AW&ST closes KSC writing branch

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...y_for_avi.html
Will the writers be replaced by some sort of transformational multi-role
writer ala' the JSF?

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...y_for_avi.html

They fired Craig Covault? You gotta be kidding. I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:03:13 -0500, David Higgins
wrote:


They fired Craig Covault? You gotta be kidding. I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.

Brian

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:03:13 -0500, David Higgins
wrote:


They fired Craig Covault? You gotta be kidding. I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.

It was always mostly Aviation Week and not much Space Technology. You
could tell from the different font sizes on the cover.

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:38:08 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:


I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.

It was always mostly Aviation Week and not much Space Technology. You
could tell from the different font sizes on the cover.

True, but it the ratio of space to aviation seems to have declined
over the last ten years or so.

Brian

Brian Thorn wrote:
True, but it the ratio of space to aviation seems to have declined
over the last ten years or so.


As it has in the real world, for that matter. ;-)

Pat

On Nov 22, 12:38*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:03:13 -0500, David Higgins
wrote:

They fired Craig Covault? *You gotta be kidding. *I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. *Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.

Lately, that has been an itch of mine too although my suggestion for a
new title might be "Aviation Management Week". The number of
engineering articles has gone way down while the number of articles
for managers, stockholders, lawyers and bean counters has gone up. I
will grant that you need money to make any of this stuff go, but it is
supposed to be a "Technology" publication, not a "Financial" one.

Geez . . . now I'm thinking about letting a (very) expensive
subscription die out.

End of grump.

John

John wrote:
On Nov 22, 12:38 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:47:00 GMT, in a place far, far away, Brian
Thorn made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:


On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:03:13 -0500, David Higgins
wrote:

They fired Craig Covault? You gotta be kidding. I've subscribed to
AW&ST for over 25 years, in large part for the space coverage. Perhaps
it's time to let that subscription die.

I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.


Lately, that has been an itch of mine too although my suggestion for a
new title might be "Aviation Management Week". The number of
engineering articles has gone way down while the number of articles
for managers, stockholders, lawyers and bean counters has gone up.


It has started to look like a series of press releases from the
Pentagon, airlines, and aerospace companies more than a entity unto itself.
I still remember those great hawkish ads from the Reagan era they used
to run: "F-15 Eagle: Shoots Down What's Up - Blows Up What's Down." :-D

Pat

Brian Thorn wrote:
I already let mine die. It was already getting close to just "Aviation
Week" and no "Space Technology". Now I'm glad I did, since they've
fired Mr. Covault.


They do have a website devoted to space news:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/space...?channel=space
Apparently, the ISS urine recycler still isn't working right.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
They do have a website devoted to space news:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/space...?channel=space
Apparently, the ISS urine recycler still isn't working right.

Pat

So proposed new title for this mag:

Aviation Unemployment Weekly and Space Urine Recycling Technology

?