Commercial Aviation

DAS 2019
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Laurent Sissmann, the senior vice president for unmanned systems at Leonardo, discusses the company’s innovative concept to use the world-record setting Solar Impulse aircraft — the first solar-powered plane of circumnavigate the globe — as an optionally manned, long-endurance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Dubai Air Show. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS.

Training and Simulation Expo
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Rear Adm. James Robb, USN Ret., the president of the National Training and Simulation Association — a part of the National Defense Industrial Association — discusses key training and simulation messages for Congress at the organization’s annual expo on Capitol Hill, resolving the national shortage of military and civilian pilots, and new technology for education with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

VAGO'S NOTEBOOK
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You can’t be a real airplane lover and take satisfaction in seeing the end of a flagship aviation program.

That said, Airbus’ decision last week to halt production of the A380 by 2021 will bring an end to a polarizing program.

It was neither sleek nor particularly attractive, but it was an astonishing aeronautical achievement that was ultimately too big to succeed.