Aviation Week & Space Technology

Ask the Editors: Hydrogen propulsion offers a significant opportunity to reduce carbon emissions, but major challenges lie ahead.

Greg Hayes took heat for merging UTC with Raytheon, but critics are silenced as defense has cushioned the company during the pandemic.

Aerion’s carbon-neutral fuel; Calspan tests trust in AI; Dubai advances Sky Dome; DLR backs clean aviation; Lilium’s modular vertiports.

The FAA and Switzerland’s Federal Office of Civil Aviation sign an accord to advance drone integration standards.

As Europe strengthens its focus on the environment, ESA prepares for massive spending on new-generation Earth observation satellites.

Ask the Editors: The pause on the Airbus A220-500 development will be short-lived because of the growing demand for bigger narrowbodies.

This webinar took place July 10, 2020. COVID-19 could prove to be the making or the breaking of the electrification of electric propulsion. Will the

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston says in an interview how the RAF is adapting to COVID-19 and looking ahead to transformative initiatives such as ASTRA.

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

Objectives include surveying the topography and geology of Mars, its physical fields, atmosphere, ionosphere and climate.

Manned-unmanned teaming and combat cloud technologies are key disruptors in Europe’s Future Combat Air System.

Pilots who have seen proposed material say it marks major philosophical shift.

Italian and Swedish industry will begin joining discussions on Tempest later this year.

Airbus Defense & Space CEO Dirk Hoke talks with Aviation Week about COVID impact, Europe’s big defense initiatives and other challenges.

The UK is preparing to advance to the next stage of its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft technology demonstrator project.

Since June, airlines have started to reinstate substantial capacity, and now must hope demand will return as expected.

Committee backs increased F-35 buy; fixing drag on F-18 readiness; Austria to retire trainers; and Brazilian Gripen production starts.

Readers write about air-to-air missiles, clear language, aircraft recycling, troop transport and robots on Mars.

A country-by-country look at who will benefit from the alphabet soup of European defense and aerospace programs in progress to bolster industry.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Initiatives such as the European Defense Fund and PESCO could give the European defense industry a leg-up in the post-coronavirus era.

A recent IATA survey has shown that passenger concerns are flying are still paramount. Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick, Bill Carey, Ben Goldstein and Jens Flottau discuss what airlines and airports can realistically do to protect passengers from being infected with COVID-19 and what the role of governments should be.

Ask the Editors: OEMs have shifted away from the underlying architectures of automobiles. Is a similar sea change in aviation due?

U.S. Military bureaucracy has neglected serious risks to the system and its users for decades.