Lara Seligman | Aviation Week & Space Technology Lockheed Martin hopes to leave behind the F-35’s troubled past and shift the focus to the battlefield. The Paris display may not silence the critics, but it certainly changed the conversation. | ShowNews Lockheed Martin test pilot Billie Flynn put the F-35A through its paces at Le Bourget. The flight demonstration is carefully scripted to highlight the kinematic capabilities of the F-35A, particularly its slow-speed handling qualities. | | Guy Norris | Aerospace Daily & Defense Report Lockheed Martin says hypersonic technologies are now sufficiently mature to enable progress towards a demonstrator for its Mach 6-capable follow-on to the SR-71. | Frank Morring, Jr. | Aviation Week & Space Technology Looking back on a career illuminated by a love of words, science and the sheer excitement of the promise and peril of space exploration. | | Guy Norris | Aviation Week & Space Technology With a clear niche identified in the company’s product lineup between the 737 single-aisle family and its bigger jets, Boeing is saying more than ever about the gap-filling NMA. | Guy Norris | Aviation Week & Space Technology Engine makers jockeying for position in the early contest to power Boeing’s New Midsize Airplane, but wary of investing in the 45,000-lb.-class powerplant. | | Jens Flottau | ShowNews “I want to know what Airbus will do with the aircraft,” Emirates Airline President Tim Clark said on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show. | Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris and Lara Seligman | Aviation Daily A new widebody aircraft being jointly developed by Russia's UAC and China’s Comac could be a strong competitor when it hits the market in the 2020s. | | James Albright | Business & Commercial Aviation Even when flying “single ship” without another airplane a few feet from you, the imperative remains. It is you, the pilot, who must always fly the airplane. | John Croft | Aviation Daily The two pilots flying U.S. vice presidential candidate Mike Pence from Iowa to New York after an Oct. 27 campaign rally were immediately concerned for their careers following a runway excursion at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. | | |
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