Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2017, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.

A340 MSN001, modified to be the Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator for Europe (BLADE), will soon begin a flight-test campaign to show that laminar flow can reduce fuel burn.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) has reached a definitive agreement to buy Rockwell Collins for $30 billion, a mega-merger of aircraft parts and systems suppliers that will reshape the global aerospace manufacturing landscape.

Guy Norris, Aviation Week Senior editor, talks to us from El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina where Airbus hopes to witness the Perlan Mission II achieve a new world altitude record.

Dubai-based Emirates and Australian carrier Qantas are seeking clearance to extend their partnership for another five years, with Qantas switching its London flights to operate via Singapore rather than Dubai.

New multirotor unmanned aircraft are coming onto the market. They combine vertical-takeoff-and-landing ease of use with longer flight times to increase productivity on commercial missions.

Willard Custer’s mid-20th century channel wing is back on the drawing board as a possible way to combine vertical flight with efficient cruise.

The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.