Bomber lobby lays the groundwork for the kind of attack on its budget now threatening the F-35; new space bill allows citizens to mine the Moon for its water ice.
Nov. 30-Dec. 2—Defense & Aerosupply India 2015. Novotel Hyderabad International Convention Center. Hyderabad, India. See aerosupplyindia.com Dec. 1-2—IndiaMRO Aerospace & Defense 2015. The Lalit Ashok. Bengaluru, India. See indiamro.in
BUSINESS AVIATION Cessna is to enter the large-cabin business-jet market with the clean-sheet, 4,500-nm-range Citation Hemisphere, to fly in 2019. With a 102-in.-wide cabin, the aircraft is larger than the Citation Columbus canceled in 2009. The Citation Longitude (pictured), to fly in 2016, has been repositioned below the Hemisphere, with range reduced to 3,400 nm.
PowerPoint and whiteboards don’t cut it for teaching the new generation to fly, crew and maintain aircraft. This is what the military and civilian aviation worlds are doing about it.
New students will soon be able to learn with a virtual instructor in an immersive environment as part of a new private-pilot curriculum soon to be released by Redbird Flight.
Airbus Defense and Space is facing schedule challenges as it develops a European service module that will power the NASA Orion crew capsule, including documentation issues for Shuttle-era propulsion systems and NASA safety concerns over redundancy.
Airlines are broadening seating options, by upgrading their premium cabins and downgrading economy class. There is a danger, however, that if airlines go too far in either direction, they could drive passengers toward other options.
The Kenyan flag carrier’s traffic suffered from a series of attacks by Islamist militants in the East African nation and the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, but it was also damaged by an overambitious expansion plan.
GE's advanced turboprop represents an all-out assault on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6's dominance of the business and general aviation turboprop market, and it builds on the bridgehead established with the smaller H80 engine.
“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.
Darpa program takes commercial tablets, digital communications and high-performance computing and enables air and ground forces to coordinate close air support using shared situational awareness.
