Aviation Week & Space Technology

Launch deals follow agreement to jointly develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite.

Yingling Aviation is selling remanufactured Cessna 172s priced at less than half the cost of new.

Airline growth plans may not be justified by demand, some analysts believe, and could result in a capacity glut.

Electric propulsion for satellites is efficient, but low-thrust. An infrastructure of power-generation satellites in orbit would help speed the time it takes to change orbits

Unmanned aircraft in the news: hunting submarines in Canada; designing UAS to fight wildfires; forecasting weather with small UAVs; hybrid propulsion for small air vehicles

Wesley D. Kremer (see photo) has been named president of Integrated Defense Systems at Raytheon Co., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. He succeeds Daniel J. Croladermanwley, who is resigning and will depart Dec. 31. Kremer was most recently vice president-Air and Missile Defense Systems for Raytheon Missile Systems. Prior to joining Raytheon in 2003, he had been a U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer for 11 years, flying F-111s and F-15Es.

Future Events Oct. 13-15—MRO Europe. London. Nov. 3-5—MRO Asia-Pacific. Singapore. Nov. 3-5—AerospaceDefenseChain. Scottsdale, Arizona. Jan. 21-22, 2016—MRO Latin America. Lima, Peru. Feb. 3-4, 2016—MRO Middle East. Dubai. March 3, 2016—Laureates. Washington. April 4-5, 2016—Brazing Symposium. Dallas, Texas.

Aug. 25-28—9th Asia-Pacific Congress of Aerospace Medicine. Beijing. See apfama.org/2014 Aug. 25—10th Chinese Conference of Aerospace Medicine. See apfama.org/2014

General aviation community needs better airways; various takes on congressional inaction re: Ex-Im bank; reusability might not be key to reducing space transport costs

NASA demo will take first step towards deploying a system that can manage large-scale unmanned aircraft operations in low-altitude airspace.

Offshore helicopter operators are suffering from the steep decline in world oil prices.

Ryanair reconfirms interest in feeding long-haul flights.

With India’s original Rafale fighter deal scrapped after years of holdups, will its naval helicopter purchase see the same fate?

ISS crewmembers have taken a first, small bite out of the problem of keeping astronauts fed on deep-space missions.

The cost of ballistic missile interceptors, and the chance of failure, is high, but lasers pose their own efficiency and cost challenges.

How an aerospace metals supplier drew the interest of one of the world’s savviest investors and led to a mega-deal.

Aviation Week and its readers mourn the loss of a unique voice.

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.

Senator decries added airline fees; geometry helps figure out Ukrainian plane downing; FAA investigates Love Field; and a special exception in American Samoa

The A&D industry finds it can’t always get what it wants in the workforce; but it gets what it needs.

The Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry sectors continue to evolve and face their own special challenges:

Hear what disciplines are most in demand, salaries, sign-on bonuses, and the value that work/life balance plays in the compensation package.

Finland wants a multirole fighter and ground-based air defenses to replace its F/A-18 Hornet fleet.

Lasers, microwave weapons and railguns have flopped before. Here are some ways to stop that from happening again.

Volatile commodity prices and currency exchange rates threaten the defense spending outlook, but there are positive flip sides for governments and defense contractors alike.