Fred George | Aviation Week & Space Technology Aviation Week’s pilot notes Boeing’s Leap-engined 737-8 has bigger displays and refinements such as fly-by-wire spoilers. Only a short training course is needed to upgrade from the 737NG. | Tim Wuerfel | Aviation Week & Space Technology Aviation Week’s evaluation pilot flies Airbus’s popular A321neo and finds a re-engined aircraft with more power, less fuel burn and emissions, and several system changes and refinements. | | Tony Osborne | Aviation Week & Space Technology Closely guarded Global Express could be destined for service with the UAE Air Force. | Richard N. Aarons | Business & Commercial Aviation Arguably, among the most challenging and potentially hazardous missions a pilot undertakes are post-maintenance test flights. | | Frank Morring, Jr. | Aviation Week & Space Technology By making launch more affordable, SpaceX hopes to open the door to wider experimentation in space. | Anthony L Velocci, Jr. | Aviation Week & Space Technology Regardless of the U.S. International Trade Commission’s final ruling, there is a pervasive sense that Boeing has made a tactical if not a strategic blunder. | | James Drew | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report Boeing has cautioned the U.S. Navy against getting locked into another 20-year aircraft development program as it reaches for F/A-XX, the service’s next carrier warplane. | Guy Norris | Aviation Week & Space Technology The stakes are high for General Electric’s GE9X testing program for Boeing’s future 777X twinjet. | | Lara Seligman | Aviation Week & Space Technology U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, call sign Crash, describes what it was like to fly the Raptor on its very first combat mission. | Guy Norris | Aviation Week & Space Technology Results of newly completed water-tunnel tests indicate that a cargo door-configured BWB design is viable, providing a vital boost to the project. | | |
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