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Future Airborne 55 Capability Environment— 7 Feedback aiming for avionics software 8 Who’s Where portability between aircraft— 10-11 First Take for its Future Vertical Medium 12 Going Concerns Lift mission system, whichever 13 Up Front rotorcraft it selects. 14 Inside Business Aviation 16 Airline Intel 17 Leading Edge 18 In Orbit 19 Washington Outlook 63 Classifed 64 Contact Us 65 Aerospace Calendar THE TRUMP ERA 42 Turkey accelerates arming 30 Safran’s top priority in moving the 20 What to watch in aviation, of indigenous tactical UAVs, Leap engine program forward is targeting Kurdish militants aerospace and defense under a to reduce supply chain costs new U.S. administration 34 31 Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X may 22 European leaders wonder which be stretched further, into ultra- Trump posturing will become high-capacity territory policy and which will fade away 52 Faltering demand and political DEFENSE uncertainty take a toll on profts of 24 U.S. Air Force F-35s prepare for Emirates and Turkish Airlines frst overseas deployment as part of theater security package in 2017 SPACE China’s Casic 26 Raytheon demos high-power 32 is moving into the microwave technology that could launcher and propellant domains reduce military threat from drones of sibling state group CASC COMMERCIAL AVIATION 34 Webb Telescope will have grapple 41 RAF Eurofghter Typhoons 28 CFM assembly sites are readying prevailed in exercise against for an unprecedented production targets for in-space repair, but Malaysian Flankers, UK says increase as Leap engine rates rise NASA does not plan to use them ON THE COVER Lockheed Martin Sikorsky’s S-76B SARA autonomy testbed fies with a modifed Cessna Caravan over the ground-station van at Poughkeepsie, New York, in a demonstration of advanced cockpit automation under DARPA’s ALIAS program (page 57). Sikorsky photograph by Ted Carlson. Elsewhere in this issue are columns and analysis of the implications of Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president (pages 13, 16, 18-22 and 66), a special report on the growing practice of hiring contractors to test the mettle of military pilots (page 36) and a look at a truly portable and reusable software developed for airborne applications (page 55). Aviation Week publishes a digital edition every week. 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