Aviation Week & Space Technology

Capt. Charles “Bart” Roberts has been appointed vice president-flight operations for JetBlue Airways. He was chief pilot and managing director of flight operations at American Airlines.

Jeff Carr has been promoted to president from vice president-aerospace communications of the Griffin Communications Group of Houston.

Capt. Craig Drew has become vice president-flight operations for Southwest Airlines. He succeeds Capt. Chuck Magill, who is now vice president

June 16-20—2014 Eurosatory. Paris. www.eurosatory.com/ June 16-20—20th AIAA/CEAS Aero-acoustics Conference. Hyatt Regency Atlanta. www.aiaa.org

Patrick Coulter (see photos) has been promoted to director of business development for commercial training from manager of the Toronto Learning Center for FlightSafety International. He will be succeeded by Tasneem Hashmi, who has been the center’s assistant manager. And following Hashmi will be Suren Meras, who has been promoted from director of training.

Mark Middleton and Stuart Smith have become directors of business development for freight for London-based Air Partner: Middleton for Asia-Pacific and

Space solar power is free; getting it will not be cheap

June 10-11—MRO Baltics, Eastern Europe & Russia (BEERs), Sheraton Warsaw (Poland). July 16—Farnborough Civil Manufacturing Briefings, Farnborough

Andy Card is a former U.S. transportation secretary and White House chief of staff.

Span increases, revised flaps and new engine noise-reduction technology alter 777X’s look

Improved monitoring of flights will not be enough to prevent a repeat of MH370

Although the new Air Force One is likely to be a 747-8, the integration strategy remains up in the air

Steve Pitts (see photo) has been named general manager of Parker Aerospace’s Fort Worth-based Stratoflex Products Div. He was at different times vice president for the Boeing and U.S. Air Force business segments at Honeywell International, and had been general manager of its Commercial Aerospace Navigation Products Div.

The U.S. Air Force is rattled about the state of American rocket propulsion.

One airline’s business aviation success

Defense cultural change needs to earn support

Science closing in on extraterrestrial life

Upcoming flight test is shaping Orion design, Moon mission date

With Europe in the critical path, NASA targets joint Orion mission

Europe will consider alternate designs for affordable Ariane 5 successor

X-56 flight tests aim to take the fear factor out of aeroelastic instability

South Korea’s air force is unwilling to wait forever for the KF-X

Saab claims lead in gallium-nitride use

Breaking barriers between flight control, aero­elastic design could enable new aircraft concepts

Swiss populace votes ‘no’ on Gripen, forcing the government to look at new ideas