Aviation Week's Check 6 Podcast

Aviation Week editors are joined by Maj. Gen. (ret) Lee Levy to try and answer the trillion dollar-plus question of what the outcome of the midterm elections really means for the U.S. defense budget.
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Check 6 revisits how a misconception of the MiG-25 transformed U.S. air power, until a Soviet pilot's defection revealed the truth.
Aviation Week & Space Technology subscribers can explore our archive here and read key Aviation Week articles related to this episode here:
New Interceptors Can Exceed Mach 2.5 (July 17, 1967)
MiG Case May Spur Japan Arms Buy (Sept. 13, 1976)
MiG-25 Pilot Lands Fighter At Hakodate (Sept. 20, 1976)

Listen in as PwC's aerospace team zeroes in on the supply chain and where it is most fragile in this special sponsored episode. 
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Analyst Scott Mikus joins Aviation Week editors to discuss third-quarter earnings and why an oversupply of narrowbodies may be looming. 
Read Scott's column here
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Aviation Week editors discuss the evolving European fighter landscape, introducing France's approach to its next-generation fighter it calls ACF, and the thinking around what will happen with Germany, Spain and the implication for the GCAP program, too.