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FEATURES DEFENSE AVIATION WEEK EXPLAINS 20 | U.S. Air Force defines radical 39 | Answers to key questions about 18 | Hyper HAWCs vision for command and control the UK’s looming EU exit Scramjet-powered cruise missile emerges as new priority as 24 | U.S. Navy brings aircraft to its ROTORCRAFT Pentagon addresses challenges of newest carrier for the first time 42 | Leonardo short-circuits light helo hypersonic boost-glide missiles 46 | Belgian air power transformation development with Kopter buy 52 | Reshaping the Future will touch nearly every fleet 44 | Erickson’s improved Air Crane Wind-tunnel tests advance COMMERCIAL AVIATION could fight fires autonomously alternative configuration for future 26 | Back to the drawing board for 45 | Sikorsky finalizes upgrade plans fuel-efficient narrowbody airliner Boeing’s new midmarket airplane for the S-92 heavy-lift helicopter 56 | Coronavirus Crisis 28 | 777X flight-test campaign takes off, SPACE The outbreak has devastated giving Boeing a bright spot 47 | Commercial space and airlines Chinese commercial aviation and debate over spaceport needs will affect Asia-Pacific airlines due 32 | Boeing is years away from normal, to the regional travel slump and its supply chain may change 49 | Europe outlines plans for reusable 70 | Gatwick drone scare drives launcher demonstrators 60 | Singapore Airshow countermeasures deployments Options, challenges and ramp-ups 50 | European Space Agency struggles abound in Asia-Pacific aviation, BUSINESS with ExoMars 2020 schedule aerospace and defense 34 | Airbus pays a huge bribery fine, 51 | Sophisticated clientele drive avoiding investigation and trials changes in space-based sensing INTERVIEW VIEWPOINT DEPARTMENTS 36 | AAR President/CEO John Holmes 74 | Flight-shaming is gaining ground, sees lots of runway but you shouldn’t be ashamed to fly 5 | Feedback 16 | Airline Intel 6 | Who’s Where 72 | Classified 8 | First Take 73 | Contact Us ON THE COVER 10 | Up Front 73 | Aerospace Ahead of runs to evaluate the high-lift system, NASA engineer Greg Gatlin (right) and Boeing engineer 12 | Going Concerns Calendar Mike Beyar inspect an 8%-scale model of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing ultra-efficient airliner in the 14 | Inside Business 14 X 22-ft. 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Anselmo [email protected] any time the aircraft is not doing what Executive Editors Jen DiMascio (Defense and Space) [email protected] you want it to do when on autopilot, Jens Flottau (Commercial Aviation) [email protected] after a brief check to be sure that you Graham Warwick (Technology) [email protected] are in fact on autopilot, the first and Editors Lindsay Bjerregaard, Sean Broderick, best thing to do is to disconnect the Michael Bruno, Bill Carey, Thierry Dubois, William Garvey, autopilot and hand-fly it until further Ben Goldstein, Lee Hudson, Irene Klotz, Helen Massy- Beresford, Jefferson Morris, Guy Norris, Tony Osborne, analysis can be made. Bradley Perrett, James Pozzi, Adrian Schofield, It always pays to be suspicious of au- Lee Ann Shay, Steve Trimble ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES PLUS tomated systems. They are wonderful Chief Aircraft Evaluation Editor Fred George WHO DOES BETTER? things, but they can and occasionally Director, Editorial and Online Production Michael O. 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