CONTENTS7/2017

4Information

Gripen E flown for the first time and the other news in the fields of air forces, air services, air transport, industry and astronautics

12Paris news

The 52nd international air show reported

16Vector enters the world of small launchers

Vector Space System´s rocket took off

18The end ofthe film

The very last reconnaissance Phantoms II withdrawn fromservice in Europe

22Air forces are reducing fuel consumption

Vortex generators are the used way

24The ATE company engaged in Czech air rescue service

Slovak Air-Transport Europe is operating in the CzechRepublic regularly

28Veterans

The One-O-Nine in Košice aviation museum

30Alpha Jets for common training

Successful French-Belgian NATO programme surveyed

36Civilian Hercules re-enters manufacture

Lockheed Martin is prepared to open a production line for the LM-100J version

40Development of the SLSrocket faces turbulent circumstances

The first take-off delayed

41Space objects launched and decayed

May 2017 space activities surveyed

42A common basis

Bell AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom combat helicoptersintroduced

48Aircraft 39-45

Manshu MT-1 Hayabusa – Manchurian light transport airplane

50Divided penninsula

Air force and air defence system of Korean people´s-democratic republic

54Irkut MC-21 flown for the first time

Latest Russian airliner in the air

56Small but efficient

Air force of the Montenegro army after joining NATO

58The fourth generation with the USAF

Recent combat types are to be modernised again and again

64Space state watching and Russia

Space Situational Awarness and Russian approach (Part II)

67The first Vision Jet arrived in Europe

The Cirrus Aircraft biz-jet certificated in Europe and the first example delivered to Swiss operator

68Aircraft 14-18

Hannover (Hawa) CL.V – German two seat combat biplane

70A legend already fifty years in service

Polish celebrations with utility MI-2 helicopter

76The last man from the Moon

US astronaut Eugene Cernan passed away (1934-2017)

78Unmanned Gremlins are arriving

Small aerial vehicles developed by American DARPA

81What´s the news

Embraer E190-E2

81From archives

Mohawk XPT-7

82Monograph

Fokker S.14 Mach-Trainer – Netherlands advanced jet trainer of the Fifties (Part I)

87You have asked

Early post-war days of Austrian air force

90Our review

We introduce latest aviation titles