Aerospace

Badr Al-Olama, CEO, Strata Manufacturing, Marc Allen, president of Boeing International, Dababa Al Khyeli, project officer, Boeing project at Strata manufacturing and Bernard Dunn, president of Boeing Middle East, North Africa and Turkey have celebrated the delivery of the 100th empennage rib ship set.

Consensus is that Trump would be more bullish on defense, but Clinton could boost defense spending above Obama administration plans, too.

With about 80,000 ft² of envelope to inspect during assembly and maintenance, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has developed a robot to scour the hull of its LMH-1 commercial heavy-lift hybrid airship for helium-leaking pinholes in the Vectran fiber.

Emirates SkyCargo has been named International Air Cargo Carrier of the Year at the Economic Times Logistics' Awards in India. Organised by The Economic Times, India's largest financial daily and the world's second largest financial daily after The Wall Street Journal, the awards aim to recognise excellence in logistics that can set benchmarks for the respective industries in India.

Jazeera Airways released its full-year financial results for 2015. The company recorded a net profit of KD15.4 million and an operating profit of KD13.6 million, reflecting a 2% increase from last year. The board of directors has recommended a 15% cash dividend totalling KD3 million.

Germany’s DLR prepares for a second series of wind-tunnel tests of an active rotor system using multiple swashplates to provide individual blade control and higher harmonic control to increase performance while reducing vibration and noise.

Abu Dhabi Air Expo has said it will be displaying 150 business aircraft during the event which will take place on March 8-10, 2016 at Al Bateen Executive Airport, reports the Khaleej Times.

"While mom would have preferred that I read the classics, she decided that Aviation Week was an acceptable compromise. More than 40 years on, I still haven’t read Moby Dick, but I do still read Aviation Week!"

"Having heard rumors about the B-2, I was absolutely floored when I opened Aviation Week to find a super-detailed foldout of the B-2 rollout. I’ve been a voracious reader of the magazine ever since."

I was probably the only 14-year-old who had his own subscription to AW&ST. But for me, the memory that resonates most has to be: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

"I maintain my subscription to AW&ST; it’s my window into the world of aviation and space. At first, I read other people’s copies until I could purchase my own."

NASA seeks X-plane ideas; Airbus, Dedrone team on counter-UAS; Erickson’s new S-64 rotor blade; NASA tests Pipstrel’s electric propulsion; Skunk Works robot inspects airship hull.

Birthday celebrations are fun, but from its inception as Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering our publication has always looked forward.

Bombardier has clearly done its homework, studying lessons learned from bleeding-edge programs like the 787 and also introducing its own innovations.

Industry experts say turbo-electric propulsion is still years away, so NASA should focus research also on gas turbines, sustainable jet fuels and propulsion-airframe integration if it wants to reduce carbon emissions.

The Boeing Company has reported second-quarter revenue of $24.8 billion on strong commercial deliveries and services growth.

In an Aviation Week interview, Avio Aero CEO Riccardo Procacci talks about future engine development technologies.

Facebook’s full-size UAV flies; Airbus debut’s hybrid E-Fan; Flirtey UAV delivers for 7-Eleven; Airbus Perlan glider heads to Argentina; Leonardo to fly active rotor.

Ten days after André Borschberg's arrival in Cairo following the crossing of the Mediterranean Sea, Bertrand Piccard took off with Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) for the final leg of the first ever Round-The-World Solar Flight – a pioneering endeavor considered impossible by many when initiated 15 years ago. Si2 is now heading to Abu Dhabi where it should land after a flight of two days and two nights, depending on weather conditions.

Farnborough International Airshow organisers have said US$124billion of orders and options for aircraft, engines and supply chain orders were confirmed at this year's air show.

Congress has allocated to the FAA more time and money to carve out specific regulations for unmanned air system operations.

Harking back to the U.S. Navy scout-carrying airships of the 1930s, SAIC and ArcZeon propose an airship carrier concept to extend the reach of small- and medium-size unmanned aircraft.

Optical comms development for DARPA can boost commercial crosslinks as well.

Support from the French government and China’s Avic is reinforcing Flying Whales’ confidence that its project will not be another failure in the airship segment.

Airbus A380 doors, cargo airships, communications satellites­ –all are early applications of ultracapacitor energy storage. Next step, more-electric aircraft and directed-energy weapons?