Aviation Week & Space Technology

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A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.

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

Reaching its 2025 delivery goal was always going to be challenging for Airbus. Now it turns out it is unachievable.

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

We need clarity about the regulations and access to loan funds for students, to ensure the pipeline of up-and-coming pilots is not slowed.

A sense of urgency led member states to fuel ESA with record funding.

The agency’s Lift Challenge aims for at least a fourfold increase in drone payload-to-weight capability.

The Middle East, as the crucible for challenging durability and performance conditions, is the focus for ongoing dust ingestion engine tests.

The controller would transition to a supervisory role, no longer dealing with routine operations such as frequency changes, automation promoters say.

Inexpensive, mass-produced cruise missiles could ensure that the U.S. and allies have enough firepower to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

Powertrain demonstrators advance under Airbus’ rescoped effort to field a hydrogen-electric commercial aircraft.

Strategic decisions loom for some of the biggest Western airlift programs.

From low-cost drone interceptors to advanced cruise missiles to air-to-air missiles, the United Arab Emirates wants to do it all.

X-plane escapes cancellation; China’s hybrid powertrains; Modular cargo UAV, India’s indigenous aircraft.

The United Arab Emirates is emerging as a hive for light attack and training aircraft developments with further offers from Calidus and Edge Group.

The United Arab Emirates is shifting its space program focus to economic gains and security, blending civil-military efforts in a bid to become a space power.

The U.S. Coast Guard is set to receive $24.59 billion through 2029 for fleet modernization, including a controversial $172 million G700 purchase.

For Emirates’ long-haul fleet, the challenge is twofold: maintaining aging widebodies while looking beyond their likely life spans to the next big thing.

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps legacy Hornets will get the safety system in 2026; development is starting for F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers.

ACMI operators are increasingly looking to markets in the Southern Hemisphere to pick up business in the European low season.

Beta’s autonomy pick; Cranfield’s hydrogen pivot; hybrid powerplant progress; flying cell tower testbed.

Readers discuss student satellites, airline evacuations, contrails and Joe Anselmo’s LinkedIn post on Aviation Week’s rejection of the Pentagon's press policy. Plus: Behind the Scenes at the Dubai Airshow.

Boeing 777-9 delays mean Cathay is not due to receive new widebodies until at least 2027.

In spite of geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty, airlines in the Gulf region are spending big money on large new narrowbody and widebody fleets.