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National Defense May 2007 Breanne Wagner	Air Force energy-saving plans face technical, financial hurdles The Air Force is proposing new measures to cut aviation fuel consumption by 10 percent within the next six years. Among the initiatives is to conventional fuel with synthetic alternatives.
National Defense August 2004 Harold Kennedy	Air Force Strives to Cope With Delayed Tanker Lease U.S. Air Force officials are trying to figure out how to proceed in the aftermath of the Defense Secretary's decision to postpone the leasing 100 Boeing KC-767A tanker transport aircraft as replacements for its aging KC-135 Stratotankers.
National Defense July 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force: To Save Fuel, We Must Change How We Fly The Pentagon in recent years has launched umpteen projects to promote the use of renewable energy and lower consumption of fossil fuels.
National Defense June 2009 Grace V. Jean	Training For War: A Multimedia Experience Just as training technologies for the newest fighter jets are going digital, so are those for one of the Air Force's oldest airplanes, the C-130 Hercules.
National Defense November 2004 Harold Kennedy	Guard Refueling Mission Proves a Bit Too Exciting To see what really goes on in the day-to-day life of the tanker fleet, a National Defense reporter rode along on a recent training mission flown by the 108th Air Refueling Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard.
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Tekla S. Perry	Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need?
Popular Mechanics December 28, 2009 Michael Belfiore	The Top 9 Airplane Tech Advances of the Last 10 Years The past decade has seen enhancements in everything from cargo planes to hypersonics.
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna	New Light Jet Could Save Air Force Money Leasing the Eclipse 550 would cost about one-quarter of the legacy trainer's cost per flying hour, said Mike Press, of Eclipse Aerospace. That price includes fuel and maintenance.
BusinessWeek May 8, 2006 Dean Foust	AMR: Making Every Gallon Count American Airline's all-out fuel-efficiency drive may help put it back in the black.
National Defense September 2011 Grace V. Jean	Air Force Special Operators Welcome New Cargo Planes Air Force special operators have been flying C-130 aircraft for more than 40 years. Now, finally, the fleet is being upgraded to the digital J-model.
Popular Mechanics July 2006 Jeff Wise	Flying Off The Drawing Board New technology is poised to transform aviation, finally making Personal Air Vehicles possible.
National Defense October 2009 Arthur J. Lichte	Why the U.S. Needs a New Tanker Aircraft age and a history of wing corrosion issues, fuel tank explosions, and antiquated internal avionics systems all point to the real possibility that exists for a massive grounding of the refueling fleet.
Inc. November 2003 Robert X. Cringely	Flight Club Forget the company car. Getting around is faster -- and less expensive than you may think -- in a private plane.
National Defense December 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Revisiting Requirements for Pilot Training Senior U.S. Air Force officials are debating whether a planned drawdown of the service's aircraft fleet should be matched by cutbacks to the number of pilots that are recruited and trained.
National Defense February 2009 Sohbet Karbuz	Defense Department Should Rethink Energy-Saving Tactics It is a pity that most of the Defense Department's efforts are concentrated on electricity, which accounts for less than 12 percent of military energy consumption, and not on oil, which comprises 78 percent.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2004 Brian Gorman	JetBlue's Flight Plan JetBlue may have a significant long-term advantage in its fuel-efficient strategy.
Popular Mechanics April 3, 2008 Brian Lisi	Boeing Soars With First Fuel-Cell Plane Test, but Don't Count on Hydrogen Flights Soon The first-ever manned aircraft powered by a hydrogen fuel cell successfully completed a flight in Spain this year.
National Defense November 2006 Grace Jean	Research Aims for `Game-Changing' Technologies Air Force research is focused on a multitude of high technology quests, including a drive to perfect a more economical alternative to fossil fuels.
National Defense January 2011 Grace V. Jean	Air Force Tells Biofuels Industry to 'Bring It' The Air Force within the next five years wants to be able to go on a shopping spree to snap up several hundred million gallons of alternative fuels produced within U.S. borders.
Wired July 2001 Carl Hoffman	The X Wars Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines -- if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon...
Salon.com November 22, 2002 Patrick Smith	Ask the pilot The science of weighing airplanes. And, how many things can go wrong with a jet before it's not allowed to fly?
The Motley Fool September 22, 2011 Keki Fatakia	Delta Goes the Boeing Way Delta plans to order 100 new Boeing 737-900 aircraft valued at $8 billion.
Aviation History July 29, 2004 Craig Roberts	It Flies Like a Hummingbird The road to wedding helicopter ascents with fixed-wing speed was paved with bizarre flying contraptions.
National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	Live, Virtual, Constructive Training Poised for Growth Advances in simulation technologies and data links will revolutionize the way U.S. fighter pilots train, according to Defense Department officials and members of industry.
National Defense December 2013 Dan Parsons	Debate Continues Over Role of Simulators in UAS Pilot Training There still is no agreed upon method of training new UAS pilots -- and keeping seasoned operators proficient -- for future conflicts where U.S. drones will be flying in contested airspace.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Pilot Stress, Aging Equipment Cause Angst at D.C. Air Guard Defending the nation's capital from an aerial attack might seem a good enough reason to give a wing commander whatever he needs. But it has not worked out that way for the aviators of the District of Columbia Air National Guard.
National Defense December 2015 Stew Magnuson	F-35 Program Ramps Up Training for Pilots, Technicians The F-35 joint strike fighter program is transitioning to a day when its pilots will come fresh out of flight school and the new jet fighter will be their first assignment.
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson	Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops.
National Defense December 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	In the Race to Be Green, Navy Moves to the Front of the Pack The Navy is positioning itself to take the lead among the military services in the use of renewable energy and in planning for future contingencies that may result from climate change.
Wired July 2005 Ron Berler	Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true.
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Barbara S. Peterson	End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS.
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget Cuts, Fuels Costs Could Spur Military Spending on Virtual Training The Air Force estimates it could save about $1.7 billion over five years by reducing flying hours by 5 percent and shifting more of its pilot and crew training to simulators.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Army Slow To Adapt Fly-by-Wire Controls for Helicopters Fly-by-wire technology has long been credited for enabling military fighter jets to maneuver through the air. The technology displaces the pilot's mechanical linkages to the flight control surfaces with wires, which will allow a digital signal to "drive" the helicopter.
Aviation History Sam McGowan	The Four Horsemen Soon after the introduction of the Lockheed C-130, four U.S. Air Force pilots came up with a great way to demonstrate just how maneuverable and powerful the new transport was.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 John Teresko	Boeing 787: A Matter of Materials -- Special Report: Anatomy of a Supply Chain The Dreamliner is far more than just another ambitious product. Its six-month delay is largely due to Boeing attempting to rethink its product development, production processes and supply chain management in one fell swoop.
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean	Reaper Drones Accomplishing Traditional Fighter Jet Missions Since they were first deployed as reconnaissance and attack aircraft, the Predators have been credited with helping to change the tide in counterinsurgency operations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John McHale	Boeing Prepares Fuel-Cell-Powered Airplane for Ground and Flight Testing Boeing researchers and industry partners plan to flight test a piloted airplane this year powered only by a fuel cell and lightweight batteries in an effort to develop clean technologies for aerospace applications.
IEEE Spectrum December 2011 Philip E. Ross	When Will We Have Unmanned Commercial Airliners? Unmanned planes dominate the battlefield, yet airliners still have pilot - -and copilots.
National Defense January 2014 Valerie Insinna	Fuel-Efficient Engine to Increase Range, Power of Army Helicopters The Army over the next decade plans to phase out legacy equipment and introduce a new, more powerful engine that will be able to take a full squad twice as far, all while burning less fuel.
Salon.com July 18, 2002 Patrick Smith	Ask the pilot Do airlines cut down the flow of oxygen in the cabin to save fuel? Can wind shear rip off a plane's wing?
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	Navy Pilots Eager to Replace Aging Workhorse Despite being difficult to fly, the C-2A Greyhound continues to endure thousands of arrested landings and catapult launches to deliver mail and cargo to sailors deployed aboard the Navy's largest warships.
IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Anthony Colozza	Fly Like A Bird Flapping wings could revolutionize aircraft design.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	Future Remotely Piloted Aircraft Will Do More Than Surveillance Military leaders are beginning think about concepts for the third-generation UAVs. In the future, they will want the drones to do a lot more than peer down on adversaries.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2004 Brian Gorman	Boeing Beware The plane maker needs to stay on its toes if it hopes to make the 7E7 a success. Shareholders are kept on edge.
Popular Mechanics August 1, 2008 Mark Huber	The 10 Best Planes from the Oshkosh Air Show From Lancair's $1 million turboprop kit to the "verification prototype" of Cirrus Design's single-engine personal jet.
National Defense September 2015 Jon Harper	Air Force Launches Competition for Revolutionary Turbine Engine The Air Force is hoping that a prize contest will yield a revolutionary new engine that doubles the fuel efficiency of current systems.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Seeking $131M For Energy-Saving Projects The Pentagon has asked Congress for $131 million to develop energy-saving technologies during the next five years to fund a mix of fuel cells, generators and engine technologies.
Salon.com June 28, 2002 Patrick Smith	Ask the pilot Do pilots sweat bullets during wind-whipped landings? And why are those darn windows so small?
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Technology Takes Off, Powering Hyfish Uav An unmanned jet powered by hydrogen fuel-cell technology, the Hyfish, has taken flight near Bern, Switzerland.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Energy: Small, Incremental Steps Do Better Than Sweeping Reforms The Air Force saved $700 million in its five-year fuel budget just by redirecting flights through shorter routes and choreographing more efficient itineraries for cargo deliveries.