Aviation Week & Space Technology

Potential Aircraft Sale for UAE; Boeing to train Qatari F-15QA pilots; Nigeria’s latest Chinese UAS order; and ESS contract for Lockheed.

BAE, Boeing and Lockheed Martin (supported by Northrop Grumman) are offering to work as MHI’s partner.

NASA and the FAA are cooperating to understand performance characteristics and operating requirements for urban air taxis.

In 2015, Robert DeLaurentis set out to circumnavigate the world in a Piper Malibu Mirage. He made it, but things did not go as planned.

Washington could take a tougher line on NATO members seen as undermining the alliance’s cohesion, including Turkey and Poland.

Groundings and layoffs shift attention to pilots’ well-being as well as competency.

OEM production rate guidance ain’t what it used to be; how the supply chain has to read between the lines.

Germany is the first Eurofighter partner nation to top up its orders; Spain will follow in 2021.

NASA is looking at ways to enable industry to collaborate in maturing technologies for the next narrowbody airliner.

In little more than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended industry projections of a pilot shortage by creating a surplus.

Research is clearly aimed at taking an advanced digital antenna technology from ground applications to F-X and Tempest.

Ask the Editors: The S4 is an airplane that is also capable of vertical flight and therefore does not operate like a helicopter.

SDA director Derek Tournear joins Aviation Week editors on Check 6 to discuss how its system of space tracking and transport satellites will revolutionize the U.S. military and the challenges it will face along the way.

Now planned from 2021-23, the transition between the current Ariane 5 and its successor may be complex for Arianespace.

New testing shows that a 20-year-old concept can double the radiated power of future airborne early warning radars.

The answers to these questions will determine the segment’s shape and structure for the foreseeable future.

Draft minimum curriculum needs more emphasis on the MCAS and manual-trim scenarios, pilot groups tell the FAA.

UK, U.S. F-35 commanders claim “seamless” integration in joint exercises on new British carrier.

NASA’s moral autonomy; Beyond FAA’s UAS IPP; X-57’s lift props; VoltAero picks Sonaca; Hill’s in-house turboshaft; Canadian AAM.

Ask the Editors: Widespread, affordable testing is the key in the short-to-medium term.

Latest Roland Berger report highlights lack of dominant business model in nascent UAM market.

The new U.S. Air Force chief of staff is finding out how difficult it will be shed older aircraft and make way for a modernized fleet

As new lockdowns threaten further drops in demand, airlines are hoping for a 2021 recovery.

Japan’s major airlines are drastically cutting back widebody fleets while also increasing their focus on medium-haul LCC subsidiaries.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.