Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Sean Broderick
A final report on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accident offers little insight on pilot performance, which France and the U.S. say deserves closer scrutiny.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble
A busy two weeks for the F-35 reveals new details about the program’s strengths and weaknesses as the program enters a critical new phase.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
For China, striking distant targets in the Pacific is one thing. Doing it economically is another.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
ATS’s pre-pandemic investments in technical training and components help it to weather ongoing supply chain and workforce challenges.
Aircraft & Propulsion

News about coatings, engine MRO and joint ventures in this month’s Contracts and News Briefs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Alex Krutz
The supply must adopt digital aerospace engineering tools that will transform aircraft manufacturing production systems.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau
He flew airplanes at age 14 and invented the aircraft leasing industry in his 20s. Fifty years later at age 75, he shows no sign of stopping.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chris Sloan
Long-term ramifications could see the airline speed up planned internal upgrades and lawmakers ponder tougher passenger-focused performance standards.
Airlines & Lessors

By Garrett Reim
Company sees robots as critical for building off-world economy.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Army wants its Black Hawk replacement fielded quickly, though the schedule faces uncertainty as the Government Accountability Office reviews Bell’s award.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The startup is studying how tumbling debris behaves.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
As development starts winding down, Saab’s Gripen E unit is focusing on improving the global fleet of C/D models and starting to consider what comes next.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Fan-in-wing eVTOL; 6G sensor-comms integration; Mobile hydrogen fueler; and Drive/Fly eVTOL prototype.
Emerging Technologies

Aviation Week Staff
Russian airspace restrictions will present opportunities for some of the region’s carriers on Asia-Europe traffic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno
Dealmaking slowed down in the second half of 2022, but the year ended with a bang.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
The Dream Chaser’s ISS missions are the first of several orbital roles expected to be operated from Sierra Space’s mission control center.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Startup’s lunar lander is an early attempt to commercialize the Moon.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Dense Tokyo is at the epicenter of the country’s space startups.
Commercial Space

By William Garvey
Misguided grounding mission using poor-quality video and wrong ID is foiled with NextGen’s tracking tech.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
Senior executives from Mesa Airlines and United Airlines say they have directly influenced design decisions at the startups they back.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Dream Chaser spaceplane tests in 2023 mark first operational steps toward development of Sierra Space’s orbital ecosystem.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Propulsion pioneer MagniX prepares to test the final design iteration of its electric engines.
Advanced Air Mobility

Michael Cisek
How the U.S. fighter jet is underpinning the nation’s aerospace industry.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Active-flow-control X-plane; eVTOL crash-test surprise; Light-aircraft hybrid propulsion; and Korean UAM dry run.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
The OEM plans to try new formula to benefit from a higher-aspect-ratio wing, without the extra weight.
Air Transport