Aviation Week & Space Technology

The airlines back the idea of privatizing the FAA’s ATC roles; NASA picks its asteroid direction; McCain sets defense priorities; and Chuck Norris defends the A-10.

​ DEFENSE Korea Aerospace Industries has selected Airbus Helicopters’ H155 as the basis for the Light Civil Helicopter (LCH) to enter service in 2020 and derivative Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) to become operational with the South Korean army in 2022. The army needs at least 200 LAHs.

The last nine months were earth-shattering for Alcoa.

The seventh and final year of NASA’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation project is on target for a grand finale: the goal of simultaneous cuts in drag, weight, fuel burn, noise and emissions seems eminently doable moving forward.

As bypass ratios increase and engine cores get smaller, Pratt & Whitney comes up with a unique solution to the challenges of small scales inside future turbofans.

John Harrison has been appointed general counsel for the Airbus Group. He has been group general counsel of Technip in Paris and succeeds Peter M. Kleinschmidt, who will remain senior legal adviser to the CEO and the group general counsel. Pierre de Bausset has been named president of Airbus Group India, succeeding Yves Guillaume, who will remain until the end of 2015. De Bausset has been the group’s corporate secretary

The U.S. likes to talk about international defense partnerships, but the reality is that the home industry’s interests always come first.

Further cuts to Britain’s defense spending next year could mean the U.K. falls below NATO’s requirement of 2% of GDP, prompting concerns about the country’s defense aspirations.

What could spur Alcoa to pony up maybe $5 billion in less than a year? Aerospace and defense market share

Test flights are getting underway of a Boeing 757 with an actively blown vertical tail and new wing-leading-edge sections, which could pave the way for the wider use of natural laminar and active flow control technology in future airliner designs.

A new problem may have emerged to push the Long March 7 first flight into 2016.

Commercial fleet operator SES is talking to Lockheed Martin and other suppliers about the potential to service spacecraft in geostationary orbit.

Moth inspires agile thinking; aerospike rocket looks for liftoff; tethered UAVs for safer cities; Amazon a step closer to delivery drones and other unmanned news

Giving up Sikorsky is shortsighted and could prove to be more of a disservice than a boon to investors.

European ANSPs highlight progress on SES through common controller definition being developed jointly across four countries.

FAA’s deep dive into historical airline figures reveals how radically the industry has restructured over the past 20 years.

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.

Driving down the costs of electronically steered phased arrays opens up new commercial and military opportunities.

The Airbus story is inextricably linked with John Leahy’s career.

Aviation Week has presented a lifetime achievement award to David Thompson, President & CEO of Orbital Sciences.

Aviation Week editors discuss how private sector money and technological advances are revolutionizing space telecom.

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.

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.