This week’s Check 6 marks the start of a series of special features running before Aviation Week & Space Technology’s 100th anniversary in 2016 with a discussion of stealth and counter-stealth technology.
Much of the history of stealth has taken place under a shroud of secrecy that often hid important events from insiders as well as the public. It’s been a vast and often chaotic development, driven by technology, economics and geopolitics—and even the goals set 30 years ago have yet to be met.
With its foothold firmly in the U.S. as well as China, Airbus is on its way to achieving its expansion goals. President/CEO Fabrice Bregier discusses the ramifications of these moves.
By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo, Bradley Perrett
Perception matters. And the fact that Airbus is now building civil aircraft in the U.S.” puts it alongside Boeing or Lockheed Martin as a prime,” aerospace analysts say.
David P. Storch has been named president and Timothy J. Romenesko vice chairman of AAR, a global aerospace and defense company based in Wood Dale, Illinois. Storch remains company chairman and CEO, and Romenesko COO of Expeditionary Services. Steven B. Harrison becomes president of the airlift division and Randy Martinez AAR vice president-strategy and business development.
Average altitude performance would greatly limit the Chinese market for the proposed Sino-Russian AHL helicopter. So Avicopter proposes a design that would fly far higher than most heavy rotorcraft.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION An uncontained high-pressure compressor failure is suspected in the left General Electric GE90-85B engine of a British Airways Boeing 777-200ER that caught fire, prompting the crew to reject takeoff at Las Vegas McCarran Airport on Sept. 8. All 159 passengers and 13 crew on BA Flight 2276 to London Gatwick evacuated the aircraft.
Minimum fleet size, including minimum aircraft ownership, is one of the regulations already on the books the Ministry of Transport will begin enforcing more strongly.
Sept. 19-22—World Routes 2015. Durban International Convention Center. Durban, South Africa. See routesonline.com/events/175/world-routes Sept. 22-23—JEC Forums 2015. Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Boston. See jeccomposites.com/events/jec-forums-boston-2015 Sept. 22-24—AHS International Conference on Environmental Sustainability in Air Vehicle Design and Operations of Helicopters and Airplanes. Hotel Bonaventure. Montreal. See vtol.org/events/sustainability-2015
