With the clock ticking down to the end of the year, Boeing appears confident it will still secure the almost 260 orders it needs to maintain the…

With the UAE's fighter requirement still unfilled, a sale to Kuwait agreed in principle, and possible interest from other nations in the region, Typhoon might once again be the talk of the show.

Aviation Week Senior Editor Guy Norris has been selected to receive the 2015 Lauren D. Lyman Award for outstanding achievement in aerospace communications.

Dubai will be hosting a second aviation event at the end of this month when the World Air Games arrives on November 30. That’s why Canadian aircraft manufacturer, Viking Air is delivering a new-built DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 to Skydive Dubai for taking competing parachutists aloft.

Interoperability is the watchword for the next phase of development of the Patriot missile-defense system. And it is Patriot users in the Middle East who are leading the way.

Middle Eastern business aviation activity is pretty resilient, say many in the industry, but while some try to talk the market up, others working at the sharp end cast a relatively gloomy picture and await an upturn in activity.

Two years on and the German-UAE joint venture between DC Aviation and Al-Futtaim is still the only standalone fixed-base and maintenance business aviation company at Dubai World Central with its own purpose-built property.

A customer starting a new competition today is spoilt for choice. At the upper end of the European offerings, the Typhoon and Rafale are superficially similar, but the former excels in acceleration, supersonic maneuverability and altitude while the latter still leads in range and diversity of weapons.