Aviation Week & Space Technology

Reasons for the surge in mergers and acquisitions vary with the motivations of the involved companises.

Sun Flyer just might brighten the outlook of flight school operators while giving a lift to their bottom lines.

Junta Fukunaga has been appointed general manager of the Corporate Administration Div. of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. He was vice president of the General Affairs Department. Other recent job transfers at Mitsubishi are: Toshihiro Kawachi to deputy head from vice president of sales and marketing; Yugo Fukuhara to vice president-sales and marketing from group sales director; Kazuhide Shinoda to deputy head of the Engineering Div.

The U.S. has little to show for the millions of dollars it has invested over nearly a decade for training and equipping Yemeni counterterror forces.

AgustaWestland and Boeing battle it out to upgrade the U.K.’s Apache fleet.

Technology for the James Webb Space Telescope may be applied to follow-on observatories with almost twice the aperture.

Budget realities and better software may be thawing the U.S. government’s resistance to “non-traditional” space sensors to augment the high-priced systems it has developed and fielded over the years.

With more than 6,200 receivers in place around the populated portions of the world, Flightradar24 will now turn to the oceans to give the nascent surveillance provider more visibility of long-haul routes.

Governments in Singapore and Hong Kong are throwing their weight behind major airport expansions.

For almost 20 years, WestJet Airlines had a simple business model. But now it is expanding into turboprops and widebodies. Will it work?

JAXA tries again with quiet-supersonic D-Send; Lockheed adds UAS information to FAA flight services; U.K. extends X-ray inspection to large composites; Russia’s air-cushion UAS; Kickstarter crowdfunding bid for collision-avoidance system.

There used to be stealth aircraft and non-stealth aircraft, but new detection technology is making that distinction more complicated.

Helicopter manufacturers may be closing in on a long-sought goal: eliminating rotor-blade vibration.

Health and usage monitoring systems—a necessity for offshore operations—could soon appear on light helicopters, thanks to technology envisaged for wind turbines

Dragonfly Pictures Inc. is developing the Pelican for the precision aerial-spraying role and, potentially, military supply operations.

U.S. airlines are prepared to spend many millions in their effort to find a regulatory way to stop Gulf carriers.

This table shows runway incursions involving transport category aircraft from February 2009 until early this year at U.S. airports.

Aviation Week editors discuss Airbus and Boeing production: Is there an order bubble that may burst one day? They also talk about the 777 upgrade, the possibility of an A380neo and Bombardier’s CSeries.

Sandy Samuel has been appointed vice president/general manager of Lockheed Martin Commercial Flight Training, Orlando, Florida. She was vice president-operations for Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions and succeeds Jeffrey Wood, who will be moving to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.

Pilot shortage articles elicit comment about Norwegian Air; A-10 advocate reminisces; direction of U.S. space policy is questioned; stalls and airmanship are emphasized; frustrated passenger calls for airlines to pay more attention to passenger needs

Take China’s 10.1% rise in defense spending and make two adjustments: reduce for the effect of inflation, then increase for the effect of officers now being less able to embezzle the people’s money

The two dominant aircraft manufacturers are sanguine their robust orderbooks are sound; other industry analysts caution that they are being overly ambitious.

C-130 modernization receives congressional scrutiny, Bolden laments lack of cooperation with China on civil space and senator blasts FAA’s cyber security lapses.

ROTORCRAFT Airbus unveiled its H160 rotorcraft, a €1 billion ($1.06 billion) challenger to AgustaWestland’s AW139, which has dominated the medium helicopter market for a decade. Formerly the X4, the H160 incorporates advanced technologies such as a carbon-fiber airframe and distinct composite blades with hockey-shaped tips to lower weight and improve fuel efficiency. Service entry is targeted for 2018 (page 44).

Lockheed Martin wants to use ISS as a commercial springboard to the Moon and beyond.