Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Bradley Perrett
The aircraft will carry the main load of remaining SpaceJet flight testing. Two more of the new design are being built.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Fast-track propulsion-system test program puts hypersonic developer on course for key mode transition demonstration later this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
ThereCraft cargo UAV; Aeronomie models electrification; TsAGI refines flying wing; EHang teams with Seville; Urban partners with Ascent.
Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The air cargo sector knows it needs to be more sustainable, and efforts are gaining ground.
Airlines & Lessors

By Irene Klotz
With cases of COVID-19 on the rise, NASA shutters Stennis and Michoud centers.
Program Management

By Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick, Ben Goldstein, Helen Massy-Beresford, Adrian Schofield, Bradley Perrett
IATA wants $200 billion of state aid for airlines to survive. Those that do will be in a very different industry, with fewer players.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Despite COVID-19 Britain is undertaking its biggest defense and foreign policy review since Cold War.
Defense

Commercial aviation has weathered numerous crises, and each time it has recovered and grown stronger.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army awards Bell and Sikorsky risk-reduction contracts for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Readers write about aviation English language proficiency, Convair 880 memories, flight training for manual flying and gallons-per-minute measure.

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

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois
Aerospace manufacturing has awakened to a nightmare. Customer demand could swoon as air travel is crippled, battering a sector already reeling from narrowbody and widebody cuts alike.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Daniel Urchick, Matthew Jouppi
A look at military requirements across the continent that may translate into orders over the next decade.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Ahead of the launch of his new book Harrier 809, aviation author and historian Rowland White joins Aviation Week’s London Bureau Chief Tony Osborne to discuss the story of Britain’s legendary jump jet and its role in the Falklands War.
Check 6

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps has opted to pursue an unmanned family-of-systems instead of having one large expensive air vehicle.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The Air Force is expected to announce this summer which companies will supply national security space launch services beginning in 2022.
Space Symposium

By Steve Trimble
Original estimates for costs, schedules and quantities of the Lockheed Martin F-35 upon contract award in October 2001 proved highly unreliable over
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Taking 18 years to fly people in space won’t cut it to get to Mars, says Musk.
Commercial Space

By Sean Broderick
Draft sent to the U.S. contained a probable-cause statement despite report’s status as an interim update
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
Jim Taiclet, a relative outsider, could herald big changes at Lockheed as the Pentagon’s top contractor changes CEO.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Eighteen months after Boeing/Saab team won the T-X contract, the T-50 and M-346 continue to compete for USAF deals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Advanced ICBMs drive faster schedule, but can MDA deliver?
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
American Airlines, ACSS and the FAA are collecting data on the operational value of flights using ADS-B In.
Connected Aerospace

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
NASA looks to industry power train demonstrators to advance electrified aircraft propulsion.
Aerospace