airlifter design stress the National Transonic Facility’s capability to reproduce near-flight-like aerodynamic conditions.
DEFENSE After years of delays, the U.S. Army and Navy have awarded Lockheed Martin a $66.3 million contract to develop a dual-mode millimeter-wave-radar/semi-active-laser guidance section for the Hellfire II air-to-surface missile under the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile program.
