Aviation Week & Space Technology

Japanese islands stand between China and free access to the Pacific. So Tokyo is concentrating on defending them.

Software update, expected by late August, could mean full icing flight envelope clearance for the fleet, if the FAA approves.

Can water at the Moon’s poles provide rocket fuel for human exploration deeper into the Solar System?

Agreement calls for experimental facility and sample carriers to begin traveling to the International Space Station in early 2017.

Want to get airborne to avoid congestion? Or land and drive to get through bad weather? Or just have fun in the air and on the road? There are several options on the horizon.

Marginal weather costs airlines billions of dollars related to ceiling and visibility issues; now rules and guidance systems on the horizon could greatly reduce that amount

Why German hypersonic researchers believe tapping into a tiny fraction of the global long-haul air passenger market could be a boost to low-cost access to space.

Southeast Asian carrier moves past its restructuring and looks to grow with new Airbus 320neos

Launch deals follow agreement to jointly develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite.

Yingling Aviation is selling remanufactured Cessna 172s priced at less than half the cost of new.

Airline growth plans may not be justified by demand, some analysts believe, and could result in a capacity glut.

Electric propulsion for satellites is efficient, but low-thrust. An infrastructure of power-generation satellites in orbit would help speed the time it takes to change orbits

Unmanned aircraft in the news: hunting submarines in Canada; designing UAS to fight wildfires; forecasting weather with small UAVs; hybrid propulsion for small air vehicles

Wesley D. Kremer (see photo) has been named president of Integrated Defense Systems at Raytheon Co., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. He succeeds Daniel J. Croladermanwley, who is resigning and will depart Dec. 31. Kremer was most recently vice president-Air and Missile Defense Systems for Raytheon Missile Systems. Prior to joining Raytheon in 2003, he had been a U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer for 11 years, flying F-111s and F-15Es.

Future Events Oct. 13-15—MRO Europe. London. Nov. 3-5—MRO Asia-Pacific. Singapore. Nov. 3-5—AerospaceDefenseChain. Scottsdale, Arizona. Jan. 21-22, 2016—MRO Latin America. Lima, Peru. Feb. 3-4, 2016—MRO Middle East. Dubai. March 3, 2016—Laureates. Washington. April 4-5, 2016—Brazing Symposium. Dallas, Texas.

Aug. 25-28—9th Asia-Pacific Congress of Aerospace Medicine. Beijing. See apfama.org/2014 Aug. 25—10th Chinese Conference of Aerospace Medicine. See apfama.org/2014

General aviation community needs better airways; various takes on congressional inaction re: Ex-Im bank; reusability might not be key to reducing space transport costs

NASA demo will take first step towards deploying a system that can manage large-scale unmanned aircraft operations in low-altitude airspace.

Offshore helicopter operators are suffering from the steep decline in world oil prices.

Ryanair reconfirms interest in feeding long-haul flights.

With India’s original Rafale fighter deal scrapped after years of holdups, will its naval helicopter purchase see the same fate?

ISS crewmembers have taken a first, small bite out of the problem of keeping astronauts fed on deep-space missions.

The cost of ballistic missile interceptors, and the chance of failure, is high, but lasers pose their own efficiency and cost challenges.

How an aerospace metals supplier drew the interest of one of the world’s savviest investors and led to a mega-deal.

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