Announcements, Comments, and Acknowledgments

摘要

Asmy last January editorial for AIAA Journal, I would like to update and reprint a letter that appeared in the journal and was published several years ago. This was a special commentary on authors, reviewers, and editors. It was most appropriate then, as it is now.rnIt is always difficult to be an editor and to have to turn down interesting and perhaps controversial papers. This problem was made particularly clear to me several years ago by the controversy that arose over a rather unusual paper on a radical but important propulsion topic. As many of you know, we have Guest Editors for special sections and for specific papers. This is one of the more difficult letters that was written by one of our Guest Editors. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.