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Conor Cimo can trace his interest in engineering back to his second-grade classroom in a Chicago suburb where he watched in awe as an F16 fighter aircraft broke the sound barrier. The video was presented by his friend’s father during a career day as an example what engineers are capable of.

Or perhaps it was his grandfather that sparked the interest, an eclectic engineer who had a yard peppered with aircraft engines and a barn filled with an entire broken-down airplane, towering stacks of old newspapers and a Ford Model T hidden beneath boxes of sandpaper.

Either way, before he even knew what it was, Cimo was telling people that he wanted to be an aerospace engineer. Instead, he ended up aiming a little higher than our atmosphere, choosing to join the space industry. This May, he will be receiving his bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

“It’s a new industry. There are all these rapid changes going on and there’s the ability to get involved with things that you really wouldn’t be able to do in aircraft design,” Cimo explained. “I also saw a really cool avenue for changing our environment and ecological status here with space technologies.”

3-2-1 Blast off!

As a freshman, Cimo quickly became immersed in all things space, joining the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (RPL) just a month after he started his first semester in the Spring of 2015, and the Collaborative High Altitude Flow Facility (CHAFF) as a research assistant the

Article source: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Reduce_Reuse_Rockets_999.html

The US-based aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, has announced it partnership with TAL Manufacturing Solutions, a subsidiary of Indian-based Tata Group.

The two firms signed a co tract on 14 March to produce advanced composite floor beams for Beoing 787-9/10 Dreamliner models.

The manufacturing will take place in Boeing’s facility in Nagpur, India, the Economic Times

Article source: https://www.manufacturingglobal.com/leadership/boeing-acquire-klx-425bn

Conor Cimo posing with the RPL’s Déjà Vu rocket prior to launch in Mojave Desert, Calif. Photo/Conor Cimo

Conor Cimo can trace his interest in engineering back to his second-grade classroom in a Chicago suburb where he watched in awe as an F16 fighter aircraft broke the sound barrier. The video was presented by his friend’s father during a career day as an example what engineers are capable of.

Or perhaps it was his grandfather that sparked the interest, an eclectic engineer who had a yard peppered with aircraft engines and a barn filled with an entire broken-down airplane, towering stacks of old newspapers and a Ford Model T hidden beneath boxes of sandpaper.

Either way, before he even knew what it was, Cimo was telling people that he wanted to be an aerospace engineer. Instead, he ended up aiming a little higher than our atmosphere, choosing to join the space industry. This May, he will be receiving his bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

“It’s a new industry. There are all these rapid changes going on and there’s the ability to get involved with things that you really wouldn’t be able to do in aircraft design,” Cimo explained. “I also saw a really cool avenue for changing our environment and ecological status here with space technologies.”

3-2-1 Blast off!

As a freshman, Cimo quickly became immersed in all things space, joining the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (RPL) just a month after he started his first semester

Article source: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2018/05/reduce-reuse-rockets/

Airline groups are attempting to rein in the distribution business of Amadeus, the travel technology giant. But the Madrid-based company said Friday that it is not feeling an impact — at least not yet.

During a first-quarter 2018 presentation to investors, Amadeus said it had seen no financial impact from the pushback by airlines against distribution companies, who are trying to get travel agents and online travel agencies to book directly with them.

“We need to manage this evolution very careful,” said CEO Luis Maroto of the new deals. But he said there had overall been “a positive outcome of the evolution of the different agreements that we have had with airlines.”

Amadeus reported its first-quarter 2018 earnings that showed modest, but steady growth.

Amadeus generated $644 million (€544 million) in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. It also grew its revenue by 3.1 percent for the period, year-over-year, to about $1.47 billion, or €1.23 billion.

Taken together, that means that its profitability represented 44 percent of its revenue — a figure that has been consistent for countless quarters.

The comparable figure for airlines worldwide is profitability representing 8 percent of revenue. For large airline groups, it’s a bit higher, but still about half of Amadeus’s level.

Jealous of those margins, some airline groups have recently begun coaxing travel management companies and other corporate agencies to book directly via new technology systems, kicking the middlemen out of the distribution chain.

Amadeus is one of only a few airfare distribution

Article source: https://skift.com/2018/05/04/amadeus-sees-no-impact-yet-on-airlines-pushback-with-new-distribution-models/