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| Podcast: How The A&D Supply Chain Is Coping With COVID-19 | Michael Bruno, Sean Broderick
Airbus has slashed near-term airliner production, and Boeing’s cuts could be worse. Air traffic has collapsed, and fewer aircraft will need to be repaired. Meanwhile, factories everywhere face the dilemma of how to stay in operation with worker absences as high as 50%. Listen in as we discuss how the supply chain is coping with COVID-19. |
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| COVID-19 Affects U.S. Army Aviation Upgrades | Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army is aggressively upgrading its legacy AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook and HH-60 Black Hawk fleets, but is encountering some delays in these efforts related to the spread of the novel coronavirus. |
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| | | ASK AVIATION WEEK EDITORS | | | The Aviation Week Network has been helping guide our industry through major crises’ since World War I. In that spirit, we have launched our new “Ask Aviation Week Editors” feature.
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| Aerospace & Defense Roundup: Apr. 9 | | Boeing Australia Loyal Wingman UAV powers up, USAF Bomber Chief prefers clean sheet design for Arsenal plane, a drone collision avoidance system, Europe's next civil aviation research program, and more. A roundup of aerospace, space and defense news. |
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| NASA Competition Seeks Smaller Lunar Science Payloads | Mark Carreau
“Honey, I shrunk the NASA payload,” is a global crowdsourcing initiative unveiled by the space agency on April 9 to significantly reduce the size of rugged instruments, sensors and experiments that can be launched to the Moon. |
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| ESA’s Mercury Probe In Gravity-Assist Earth Flyby | Thierry Dubois
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo, the probe it launched in 2018 to study the planet Mercury, is performing a flyby of Earth this week as a gravity-assist maneuver in its seven-year-long journey. |
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| | | FEATURED WEBINAR | | | | | | COVID-19, Airbus And Boeing: How Bad Will It Get? | New order and delivery figures for commercial aircraft are coming in and they’re grim. How long will it take for production rates to get back to “normal,” and what will that look like in the face of the COVID-19 crisis? What are the implications for suppliers? How about future product strategies?
Join Aviation Week Network's senior editors and our new data partner AVITAS for a wide-ranging, interactive discussion on the new crisis in commercial aviation and its ramifications for the future of aerospace.
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