Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Matthew Jouppi, Sterling Richmond
Aviation Week has assembled this guide to some of the most important contests that are unfolding between 2023 and 2032.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Orloff
Intense demand has created a seller’s market, and data show prices for used business aviation aircraft are still going up.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The U.S. space agency is collecting data from the Orion capsule as it prepares to return to Earth after 25 days in space.
Space

You don’t have to work in aerospace to be a winner of Aviation Week’s Photo Contest, but it helps.
Aerospace

With backgrounds in photography, journalism, art and design, our judges bring an appreciation for aesthetics and love of aviation.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
An eVTOL behaves and is controlled differently as it changes between thrustborne and wingborne flight and back.
Emerging Technologies

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Readers write about the Space Launch System, Boeing's workforce, U.S. Space Force contracts for satellite refueling and the B-2 and B-21 rollouts.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
Army selects V-280 tiltrotor as UH-60 Black Hawk replacement
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Lessons learned for Boeing’s quality management system are playing a key role in helping the OEM get the 787 program back on track.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Graham Warwick
Aviation Week editors discuss two of the biggest events of the year for military aviation, how they went down and what they mean for the future.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
After a series of alleged faux-departs, France’s Dassault Aviation has declared the three-nation FCAS program can move forward.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Slow rate of 787 delivery recovery reflects nonconformance and noncompliance problems such as gaps, shimming and other production issues.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
Airbus is concerned the industry is not moving fast enough toward its net zero target and is shifting focus to hydrogen fuel cell tests.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
A twofold specific energy improvement is sought in batteries, seen as the weak link so far in a hybrid-electric architecture.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Using carbon for SAF; Automation for UAM; Net-zero jet fuel; and Electrifying ground support.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Modified Cessna Skymaster plays key role in Canadian low-emission aviation program research effort.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine, Guy Norris, Steve Trimble, Graham Warwick
The B-21 Raider was displayed at the company’s secretive Plant 42 complex about 34 years after a similar ceremony for its predecessor the B-2.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
How do the B-21 and B-2 bomber differ? Here are four ways.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Yes, you are in a strong defense spending economy. Whether it will ever feel like one is a different question.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
China’s nuclear arsenal grows; Russia converts to conventional; Raptor helmet displays, and U.S. buys three more GPS satellites.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois
China’s decision to certify some Western aircraft helps address a few markets. But it is also very political.
Air Transport

Raanan Horowitz
The nation can employ contracting tools, competition, creative policies and allied technologies to meet increased demands.
Budget, Policy & Operations