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Aviation Week editors discuss what they heard at an event in August.
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Carole Rickard Hedden, Michael Bruno, Jen DiMascio

Program managers are in the middle of the maelstrom, wrestling with issues many have never dealt with in their careers. Aviation Week editors discuss what they heard at the 2022 Program Excellence Evaluation Team meeting in August.
 
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Irene Klotz

NASA on Aug. 25 was on track to begin the two-day launch countdown for its first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, leading to a launch attempt at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29 from Kennedy Space Center.
 
From Chinese Y-20 airlifter to make European debut in Austria to Pentagon outlining plan to mitigate civilian casualties. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.
 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Guy Norris

Aviation Week flew aboard Northrop Grumman’s Stargazer—the world’s last flying Lockheed L-1011 TriStar—to experience the procedures involved in air-launching a rocket.
 
 
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Friday, Sept 02, 2022
10:00 EDT | 15:00 BST |16:00 CEST

The approach to human-machine teaming in aerial combat continues to evolve.
New concepts often show a shift toward a new class of advanced autonomous wingmen “untethered” from the piloted fighters and bombers in a strike package, along with an array of multirole assets affordable enough to be expended as if they were munitions.

In this webinar, we will discuss the concepts emerging from government and industry leading to a new future of autonomous aircraft.
 
 
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Graham Warwick

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
 
Jens Flottau

A new right-wing Italian government could blow the ITA Airways' sale.
 
Ben Goldstein

American carriers have experienced record yields, but the trend is reversing after the summer boom.
 
Guy Norris

The 737-10 certification effort enters its final phase as Boeing prepares a third aircraft for the test campaign.
 
Guy Norris, Garrett Reim

Commercial, allied and partner-nation satellites seen as potential sensor nodes in space domain awareness network.
 
 
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