Aviation Week & Space Technology

A stalemate in the Russia-Ukraine War, a looming recession and supply chain issues are curbing investor enthusiasm for defense stocks.

Step behind the scenes with Aviation Week editors to hear about their sit downs with Guillaume Faury and David Calhoun prior to Farnborough Airshow.

The company is developing plans for aircraft that could support crewed combat aircraft in battle by the end of the decade.

Production and testing infrastructure will expand dramatically with a $2 billion investment in the latest Defense Department budget proposal.

Following ICAO’s upcoming meeting in Montreal, governments should collaborate to adopt additional sustainability standards

A UAS operations veteran sees the health care industry as an early opportunity for AAM.

High-definition 3D maps could pave way for soldier-robot teams.

New requirements, more conservative approaches and evolving international relationships force OEMs to build more time into certification.

Lockheed Martin’s rapid prototyping division defines new concept for collaboration between crewed and uncrewed combat aircraft.

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Korean Air’s chairman is confident of gaining regulatory approval for proposed Asiana acquisition by the end of this year.

Hunting hypersonic production capacity; Boeing’s Chinook exports; Turkey tests air-to-air missile; and Northrop’s Rooster rideshare.

Anticipating swift growth in India and hoping for a follow-on Rafale contract, Safran invests in production and MRO facilities.

TU Delft’s Flying V family, Electra’s hybrid savings, Stratolaunch readies Talon and hydrogen for heavy-lift airship.

Pilots’ electronic flight bags are vulnerable to cyberattack, company finds.

As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.

The largest U.S. regional carrier hopes partial return to Part 135 status could help remedy chronic shortage of regional airline pilots.

The Russia-Ukraine war has galvanized Europe and NATO, but facing issues such as high inflation, can defense commitments be maintained?

Boeing CEO David Calhoun takes on critics and explains why the company won’t be rushed into developing a next-generation narrowbody.

Novel algorithm is behind startup’s claimed breakthrough

Digital engineering helped Raytheon score the first U.S. flight test of an air-breathing hypersonic missile demonstrator since 2013.

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

Readers write about the culture at Boeing, NASA and SpaceX; the airline pilot shortage; and the future of high-speed travel.

Should UK industry continue to focus on being a key supplier to offshore OEMs, or can it return to whole-aircraft manufacturing?

X-59 Quesst Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator is in the final stages of assembly at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works.