Aviation Week & Space Technology
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| Categories | Technology |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| First issue | 1947 |
| Company | McGraw-Hill |
| Country | United States |
| Website | aviationweek.com |
Aviation Week & Space Technology, often abbreviated Aviation Week or AW&ST, is a weekly magazine owned and published by McGraw-Hill. The magazine, available in print and online, reports on the aerospace industry and has a reputation for its contacts inside the United States military and industry organizations.[1]
The magazine started publication in 1947, as Aviation Week, and changed to its current title in 1960.
Other publications produced by Aviation Week are:
- Aviation Daily
- Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
- Business & Commercial Aviation
- Defense Technology International
- Overhaul & Maintenance
- The Weekly of Business Aviation
- ShowNews
Data products include:
- BCA Aircraft Network
- Aviation Week Intelligence Network
- MRO Prospector (MRO stands for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul)
- Top Performing Companies Benchmarking Tool
In January 2007, the AviationWeek.com website was "segmented" to provide channel specific content. Channels include Commercial, Defense, MRO, Space, and Business Aviation. Community features include forums/groups, user generated photos, videos, and blogs.
The Aviation Week Group also runs a series of MRO Conferences for the maintenance segment of the aviation industry in addition to workshops. Aviation Week, the business group, provides industry coverage (via news, data, analytics and conferences) of the global aerospace defense industry.
The publication is sometimes informally called "Aviation Leak and Space Mythology" in defense circles.[2]
[edit] Nuclear Bomber hoax
The 1 December 1958 issue of Aviation Week included an article, Soviets Flight Testing Nuclear Bomber, that claimed that the Soviets had made great progress in their own nuclear aircraft program.[3] This was accompanied by an editorial on the topic as well. The magazine claimed that the aircraft was real beyond a doubt, stating that "A nuclear-powered bomber is being flight tested in the Soviet Union. ... It has been observed both in flight and on the ground by a wide variety of foreign observers from Communist and non-Communist countries." In reality, however, the article was a hoax. The aircraft in the photographs was later revealed to be an M-50 and not a nuclear-powered plane at all.
[edit] References
- ^ Aviation Week & Space Technology aviationweek.com
- ^ "Military: The Mystery Continues". GlobalSecurity.org. 2005-04-27. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/continue.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
- ^ Soviets Flight Testing Nuclear Bomber, Aviation Week, 1 December 1958, p. 27.
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