The nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle demonstrator took flight on June 4 at the Dassault Aviation flight test center at Istres in what is claimed to have been first time a stealth aircraft controlled from the ground has flown in public.

Technologies designed to reduce costs of major public building programs may offer terrorists an unprecedented reconnaissance capability, the Security Service has warned.

Israel Aerospace Industries is developing a supplemental type certificate for a 737-700BDSF cargo conversion. A first prototype aircraft is under conversion from passenger to full freighter configurations at IAI’s facility.

Since 2012, Britain has boosted space spending. Four years later, however, the promise of the industry’s dynamism may not be enough to justify a sustained investment in space.

In an active M&A market for the industry, Michael Richter, managing director of Lazard’s Aerospace and Defense investment banking group, shares his observations from Farnborough.

There is a subset of the Airshow demographic – British, of a certain age, invariably male – who will find a new concept being touted by the Volga-Dnepr Group to be oddly yet excitingly familiar.

F-35 test pilots have begun testing the aircraft’s ability to carry asymmetric external loads in powered-lift flight.

The Italian Air Force has begun acceptance trials of a new fleet of maritime patrol aircraft based on the ATR-72 regional airliner. It has ordered four P-72As from Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s aircraft division.