| | November 14, 2014EDITOR'S PICKSAviation Week & Space Technology While the SpaceShipTwo crash investigation continues, the full impact on the vehicle’s design and operations, as well as the effect on Virgin Galactic’s schedule, remains unclear.
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Aviation Week & Space Technology Despite the landing’s historic success, the failure of Philae’s landing system, which ultimately left it stuck in a poorly illuminated part of the comet, is expected to hamper its primary science phase.
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Aviation Week & Space Technology A Chinese airlifter as big as the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules will go into service in the 2020s if the factory behind the project, Shaanxi Aircraft, is given a go-ahead, as expected. |
Aviation Week Intelligence Network The U.S. Air Force is barring retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula from conducting business with the government until early 2016 after investigators found he used his influence to keep a dying intelligence program alive. |
Business & Commercial Aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) is not just a binder that you keep on the shelf, it is really about changing the way we identify and address hazards.
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MULTIMEDIAAviation Week & Space Technology Although nuclear-capable missiles and the latest developmental and operational air force systems are absent, China’s policy of ensuring that there are multiple suppliers in all key areas results in many new programs at Zhuhai. |
Aviation Week & Space Technology Rosetta is the first mission designed to orbit and land on a comet. The €1.4 billion exploration campaign, the first to undertake a lengthy exploration of a comet at close quarters, builds on the first fly-bys of comets in the 1980s led by NASA, ESA, Russia and Japan. |
From The Archives As Avic revealed a model of the Y-30, a turboprop military airlifter approximately in the class as the C-130, we look back at an in-depth Aviation Week report on the Hercules from 1956.
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AviationWeek.com Using a medium that didn't even exist when Rosetta set off on its 6.4 billion kilometre journey 10 years ago, the European Space Agency took to Twitter to provide an almost real-time glimpse of the first probe landing on a comet. |
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Calendar of Upcoming Events | Aerospace & Defense Programs
November 19-20, 2014
Litchfield Park, AZ
MRO Latin America
January 13-14, 2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina
MRO Middle EastFebruary 2-3, 2015
Dubai, UAE
ATW's 41st Annual Airline Industry Achievement AwardsFebruary 25, 2015
Washington, DC
58th Annual Laureate Awards
March 5, 2015
Washington, DC
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