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| | Michael Bruno, Sean Broderick
Airbus has slashed near-term airliner production, and Boeing’s cuts could be worse. Air traffic has collapsed, and fewer aircraft will need to be repaired. Meanwhile, factories everywhere face the dilemma of how to stay in operation with worker absences as high as 50%. Listen in as we discuss how the supply chain is coping with COVID-19. |
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| | Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army is aggressively upgrading its legacy AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook and HH-60 Black Hawk fleets, but is encountering some delays in these efforts related to the spread of the novel coronavirus. |
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| | ASK AVIATION WEEK EDITORS | | | The Aviation Week Network has been helping guide our industry through major crises’ since World War I. In that spirit, we have launched our new “Ask Aviation Week Editors” feature.
Readers can submit questions to our global team of editors. If we don’t have an answer, we’ll reach out to our large networks of experts to provide one.
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| | Boeing Australia Loyal Wingman UAV powers up, USAF Bomber Chief prefers clean sheet design for Arsenal plane, a drone collision avoidance system, Europe's next civil aviation research program, and more. A roundup of aerospace, space and defense news. |
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| | Mark Carreau
“Honey, I shrunk the NASA payload,” is a global crowdsourcing initiative unveiled by the space agency on April 9 to significantly reduce the size of rugged instruments, sensors and experiments that can be launched to the Moon. |
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| | | |  | Space isn’t just for exploring; it’s a critical domain to keep our nation safe. Whether it’s communications, intelligence, surveillance or early warning, At Northrop Grumman we’re constantly testing, launching and improving in space to ensure America has the ultimate high ground. Learn more about how we’re Defining Possible in space. | | |
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| | Thierry Dubois
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo, the probe it launched in 2018 to study the planet Mercury, is performing a flyby of Earth this week as a gravity-assist maneuver in its seven-year-long journey. |
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| | | | | |  | | | New order and delivery figures for commercial aircraft are coming in and they’re grim. How long will it take for production rates to get back to “normal,” and what will that look like in the face of the COVID-19 crisis? What are the implications for suppliers? How about future product strategies?
Join Aviation Week Network's senior editors and our new data partner AVITAS for a wide-ranging, interactive discussion on the new crisis in commercial aviation and its ramifications for the future of aerospace.
Friday April 17, 2020 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST | | |
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| | Guy Norris
Far from being retired, the storied U-2 is being upgraded into the U.S. Air Force’s first fully open mission systems compliant fleet. |
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| | Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Small narrowbodies have been losing market share to larger aircraft but lower travel demand may mean a second chance. |
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| | Guy Norris
Budget cuts to ground NASA SOFIA 747SP observatory, while obsolescence prompts replacement study for DC-8 airborne science missions. |
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| | Tony Osborne
Italy has become a hotbed of UAV development, but can Leonardo’s Falco Xplorer find success in a contested marketplace? |
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| | Michael Bruno
The stakes are getting high for Boeing, so giving equity to Uncle Sam may be the least of the worries facing the embattled OEM. |
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