Content Archive: June 2009
Piccard team set to unveil Solar Impulse this month
The HB-SIA solar-powered aircraft, the first prototype of the Solar Impulse project, is to be unveiled next week on June 26 at Dübendorf air base, near Zur
Three decades of the cold war
On this 100th anniversary of the Paris Air Show French journalist Gil Roy continues his reflections on the greatest moments from the salon du Bourget’s ill
Back to the future for U.S. manned space flight
As the era of the Space Shuttle draws to a close, uncertainty hangs over the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) like the pall of smoke after a launch.
Aircraft
Airbus expects minor mods to keep A320 flying for years
Despite the fact that final assembly of the 4,000th example is now under way, the A320 single-aisle twinjet may be only at the midpoint of its production l
Aircraft
LHT undertakes restoration of Super Star Constellation
The Lockheed L-1649A Super Star was the queen of the skies in the late 1950s and it might again become a familiar sight aloft, according to Lufthansa Techn
Aircraft
Airbus engages all of Europe in A350 project
To the casual observer, it looked like just another chunk of concrete apron on Airbus’s sprawling production complex at Blagnac Airport outside Toulouse.
Summer of aviation love
The 28th salon aéronautique et spatial in 1969, promised something special.
Training Business Adapts To Downturn
As part of the launch of its “new reality” simulator and services portfolio, Thales assembled a high-level panel of simulation and training industry profes
Traditional pilots wings now have security role
Even in the era of ultra-high-technology security screening with growing reliance on techniques such as biometric identification, there is still a place fo
Aircraft
Raven radar equipped Gripen to fly by year-end
In late March Saab announced a teaming agreement with Selex Galileo to develop the ES-05 Raven active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the Gri
