Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Sean Broderick
Delegation is here to stay, and manufacturers are—and always have been—accountable for ensuring regulatory compliance.
Air Transport

Daniel Oltrogge
The success of the growing commercial space industry is at risk.
Program Management

By Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick, Bradley Perrett, Adrian Schofield
The effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak are severe, manifold, complex and could be catastrophic for some airlines.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Spirit’s eVTOL tieup; electrified commuter aircraft; kitplane-based MALE flies; Volocopter raises more funds; Sweden’s electric aviation.
Aerospace

Anatoly Zak
Ukrainian engineers are helping Chinese industry with the study of engine designs.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Twelve years after the requirement emerged, the U.S. military finally appears serious about acquiring a light-attack aircraft fleet
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
While lawmakers always declare the president’s request dead on arrival on Capitol Hill, this year there was more than the usual dismissal by a rival branch of government.
Defense

Readers write about the hypersonics race, electromechanical catapult systems, Bombardier management and a conversion correction.

By Guy Norris
Long-running blended wing body studies have so far come to nothing, but Airbus may have the technology to bring it to reality.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
In a breakthrough use of computer vision, Airbus makes swift progress in its autonomous takeoff-and-landing project.
Program Management

By Tony Osborne
Stratospheric test flights to come as PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite makes first flight in Australia.
Aerospace

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

Bombardier’s retreat shows why governments should seed technology development and let industry carry the risk of creating new products.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Undoing Boeing’s stockpile of roughly 900 grounded, parked and partially built MAXs and recoordinating its supply chain could take years.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Russian Naval aircraft’s first flight; Space Force to integrate MILsatcom; F/A-18s tested in Finland; and Turkey’s armed drone.
Defense

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno, Jen DiMascio, Graham Warwick
Its decision to shed commercial aviation and rail divisions may not be enough, given the crowded business aviation market.
Air Transport

By Byron Callan
The GDP and interest rate assumptions on which the budget is predicated are questionable.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
DARPA fiscal 2019 budget request targets new weapons and communications concepts for contested environments.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Hopes for a sale to Saudi Arabia are out of reach with German arms embargo on Riyadh.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
How lawmakers and the administration are responding to the most surprising proposals in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2021 budget request.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force decides to trade-off current capabilities in the near-term to finance next-generation projects.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A radically modified demonstrator made its first flight in May 2019, but it has come to light only now after video was posted on social media.
Aerospace