Check 6

In a series of special podcasts, Aviation Week editors discuss the business of aerospace and defense with John Schmidt, managing director and global A&D lead at Accenture.

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson
SDA director Derek Tournear joins Aviation Week editors on Check 6 to discuss how its system of space tracking and transport satellites will revolutionize the U.S. military and the challenges it will face along the way.
Air Dominance

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau
Listen as Aviation Week editors Joseph Anselmo, Sean Broderick, and Jens Flottau discuss Aviation Week's analysis of proprietary aircraft operational data showing the precipitous fall in utilization for many aircraft workhorses.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau
Listen in as CEO Francisco Gomes Neto gives his side of Embraer’s breakup with Boeing, what he thinks of finding new partners, and how he plans to steer the Brazilian aircraft company through the COVID-19 storm.
Aerospace

How can the Aviation and Aerospace industry stay resilient and ready to meet increases while facing its bleakest forecast in history? Listen in as
Aerospace

By William Garvey
The founder, president and CEO of the Flight School Association of North America, discusses how the organization benefits student pilots as well as
Business Aviation

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
Listen as Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick and Guy Norris discuss the latest ups, downs and relocations at Boeing.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
Secretive startup Joby Aviation let Aviation Week’s Guy Norris witness a flight test of its new electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. He and
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois, Guy Norris
The company is making key technology choices early and still has massive challenges ahead: technological, regulatory and in convincing industry partners to participate.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson
Aviation Week editors discuss the roots of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance program, its use of digital engineering to speed development and some of the obstacles it may face in the future.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Jen DiMascio, Lee Hudson
With the commercial aviation manufacturers and suppliers still reeling from COVID-19, Eric Fanning, president of the Aerospace Industries Association
Defense

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Michael Bruno
Aviation Week editors discuss why Airbus and Boeing will need to further trim output to ride out the COVID-19 crisis. Don't miss a single episode
Aerospace

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

By Lee Ann Shay
Changes in military sustainment--including the push for agile development and the use of cloud-based software—could hint at broader shifts in the overall aftermarket. Listen as Aviation Week speaks to Accenture’s aerospace team talks about these developments.
MRO

By Joe Anselmo, Ben Goldstein, Helen Massy-Beresford
Airport testing centers are up and running in Germany as airlines look to screening to help revive traffic, but a similar effort in the U.S. is moving
Air Transport

By William Garvey
Amy Spowart, president and chief executive of the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, speaks about the organization based in the
Business Aviation

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
This week, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Benhken splashed down in their SpaceX Dragon capsule in the Gulf of Mexico after two months at the
Defense

A new surge in U.S. coronavirus cases has stalled a fragile recovery in airline traffic. Listen in as Aviation Week speak to Accenture’s aerospace
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Michael Bruno, Lee Ann Shay, Sean Broderick
Aviation Week editors provide their behind-the-scenes impressions from interviews with the CEOs of Airbus, Boeing, Lufthansa Technik and Raytheon Technologies.
Video Interviews

By Guy Norris
With the groundbreaking of Aerion’s new Florida headquarters approaching, company CEO Tom Vice talks to Senior Propulsion Editor Guy Norris about the design, development, and sustainability of its newly reconfigured AS2 supersonic business jet.
Sustainability

As an UltraFan demonstrator is prepared for 2021 tests, chief engineer Andy Geer tells Aviation Week editors about Rolls-Royce’s faith in a market recovery—and why UltraFan will be an engine for all seasons.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
The founder of the small-launch company discusses a recent failure of the Electron rocket launch, the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, and Rocket Lab’s evolution from manufacturing rockets to building spacecraft.
Defense

BCA Editor-in-Chief and Ganzarski discuss the potential for electric propulsion to make trips of 125-500 mi. more affordable for aircraft carrying 5-12 passengers.
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau, Bill Carey, Sean Broderick, Ben Goldstein
A recent IATA survey has shown that passenger concerns are flying are still paramount. Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick, Bill Carey, Ben Goldstein and Jens Flottau discuss what airlines and airports can realistically do to protect passengers from being infected with COVID-19 and what the role of governments should be.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio, Tony Osborne, Daniel Urchick, Brandon Patrick
The civil war in Libya is morphing into a fluid security situation. Russian military aircraft have arrived to support private contractors backed by the Russian
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Face it: you don’t really know your supply chain. Even when times were good in A&D manufacturing, regular deliveries required repeated heroics. Now
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