Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Bradley Perrett
Without schedule pressure to develop the Long March 9, China pursues resusable designs.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Services firms exposed to interest rate hikes; C-130 propeller woes; hypersonic test bed ordered; and Hungarian C-390s in production.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren, Jens Flottau
The Comac C919 will soon fly scheduled services, but the UAC MC-21 is being held back by fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

P. Barry Butler
Algorithms are being written to improve training and maintenance and better visualize risks.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
ZeroAvia’s fuel-cell bet; 5G for UAM; Swiss eVTOL partnership; DARPA’s wireless energy network; and Electra wants to demo AAM.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Safran thinks an electric taxiing system could save up to 4% of fuel burn on narrowbodies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Why incorporating virtual reality in helicopter pilot training can make it safer.
Maintenance & Training

By Graham Warwick
AutoFlight plans to develop and certify its electric urban air taxi in Europe, manufacture the vehicle in China and market it globally.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The transformation of the Army’s fixed-wing intelligence fleet is about to transition from the experimental to the acquisition phase.
AUSA

Readers write about eVTOLs, titanium in aerospace, NTSB's role in space-travel-related accidents and AW&ST's influence on one subscriber.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

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

By Garrett Reim
TruWeather sees a need to build microweather sensor networks to support urban air mobility operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

Peter Cannito
Ready or not, the next era of space exploration is upon us. The Moon and Mars are calling, and through advancements in key technology the means exist
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick, Jens Flottau
Lilium’s new CEO Klaus Roewe is confident the eVTOL manufacturer can freeze the production design next year and fly the Pegasus in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
Incoming MTU CEO Lars Wagner hopes to break CFM International’s Boeing 737 monopoly to power possible narrowbody successor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Jens Flottau
Boeing has long owned the freighter market, but Airbus has launched the A350F and is looking at additional cargo versions.
Airlines & Lessors

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army and defense industry is eagerly awaiting the outcome of an extended bidding war for a long-range, high-speed rotorcraft.
AUSA

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based, autonomous refueling aircraft has had “growing pains,” a Boeing executive says, as the production phase begins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio, Joe Anselmo
On Oct. 14, eight renovated galleries of the museum in Washington, D.C., will reopen to the public. Chris Browne, the museum’s John and Adrienne Mars director,
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
A Mars architecture concept review is expected to be completed in January.
Space

By Irene Klotz
SLS debut launch is scuttled by an approaching hurricane.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
As the European Commission and ESA rally to support reusability concepts, research and technology projects slip to the right.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Axiom aims to include two Saudis during next private mission to the ISS.
Commercial Space