May 19-22—National Space Symposium. The Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs. www.nationalspacesymposium.org/ May 20-22—70th Annual American Helicopter Society (AHS) International Forum. Palais des Congres de Montreal. www.vtol.org/forum May 20-22—European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition. Geneva. www.ebace.aero/2014/
Almost every conceivable way of taking off and landing vertically has been tried at least once, and most were judged impractical at the time. But technology marches on, and growth in the unmanned-aircraft market has brought with it resurgence in interest—and invention—in vertical flight.
Draper Laboratory’s Cygnus guidance, navigation and targeting team led by Ian Mitchell and including David Benson, Christopher Bessette, Louis Breger, Sungyung Lim, Piero Miotto, Richard Phillips, Russell Sargent, David Woffinden, Kurt A. Winikka and Renato Zanetti has won a 2014 Stellar Award from the Houston-based Rotary National Award for Space Achievement. The award was granted for development of software that enables the Cygnus spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with the International Space Station.
Airbus Group CEO T om Enders has received the 2014 Distinguished Business Leadership Award from the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank. The council praised Enders as a “visionary global business leader and passionate Atlanticist,” who is providing “important thought leadership on the future of Europe, on Germany and its place in the world, and on the centrality of transatlantic cooperation on security and defense to a more peaceful world.”
The results of the 2014 Top-Performing Companies (TPC) study are heartening but troubling: Industry profits soared nearly 10% but the improvements are concentrated among the largest organizations.
The price of carbon dioxide allowances (EUAs) under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) rebounded in April, having crashed to a nine-month low in late March.
It is nearly that time of year again, when Aviation Week runs the numbers and reveals which airlines are the financial overachievers and which are the basket cases.
