Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion

Sep 04, 2025
Manufacturers and passenger-to-freighter conversion specialists are confident about air cargo’s long-term prospects.
Sep 02, 2025
Hydrogen-powered BWB; carbon fiber from algae; understanding lightning hazards; and storing CO2 in concrete.
Sep 01, 2025
Ascendance is testing structure, aerodynamics and propulsion as it develops its hybrid-electric, vertical-takeoff-and-landing regional aircraft.
Aug 29, 2025
Is free trade over in commercial aviation, or it is all just smoke and mirrors? Analyst Richard Aboulafia joins Aviation Week editors to discuss.
Aug 29, 2025
Advanced rotorcraft have been flown by Changhe and Harbin, helicopter manufacturers within AVIC.
Mar 09, 2026
Airbus Helicopters’ new H140 light twin-engine rotorcraft is set to be the next model in the company’s product line to receive the corporate VIP treatment.
Mar 09, 2026
Bell is preparing for a ramp-up in production rates as it sees growth across both its commercial and military markets.
Mar 06, 2026
Sikorsky has launched production of the first batch of upgraded S-92A+ helicopters as it moves the twin-engine aircraft into a new production phase.
Mar 06, 2026
Since Airbus announced it was delaying plans to develop a zero-emission airliner by up to 10 years, the landscape for hydrogen propulsion pioneers has changed.
Mar 05, 2026
Plans to flight test CFM International’s Open Fan engine on an Airbus A380 are accelerating following the initial meeting of the Safran-led Take Off project.
Mar 03, 2026
Leonardo Helicopters has given his strongest indication yet that the company is working on an evolution of its best-selling AW139 medium-twin rotorcraft.
Mar 02, 2026
Fifty-seven years after the first flight of the Anglo-French Concorde, is aviation really closer to returning to a new age of commercial supersonic travel?
Mar 02, 2026
Leonardo Helicopters has expressed confidence that it can finally bring its AW09 single-engine light helicopter to market by year-end.