The new variant takes the Airbus A330-900's maximum take-off weight (MTOW) to 251 tonnes, a nine-tonne increase on the previous 242-tonne figure.

The startup describes the flight from Camarillo to Hayward in California as “the longest flight to date for any commercially relevant aircraft employing electric propulsion.”

Fleet upheavals caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have an impact on the feedstock available for conversion.

HAPSMobile flies high; Islander automated; multifuel UAV engines; NASA’s X-59 slips; Russia targets quiet supersonics; fresh fruit by autonomous aircraft.

After losing to Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s inaugural transport layer contract award, L3Harris Technologies realized it must alter its strategy to win.

Proposed sales of both the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Finland have been given a green light by the U.S. State Department. 

Startup Boom looks ahead to flying its XB-1 scaled demonstrator in 2021 and going supersonic by year-end.

Listen as Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick and Guy Norris discuss the latest ups, downs and relocations at Boeing.