A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev gets his first look at solid ground after 169 days orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (ISS). Flight engineer Artemyev, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, also a flight engineer, landed safely in Kazakhstan Sept. 11 in their Soyuz TMA-12M capsule.
Janice Starzyk of International Launch Services has been named president of the Washington Space Business Roundtable. She succeeds Stephen Ganote of Avascent.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Southwest Airlines updated its livery for the first time since 2001 as part of a multifaceted brand campaign. A single new logo—a stylized heart—now accompanies all internal and external communications, such as its “Rapid Rewards” frequent-flier program and its new booking website.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Obituary: Noel W. Hinners, a U.S. space scientist who helped explore the Moon, Mars and beyond, died Sept. 5 in Littleton, Colorado. He was 78 and had been suffering from complications of basal cell carcinoma.
A version of this article appears in the September 8 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Helicopter operator Bristow has accepted the first of 11 Sikorsky S-92 helicopters to be used on an 11-year U.K. government search-and-rescue contract. The Long SAR contract will begin in April 2015 and will see Bristow operate 22 helicopters, 11 S-92s and 11 AgustaWestland AW189s from 10 bases at civilian airports and airfields. They will replace the Sea King helicopters flown by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
A version of this article appears in the September 8 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. The U.K. has decided to retain its second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, reversing plans to mothball it, made in 2010. The decision, which had been expected in the next Strategic Defense and Security Review, in 2015, was announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at the end of the NATO summit in Newport, Wales. Work on the ship is underway at the Rosyth naval dockyard near Edinburgh.
A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. I feel qualified to comment on the editorial “Still Some Explaining To Do” ( AW&ST Aug. 11/18, p. 74) because of my 50-year career in government and industry, most of it developing and fielding fighter/bomber engines. My aggregate data on single-engine fighters support some universal truths:
