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Essential to us. 12498-AH-H160-AviationWeekAD-190x267.indd 1 27/09/2016 15:51 610AWBIFC.indd 1 10/18/2016 10:03:24 AM October 24-November 6, 2016 Contents Volume 178 Number 22 Winner 2016 AVIATIONWEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY Digital Extras Tap this icon in articles in the digital edition of AW&ST for exclusive features. 7 Feedback 8 Who’s Where 10-11 First Take 12 Going Concerns 14 Up Front 15 Airline Intel 16 Inside Business Aviation 17 Leading Edge 18 In Orbit 19 Washington Outlook 71 Classifed Poland’s abandonment of a helicopter tender with Airbus has sparked 72 Contact Us a diplomatic spat between Paris and Warsaw. 73 Aerospace Calendar 32 SPACE 30 Royal Navy exercise provides 57 Norway unveils plans to participate 22 Tiangong-2 and Shenzhou-11 are experience with autonomous air, in the proposed F-35 joint buy and requests 12 more of the fghters verifying technology for China’s surface and underwater vehicles planned space station 58 Japan and Britain are assessing the 24 ESA and Roscosmos push Mars 10 likely performance of an AESA- equipped Meteor missile exploration technologies with ExoMars and follow-on rover 59 Japan’s defense ministry wants a hefty, stealthy, indigenous fghter Antares returns 26 to fight and with long endurance for 2030s Orbital ATK plans to use Cygnus cargo carrier as test laboratory 60 U.S. bomber chief advocates reengining and modernizing B-52 62 CST-100 crew module is delayed, to extend the feet’s life to 2050 but Boeing still plans to fy astronauts to space station in 2018 ROTORCRAFT 32 Poland reveals purchase of DEFENSE Sikorsky Black Hawks after 28 New battlespace will demand 56 Bell-Boeing is testing an engine- withdrawing from Airbus deal short-takeof, low-observable protecting, barrier-type air 32 Airbus is working to restore refueling aircraft, Lockheed says fltration system for the V-22 confdence in EC225/H225 after lift of the helo’s second grounding ON THE COvER The Dassault Falcon 8X and other new products are giving hope TECHNOLOGY to business aircraft manufacturers that they will be able to pull out 34 First fan set designed to reduce of market doldrums soon (see page 40). 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