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By Daniel Williams
Ask the Editors: Aviation Week reduced its 10-year forecast for new commercial aircraft by 30%, representing a 34% drop in dollar value.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
As urban air mobility providers start formulating plans for maintenance, MROs are getting their foot in the door by building up electric capabilities.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
Ask the Editors: Minimizing an aircraft’s cross-section is not necessary for all missions, and many weapons can be carried internally.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky and Boeing flew Raider and Defiant demonstrators in formation, showcasing potential commonality between FARA and FLRAA.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Anticipating lower demand because of a global economic slowdown, analysts at Jefferies forecast 40% fewer deliveries this year.
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With so much going on within the aviation sector we want to know your views on the key topics and stories.
Air Transport

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The MRO is finding new uses for technologies it was already testing pre-COVID, such as augmented reality wearables and drones.
Emerging Technologies

By Jens Flottau
Returning to “normal” production is the wrong target for aircraft OEMs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Artificial-intelligence agent sweeps the board in simulated dogfights with human F-16 pilot.
Emerging Technologies

By Henry Canaday
The MRO market will be smaller during the virus recovery. Will it also start to get more competitive? Cash-short airlines have maximum incentives to
MRO

With so much going on within the aviation sector we want to know your views on the key topics and stories.
Air Transport

Worldwide turboprop utilization in July reached its highest levels so far in 2020, with 85,574 multi-engine flight hours and 61,510 single-engine flight hours, according to Aviation Week Intelligence Network flight tracking data.
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By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce LibertyWorks has completed rig tests on a new small, low-cost gas turbine core which has been developed using scalable design, manufacturing and materials techniques to meet the emerging U.S. defense requirements for limited-life or attritable engines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

With so much going on within the aviation sector we want to know your views on the key topics and stories.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
EASA plans to mandate Rolls-Royce-recommended on-wing inspections of certain Trent 900 interstage spacers to find cracked parts in the Airbus A380 engines before they trigger in-service incidents.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio, Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss new information learned about several U.S. hypersonic weapons efforts, including the revelation that the Air Force is studying intercontinental-range hypersonics that could be nuclear-armed and confirmation of the creation of a multimission platform with a multicycle engine that could be the path toward an SR-72 intelligence-gathering vehicle.
Defense

Concern over the threat of rogue drones disrupting airport operations seems almost quaint now during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Air Transport

By Karen Walker
Ask the Editors: Industry has done a superb job in putting safety measures first, but a lousy job at relaying efforts to the public.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alex Derber
Alongside cargo operators, one of the very few beneficiaries of the current crisis is likely to be aircraft storage and disassembly centers
MRO

Concern over the threat of rogue drones disrupting airport operations seems almost quaint now during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
FAA’s shift to emphasizing corrective actions over civil penalties for unintentional regulatory violations needs more centralized oversight and data analysis to determine its effectiveness, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of the program shows.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Ask the Editors: It is more destabilizing if our adversaries have them and we don’t.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
A small cottage industry set up to support one-off experiments is now transforming into a billion-dollar sector of the missile market.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Chinese domestic airline activity has virtually recovered to its 2019 levels as airlines have laid on more capacity than is profitable, in an apparent move to promote a revival in tourism and business travel.
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Initial drop of about 50% could be followed by prolonged and uneven climb back to prepandemic demand levels.
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