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Aviation Week & Space Technology, March 31, 2025

Cover of March 31, 2025, Aviation Week

The certainty bestowed by Boeing’s contract award marked an abrupt about-face from the doubts that have swirled over the last nine months around the future of the Next-Generation Air Dominance program.

Credit: U.S. Air Force Concept

DEFENSE

F-47 in front of U.S. flag
article

Revealing F-47 Contract Announcement Rewards Boeing, Upends Lockheed

Mar 28, 2025
The U.S. Air Force’s next fighter is finally in development, with Boeing in the driver’s seat for a program with aggressive schedule and cost targets.
Boeing NGAD concept
article

Podcast: NGAD Win Puts Boeing Back In The Game With The F-47

Mar 21, 2025
What does Boeing’s contract win for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation combat aircraft, the F-47, mean for the struggling aerospace company?
T-6A
article

U.S. Air Force Overhauls Pilot Training Again To Increase Pace

Mar 26, 2025
The service is sending students to pilot-training schools before they fly on Air Force trainers in a bid to address the lingering pilot shortage.
T-45C taking off from aircraft carrier
article

U.S. Navy Trainer Faces Uncertain Schedule As Air Force Accelerates

Mar 28, 2025
The Navy now has no target date for its T-45 replacement award as it continues studies for carrier landing practice.
Ghost Bat
article

Royal Australian Air Force Fleet Modernization Unfolds

Mar 28, 2025
From new missiles to intelligence aircraft, the Royal Australian Air Force is getting a makeover in 2025.

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

Airbus ZEROe aircraft
article

Airbus Insists Its Sustainability Efforts Continue Unchanged

Mar 27, 2025
Airbus has given some early insights into the basics of its future narrowbody. An open-rotor engine clearly remains its favorite option.
Korean Air Boeing 787-10
article

Korean Air Rebranding Reflects Post-Merger Ambitions

Mar 24, 2025
The brand and livery update underline the carrier’s global expansion plans following its absorption of Asiana Airlines.

SUSTAINABILITY

model aircraft
article

Industry’s Credibility Is At Stake In Clean Aviation Project’s Goals

Mar 25, 2025
Airbus is focusing on a “realpolitik” approach to accelerating innovation into products in the nearer term.
aerial view of Rotterdam port
article

Rotterdam Ramp-Up: Neste’s SAF Plant Is Growing

Mar 26, 2025
Renewable fuel producer Neste is growing sustainable aviation fuel capacity even if obstacles remain for wider uptake across industry.

SPACE

Mid-infrared instrument on James Webb Space Telescope
article

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s Close Pass Spurs Planetary Defense Wake-Up Call

Mar 28, 2025
Although no longer designated a threat, Asteroid 2024 YR4’s projected path has renewed calls for enhanced planetary defense and near-Earth-object missions.
man wearing virtual reality headset
article

NASA Tests AI’s Ability To Engineer A Spaceship

Mar 27, 2025
Teams of artificial intelligence agents could reduce engineering time from months to minutes.
Concept art of satellite over Earth
article

Space-Based Laser Links Are Taking Center Stage

Mar 25, 2025
Optical cross-link technology is maturing at a critical juncture, with government and commercial customers pouring billions into proliferated constellations.

BUSINESS

aircraft engine
article

Private Equity's Appetite For Aerospace and Defense Deals Is Growing

Mar 28, 2025
Dealmaking surged in 2024 and has continued at a brisk pace through the first quarter of this year.

TECHNOLOGY

Hynaero Fregate-F100 amphibian aircraft
article

The Week In Technology, March 24-28, 2025

Mar 25, 2025
New firefighting amphibian, virtual wind tunnel, hydrogen-electric bizjet and Chinese cargo UAS.

COLUMNS AND OPINION

fire at SPS Technologies
article

Opinion: How Aerospace Can Improve Its Risk Management

Mar 27, 2025
Industry could be making production problems worse by not managing risk well.
Chuck Surack piloting helicopter
article

Music Mogul Chuck Surack Is Reviving Once-Bankrupt Enstrom Helicopters

Mar 28, 2025
From traveling saxophone player to musical instrument mogul to helicopter airframer executive.
Rocket Lab Flatellite rendering
article

Debrief: Rocket Lab Aims To Jump Ahead With 5G Satellites

Mar 18, 2025
Rocket Lab is often considered an also-ran, but since 2018 it has accumulated a track record of nearly 60 successful launches.
Artemis II flight test astronauts
article

NASA Rescinds Pledge To Diversify Moon Landing Crew

Mar 27, 2025
In compliance with a presidential directive, NASA is backtracking on a promise to include a woman and a person of color on the Artemis III crew.