Graham Warwick | Aviation Week & Space Technology Airbus and its Tier 1 partners, led by GKN Aerospace, have invested heavily to make the U.K. a center for wing design and manufacturer. What will it take to keep that lead? | Lara Seligman | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report Despite its announcement that it will miss a major contractual deadline, Boeing is slowly moving ahead with developmental testing on its KC-46 tanker and is on track to begin production in August, according to the U.S. Air Force. | | Advertisement Juno Arrives! Join us at AIAA SPACE 2016 when Juno Mission Project Manager Rick Nybakken and Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton are expected to deliver the William H. Pickering Lecture. |
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