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Here, the STOVL variant of the 36 Alcoa and Hexcel unveil major Lightning II hovers above the airfeld at Farnborough, England, 3-D-printing investments to in Mark Wagner’s photo. Next up for the mammoth international accelerate product development fghter program are the complexities of logistics, maintenance and data sharing among allies (see page 29). Also in this issue: TECHNOLOGY U.K. defense after the Brexit vote (page 26), biometric screening 41 Design house ESAero uses airliner of airline passengers (page 55) and the future of Airbus’s A380 concept to explore challenges of (page 20). 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