Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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A retired aerospace engineer and rocket scientist is seeking a patent involving the use of microwave energy to disrupt nascent storm systems before they are able to strengthen into hurricanes. Bruce Morton, who has held engineering, business development, and defense contracting roles with GE, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon,&nbsp;among others, is pursuing a concept that would use platforms in space to collect solar radiation that would be turned into microwave energy.&nbsp;That energy could be transmitted to earth and directed at tropical depressions.

 


The idea would be to use the energy to interrupt the cycle of upward and downward movement of air, water, and water vapor, causing it to break up and dissipate, he said. Morton estimated that each space-based platform could enable the output of thousands of megawatts. Increased interest in commercial space launches could make the launching costs of the platforms more affordable, he said.&nbsp;Excess microwave energy could be used converted to other traditional solar energy uses, Morton said.

 


While weather specialists have long been able to track hurricanes, past attempts at altering hurricanes have proved unsuccessful, including attempts to diminish their strength by seeding from aircraft, he noted, saying this provides a new approach. Morton, who is still forming a business plan for the technology, expects the patent process to take a few years.

Scientist Looks To Solar Energy To Disrupt Hurricanes

A concept would use platforms in space to collect solar radiation that would be turned into microwave energy and transmitted to earth to disrupt storms.

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