This is not your father’s aviation industry: video live-streaming and auto-editing platform Trace acquires small-UAV maker Draganfly Innovations to move into commercial and industrial markets.
Anticipating a “new era” of applications and services for connected cockpits and cabins, Rockwell Collins is positioning itself to profit from this trend.
Boeing is updating the standard rules for its airliner family brochure which will impact range, but this does not mean a change in actual performance, says the company.
Facebook using UAV to provide Internet service; inflatable space tower may enable SSTO; JAXA low-boom test a success; blood samples survive delivery by UAV; radar upgrade overcomes wind-farm interference
Tethered unmanned aircraft might prove to be an attractive alternative for use by first responders, newsgatherers, infrastructure monitors and disaster relief personnel.
Aviation Week editors discuss the latest news surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in March, 2014. If a “flaperon” found on the island this week is indeed from the Boeing 777-200ER, what does its location and condition tell us about the final minutes of the Beijing-bound widebody jet?
Five years later than planned, billions of dollars over budget and despite multiple attempts to kill it, the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is finally beginning its operational use with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Mark Jenks (see photo) has been named head of Seattle-based Boeing Corp.’s 787 Dreamliner program. He succeeds Larry Loftis, who retired on July 31. Jenks’s responsibilities will include reducing the $27 billion in combined unit losses that have accumulated during production of the aircraft. He was most recently program deputy general manager.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION Evidence is strengthening that a section of airfoil found washed ashore on Reunion Island on July 29 is a flaperon from a Boeing 777, possibly Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), which disappeared on March 8, 2014. Barnacles indicate the debris has been floating some time, and Indian Ocean currents suggest the part could have drifted from the arc west of Australian where the search for MH370 is focused. For updates, see AviationWeek.com/mh370
The Pentagon may be looking toward Silicon Valley for cutting edge ideas, but it still needs the leadership and experience of its legacy primes, including in a new role guiding the new players.
