Aviation Week & Space Technology
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.
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.
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