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Share Your browser does not support iframes, but you can use the following link: Link Investors are putting billions into urban air mobility and space projects, hoping to strike the next Tesla. Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the trend. Dont miss a single episode. Subscribe to Aviation Weeks Check 6 podcast in iTunes,Stitcher, Spotify and Google Play. Please leave us a review. Below is a rush transcript of Aviation Week’s February 12, 2021, Check 6 podcast.   Joseph Anselmo:  �...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 15, 2021 at 3:14 PM DARPA’s LongShot drone, Northrop Grumman concept art WASHINGTON: DARPA plans to flight test a prototype of a novel air-launched drone — one designed to launch its own high-speed air-to-air missiles — as soon as the first half of 2024. LongShot is conceived as an autonomous, air-launched uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) that can serve as a sort of mothership, launching its own air-to-air missiles once in range of enemy aircraft. DARP...

7 From pilotless jets engaging in dogfights to huge undersea vessels ferrying troops, the Pentagon is pushing to increase the U.S. militarys use of automation. Defense moves are outpacing commercial automation efforts in the air, on the ground and beneath the waves as officials seek to counter American adversaries technological advances, according to current and former national-security and industry officials. That progress -- highlighted in cockpits managed primarily by computers, totally auto...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 12, 2021 at 5:06 PM DARPA NOM4D project image WASHINGTON: DARPA’s new project to research and develop novel materials and processes for manufacturing in space — in particular on the Moon — is stirring a legal and political dust storm about what DoD can and cannot do in cislunar space under the Outer Space Treaty. “From an international perspective, DARPA doing anything on the Moon looks bad. It raises suspicions about the intentions of the U.S. space...

Air Force Should Change Height Standards for Enlisted Aviators Too, Guard Official Says Maj. Gen. Craig Wills stands side-by-side with a 19th Air Force pilot to illustrate the varying standing heights of Air Force pilots to dispel the myth that there is one height standard for all Air Force pilots. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) 12 Feb 2021 An Air National Guard official wants the Air Force to change height restrictions for career enlisted aviators since its already done so for pilots. Chief M...

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As the U.S. Air Force (USAF) forges ahead with the next generation of American fighters, some in China fear that Beijing is falling behind in the race to a sixth-generation aircraft.

The tiny tech lab that put AI on a spyplane has another secret project February 11 A U-2 flies above the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California, Mar. 23, 2016. (Staff Sgt. Robert M. Trujillo/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — It started as a dare. When Will Roper, then the Air Force’s top acquisition official, visited Beale Air Force Base in California last fall, he issued a challenge to the U-2 Federal Laboratory, a five-person organization founded in October 2019. The team was establish...

Air Force study on future aerial refueling tanker could start in 2022 February 2 The Air Forces future aerial refueling tanker could be unmanned, like the Navys MQ-25 Stingray currently under development by Boeing. (Boeing) WASHINGTON — The Air Force could begin to lay out its vision for a future aerial refueling tanker, previously known as KC-Z, as early as next year, the head of Air Mobility Command said Monday. The service intends to conduct an analysis of alternatives for an advanced...

We’re “making lemonade out of lemons,” Air Mobility Command says.