The Nordic carrier’s big ambitions include doubling revenue generated from passenger and cargo operations on Asian routes by 2020 and becoming one of the top three airlines in transfer traffic between Asia and Europe.
As business talks between Bombardier and Airbus fall apart, Aviation Week editors discuss why the new cutting-edge passenger jet is facing severe headwinds in the market—and whether Bombardier has the resources to see it through.
Darpa’s vanishing aerial-delivery platform; FAA to test UAV detection system; simulator meets aircraft in fused reality; space-based surveillance will save fuel on oceanic flights; more university research news.
U.S and U.K. military units will begin test flights using a ski jump ramp in the build-up to trials with the U.K. Royal Navy’s new, ramp-configured HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier in 2018-19.
The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are starting tests of an automatic ground collision avoidance system designed to prevent both air and ground collisions.
Defense acquisition analogy found lacking; is AW&ST 'leaking' too much?; proponent of spin-gravity studies; additional background on schlieren photography; decrying dangerous air show flying displays; mystery pilot with Lockheed's Kelly Johnson is ID'd.
NASA has named Renee Wynn (see photo) chief information officer. She will be responsible for strengthening the agency’s IT security and ensuring that information asset procedures are in line with all federal policy requirements. Wynn replaces Larry Sweet, who has stepped down.
The management/labor disparity is just one of many problems that plague airlines. Air France is not alone in this, but ranks high on the list of carriers in trouble.
In a key step toward opening up airspace to unmanned aircraft, standards developer RTCA has published interim standards for detect-and-avoid systems and command-and-control links. But they are only first steps.
DEFENSE The second of three at-sea development-test (DT) phases for the U.S. Navy’s Lockheed Martin F-35C began on Oct. 2 when two test aircraft, CF-03 and -05, landed on the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower off the U.S. East Coast. The two-week DT-II phase follows DT-I in 2014.
Oct. 19-22—Airports Council International-North America’s 2015 Public Safety & Security Fall Conference. Arlington, Virginia. See aci-na.org/event/5215
Bombardier’s sales pitch to Airbus for the C Series has failed. While Airbus complimented the aircraft, it was not attractive enough for Airbus to invest in the struggling program.
Options ranging from requiring registration of unmanned aircraft through requiring operator testing mandatory jail sentences for reckless flying raised at Congressional hearing on UAV safety.
