Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the McDonnell Douglas MD-11’s legacy now that FedEx and UPS have both announced plans to retire the trijet.
Check 6

By Steve Trimble
A multilayered plan to defend Guam from swarming missile attacks will require a new level of integration between Army and Navy interceptor systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine, Garrett Reim
The U.S. Space Development Agency is poised to test its small-satellite constellation.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kevin Michaels
Increasing payment terms will exacerbate supplier distress and ultimately could thwart the ability of OEMs to reach production goals.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
The Japanese defense ministry and leading companies in the country are working to lower costs and strengthen the supply chain.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
The aerospace and defense Industry has an attraction and retention problem of its own making.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
A newly created Defense unit is projected to triple Bombardier’s revenue in the next decade.
Supply Chain

By Christine Boynton
As forecasts project a continuing pilot shortage, some U.S. airlines are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel.
Airlines & Lessors

Eric Cunningham
Europe and China are investing at least 10 times the amount NASA and the FAA are spending annually for public-private R&D efforts on aeronautics.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Aviation Week staff
U.S. Navy Adm. (ret.) William H. McRaven, now a senior advisor at Lazard, spoke with Aviation Week editors about budgets, China and the Russia-Ukraine War.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
In Europe’s Clean Aviation project, no funding exists for SAF-related technology—not in aircraft engines or SAF production.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Zipline’s home delivery drone; Amprius’ 500 Wh/kg battery; Ampaire flies for ARPA-E; and Wingcopter goes hydrogen.
Emerging Technologies

Martha Neubauer
Hydrogen propulsion in aviation faces significant technical and market challenges.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz, Michael Bruno, Guy Norris
A loose fuel filter doomed the company’s last launch. Then came a bigger problem.
Commercial Space

By Sean Broderick
A U.S. push to curb a troubling trend of commercial aviation occurrences will lean heavily on existing safety risk-mitigation strategies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

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

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

Readers write about Operation Just Cause, Boeing's next airliner, transatlantic balloons, presidential airlift aircraft requirements and airline pilots.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Guy Norris
Flatter cargo forecasts, rising costs and more efficient twinjet replacements push FedEx and UPS MD-11s toward retirement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick, Thierry Dubois
The complex path to hydrogen propulsion, and why air travel will get more expensive.
Check 6

By Tony Osborne
In the past 18 months, three of the NH90’s 14 national customers have concluded that the efforts to keep it operational are not worth pursuing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A long-awaited transfer of Polish and Slovakian MiGs will help restore Ukrainian air force capacity, but they add few needed capabilities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Beta plans to certify a CTOL version of its electric aircraft ahead of the VTOL variant.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A five-year-old plan to in-source major airpower capabilities is threatened by political, economic and industrial forces.
Budget, Policy & Operations