Aviation Week & Space Technology

We provide answers to some of the key questions about the UK’s looming exit from the EU.

President/CEO John Holmes talks labor shortages, the MAX crisis, technological enablers and lucrative opportunities.

Airbus introduces advanced autopilot modes and a vortex-ring-state prediction tool on its new twin-engine medium helicopter.

Following a successful demonstration of Dragon’s launch abort system, SpaceX is in the home stretch for a crewed flight test.

Iran’s acknowledgment that it shot down PS752 removes that doubt and painfully validates our 5.5 years of work on airspace risk awareness, but it also makes clear that this work was not enough to prevent a repeat tragedy. It is now evident that governments must play a more active role in preventing airlines from flying in conflict zones.

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

RIP Boeing Phantom Express; UK offloads AWACS aircraft; CMV-22B delivery imminent; UK upgrading training helo requirements.

Optical sensors have joined Israel’s elaborate and increasingly more powerful air surveillance network

Israel’s precision weapons are sold all over the world, but struggled to break into world’s most lucrative market until recently

Automaker investments and flying prototypes are boosting the credibility of urban air mobility.

IPOs, mergers and strategic moves reshuffle industrial landscape for Israeli aerospace.

Aerospace Calendar Feb. 11-16—Singapore Airshow. Changi Exhibition Center. Singapore. See singaporeairshow.com Feb. 13-April 2—RTCA Plenary Sessions

Most in industry and government see high-level, multinational efforts as a pipe dream, leaving airlines to fend for themselves.

Readers write about Boeing management and culture woes, cockpit system manual override, and nuclear power for remote military bases.

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

Boeing did not have the best year, and how many aircraft can and will be built will likely be open questions for years.

For lack of $14 million a year, premier infrared space telescope’s mission ends Jan. 30.

Progress in neuroscience gives researchers new leads to improve pilot performance in stressful conditions.

The production pause will yield carnage that Boeing and its Tier 1 partners must proactively manage to ensure the production ecosystem.

The country that popularized unmanned aircraft systems in modern warfare is at the forefront of a new strategic change.

Welcoming the sixth and newest U.S. armed service the Space Force which has its first official member.

A new automation mode to improve strafing accuracy by F-16s also highlights a new approach to fielding new capabilities.

A new era of high speed civil flight is beckoning but are commercial supersonic or even hypersonic aircraft justifiable amid rising concerns over aviation’s environmental impact? Guy Norris and Graham Warwick discuss this and other topics from AIAA’s annual SciTech forum where the global challenge of achieving sustainable aviation took center stage.

New documents reveal conscious efforts to streamline MAX certification, training, despite signs of risk.

The last few years have gone off plan at Maxar Technologies, which is worth bearing in mind with more space-sector consolidation expected.