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Secretive startup Joby Aviation let Aviation Week’s Guy Norris witness a flight test of its new electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft. Listen in as Guy and Graham Warwick discuss what he saw – and why the air taxi market is for real.
 
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Sean Broderick

Boeing needs to find new customers for 13% of the 737 MAXs it has built but not delivered following order-book shuffling by customers prompted by several factors.
 
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Steve Trimble

The Switchblade 600 is designed to fly about 40 km in 20 min., then loiter in the target area for another 20 min.
 
Lee Hudson

The U.S. Air Force has halted delivery of one KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the 157th Air Refueling Wing because of “electrical problems,” according to a U.S. senator.
 
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As part of Aviation Week’s coverage of this year’s International Astronautical Congress and in recognition of the upcoming 20th anniversary of sustained human presence on the International Space Station, Aviation Week is hosting a webinar panel with former NASA administrators Dan Goldin, Sean O’Keefe and Charlie Bolden. 

Join us for an hour-long panel discussion about building, sustaining and growing human and robotic space programs, how the lessons of the past can inform the future.
 
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Graham Warwick

Despite much evidence to the opposite, the public’s image of hydrogen in aviation was set by the 1937 Hindenburg fire.
 
Adrian Schofield

The pandemic is causing new complications for the Indian government’s plans to sell flag-carrier Air India.
 
Tony Osborne

Despite a wafer-thin majority in Sept. 27’s fighter referendum, the Swiss government can begin its $6.5 billion fighter procurement.
 
Michael Bruno

Never have clouds, i.e., internet-based computing, been more welcome in the aerospace and defense industry.
 
Jen DiMascio

Doubling Reaper’s firepower; Rats undermine Triton comms; Will Kazakhstan buy A400Ms?; and Russia receives new Mi-28s.
 
 
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