Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Performing complex human tasks in stressful human environments is key to Darpa robotics
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Corrosion issue presents a major setback for complex NH90 project

By Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Boeing hopes further improvements will make the 747-8 more attractive for passenger airlines
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Propulsion revolution starts small, with prototype hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff UAS

Life support in space holds lessons for the Earth
Space

Regulators and industry strive to close flight-tracking ambiguities

By Bradley Perrett
China should have four budget airlines by year-end

By Antoine Gelain
How a ‘star of the show’ turned into a lackluster performer

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Sukhoi is looking for ways to make the Superjet more competitive

By Tony Osborne
Slow action on collision-warning systems cost lives, says U.K. Military Aviation Authority

Larry Hungerford (see photo) has been named president/CEO of Washington-based Terma North America Inc. He has been its vice president-business development for command, control and sensor systems, and was vice president-domestic business development for space programs at Lockheed Martin.

USN

USN Rear Adms. (lower half) Mark W. Darrah, Mathias W. Winter and Gordon D. Peters have been selected for promotion to rear admiral. Darrah will become program executive officer for Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation at Patuxent River, Maryland. He will succeed Winter, who has been named chief of naval research/director of innovation, technology requirements, and test and evaluation.

Kevin A. Bell (see photo) has been appointed lead executive for Northrop Grumman Corp. business in Dayton, Ohio. He retired from the U.S. Air Force as assistant to the commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center at nearby Wright Patterson AFB.

Candace Chesser (see photo) has been promoted to program manager from deputy program manager of the U.S. Navy’s Air Combat Electronics Program Office, NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. She succeeds Capt. Tracy Barkhimer, who has retired. Chesser was principal deputy program manager for the Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office.

Col. Larry Myrick of San Luis Obispo, California, has been named the next national vice commander of the Civil Air Patrol. He is an adviser to the CAP national commander, Maj. Gen. Chuck Carr. Col. Larry Ragland, who has been Middle East commander, has been named chief of staff to the national commander, Brig. Gen. Joe Vazquez. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jayson Altieri of CAP’s North Carolina Wing, has been appointed vice chairman of the CAP board of governors. He succeeds Lt. Col.

Glenn Hausmann (see photo) has been promoted to manager of FlightSafety International’s Learning Center at New York LaGuardia Airport from the facility’s director of standards and manager. He succeeds Ralph Lintelman (see photo) who has been named manager of the Learning Center in Wilmington, Delaware. Lintelman follows Barry Massey, who plans to retire on July 31.

Jeff Plant has been appointed leader of the American Airlines team at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. He was the airline’s managing director at Los Angeles International Airport. Plant succeeds Art Pappas, who will be retiring.

Zord Gabor Laszlo
Situation in Ukraine renews interest in modern air defenses
Farnborough Airshow

Zord Gabor Laszlo
Neighbors southwest of Ukraine are taking varying measures in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea
Farnborough Airshow

Sharon Weinberger
How Poland is reacting to Russian aggression
Farnborough Airshow

By Angus Batey
Europe revamps fighter systems and sensors
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Two years after he ushered his “Pilot’s Bill of Rights” into law to bolster private pilots’ positions during federal enforcement actions, the Capitol’s leading everyman-aviator advocate, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), wants to further amend the list.

By Michael Bruno
Long dreaded by the defense industry, a significant ramping down of war--related supplemental budgets has begun with the Obama administration’s outline of its fiscal 2015 request. The White House submitted a summary in late June—although not yet actual legislation—to lawmakers of its Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget for the year starting Oct. 1.

John Clements has become director of research, development and testing for Proof Research, Columbia Falls, Montana. He was weapons program manager at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

It is quite a telling experience to try and search for information about Rollin King on Southwest Airlines’ website. In the “Officers” category of the company’s official online history presentation, King is only mentioned once: “Rollin W. King, a founder and former president of Southwest Airlines, has been named Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of Panama Air International” (Nov. 26, 1991).