Aviation Week & Space Technology - 3 November 2014

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14 Who’s Where
16-18 The World
19 Up Front
20 Leading Edge
22 Reality Check
23 Airline Intel
24 In Orbit
25 Washington Outlook
71 Classified
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73 Aerospace Calendar

THE WORLD

16 Antares rocket explosion may have
its most profound reverberations on
Orbital-ATK deal on Wall Street

18 Initial operating capability for F-
B and C likely to slip due to modi-
fications and lack of maintainers

SPACE

26 Contingency planning, multi-vehicle
approach to supplying ISS will miti-
gate efects of the Antares explosion

28 Boeing begins assembling first test
CST-100 as SpaceX readies for
key Dragon pad abort evaluation

DEFENSE

29 Think-tank report recommends adop-
tion of UCAS family and larger role
for the Long-Range Strike Bomber

31 France under enormous pressure to

reduce its deficit, even as the mili-

tary takes on new commitments

32 France looking forward to delivery

of its third MQ-9 Reaper UAS in

early 2015, eyes MALE in 2025

34 Brazilian contract for 36 Gripens is a

turning point in the fighter’s history

and secures its long-term future

35 Raytheon funding a seeker upgrade

to the Tomahawk missile

to extend its life into the 2030s

36 Aegis system moving missile agency

closer to proving airborne IR sen-

sors can cue a target intercept

38 Boeing restructuring KC-

internal milestones to stay on

target for first delivery in 2017

AIR TRANSPORT

39 Lower fuel prices boost U.S. airline

profits, but carriers remain

wary about growing capacity

40 As Air France and Lufthansa strive to

cut costs, strikes inflict major pain

and the demand outlook worsens

40 Qantas says it has climbed back

to profitability, while rival Virgin

Australia remains firmly in the red

NEXT-GENERATION AVIONICS

42 Early customer evaluations are part

of Honeywell’s design process that

focuses on the ‘user experience’

44 Genesys has new strategy to bolster

its market share for integrated

cockpits in large Part 25 aircraft

This week, Aviation Week publishes two editions. On the lefthand cover, the first C

flight-test aircraft is in final assembly in Comac in this photo by Xu Bingnan. A report

updating development of the new jet leads of a series of articles on Chinese aerospace

in advance of next week’s Airshow China in Zhuhai (page 52). Also in both editions

are a special report on cutting-edge avionics (page 42) and a report (page 26) and

editorial (page 74) on last week’s Antares rocket launch failure. The cover of our MRO

edition shows a Tigerair artist concept.

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The U.S. Air Force’s secret Northrop Grumman RQ-180 is one of the most

important systems in the Pentagon’s emerging “Third Ofset” strategy.

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