Elytron Aircraft plans to begin flight tests this summer of a two-seat, proof-of-concept tiltwing aircraft designed to take off and land like a helicopter but operate from point to point at fixed-wing speeds.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.
Bucking industry trends, Didier Evrard, Airbus’s executive vice president of programs, was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Civil Aviation Laureate for bringing the A350 widebody to market on time.
Snowstorm shuts down Washington but fails to halt Aviation Week’s 58th annual Laureate awards ceremony, which salutes aerospace sector’s high achievers.
Carlos Kingston was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Defense Laureate for spearheading the MDA’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense team’s dogged pursuit to identify the cause and to ultimately cure an anomaly in the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.
The European Space Agency was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Space Laureate for getting up close and personal with a comet—landing a robotic space probe on its surface and gleaning a wealth of information.
Nextant Aerospace was awarded Aviation Week’s 2015 Business Aviation Laureate for introducing the concept of remanufacturing business aircraft to the community.
Airbus’s not so secret weapon is Chief Operating Officer-Customers John Leahy, who in his more than three-decade career helped the manufacturer climb from a very distant third-place spot to a parity position with Boeing.
David W. Thompson and a pair of classmates from Harvard Business School launched Orbital Sciences Corp. in 1982 to, as they put it, ‘bring the benefits of space down to Earth.’ The company, with Thompson still at the helm, continues to innovate and expand its vision.
Despite challenges from LCC expansion at its home base, Brussels Airlines seems poised to achieve profitability after investments and management improvements coordinated by its largest shareholder, the Lufthansa Group.
Two winners took home Aviation Week’s Innovation Laureate for 2015—Raytheon and Saab pursued different routes to achieve the same outcome—introducing gallium nitride power electronics to military radar and electronic-warfare systems.
Greg Morris recognized early in the game just how important additive manufacturing would become. His vision and drive helped spur GE Aviation on a mission that culminated in 3-D printing in its latest engines.
The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” came in handy for the pilots of a Boeing 757 flying scientists from Christchurch to Pegasus Field in Antarctica when fog forced a landing at well below instrument minimums.
South Korea’s LCH-LAH is supposed to become the leading 5-ton helicopter. But the base type chosen by Korean Aerospace Industries, the Airbus H155, has not been a strong seller. And there is not a lot of time to make big improvements before the targeted 2020 entry into service.
Dassault Aviation, long noted for both its civil and military aircraft offerings, may eventually have to opt for a purely civil product line due to diverse market and political influences.
Seeing a potentially major new market, rocket and spacecraft builders are positioning themselves to appeal to designers of small satellite constellations.
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