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A roundup of most viewed content in May.
| Aerospace Digest: Most Viewed Content Top civil, military and space this month | | |
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| Tests Of GE XA100 Adaptive Combat Engine Exceed Performance Targets | Guy Norris
GE Aviation has completed initial test runs of the first full-scale XA100 three-stream adaptive combat engine, marking the start of a new chapter in U.S. military turbine engine development and paving the way for a new generation of variable cycle powerplants for sixth generation fighters. |
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| NASA Tests Techniques For X-59 Low-Boom Flights | Graham Warwick
Validating the quiet supersonic performance of NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator will require precise measurement of the shock waves generated by the aircraft and how they propagate through the atmosphere to the ground. |
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| 60 Years In Space | Jen DiMascio
A look back at Alan Shepard’s flight to suborbital space—a first for the U.S. |
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| Podcast: Giving Autonomous Aircraft A Moral Compass | | Will we ever be able to trust an autonomous aircraft? Mark Skoog, the principal investigator for autonomy at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, joins Aviation Week’s Graham Warwick and Guy Norris to discuss an effort to enable autonomous aircraft to be programmed with internal values and rules of behavior to ensure they are safe. |
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| Which Aircraft Will Congress Let The U.S. Air Force Retire? | Jen DiMascio
In a long-running drama, the U.S. Air Force and Congress have been at odds over which aircraft to retire and which ones to keep. Though the Biden administration has yet to release its budget, the Air Force’s hit list already includes the KC-10 and KC-135 tankers as well as the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV. |
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| General Aviation’s Electric Revolution | Graham Warwick
The list keeps getting longer as more and more electric-powered aircraft development programs target the general aviation market. Ranging from two-seat trainers to 19-seat regional aircraft, here is a look at some of those programs. |
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| China Leading Strategic Airlift Fleet Expansion | | Having operated a relatively small fleet of Il-76s in the 1990s, Beijing made repeated attempts to expand the fleet through the early 2000s—with mixed success—while the development of an indigenous strategic airlifter was pursued. |
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| | | FEATURED EVENT | | | | Aviation Week Laureates | Celebrate the people, programs and technologies that are changing the face of aerospace and aviation.
On October 18, Laureates will be awarded to winners in each category that embody the trailblazing spirit of innovation and transformation in Defense, Space, Commercial Aviation and Business Aviation. | | | | |
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