Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Bill Carey
An agreement between Iridium and OneWeb is called a LEO industry first.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Poland has designed and produced thousands of indigenous-developed aircraft, could it do the same again?
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Backing for battery pack developer; Italian Eurofighters to launch satellites? France tests smallsat air launch; Drone Remote ID; Wing picks delivery partners.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
The defense ministry has sought funding to modify one ship in fiscal 2020. It will need to be ready when F-35Bs arrive, probably in fiscal 2024.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Senate appropriators demand Air Force transition plan for adaptive engine technology.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
Airbus has mostly ignored the new-built cargo aircraft market and instead slowly entered the conversion market, with rival Boeing in a much stronger position.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Airborne Wireless Network and Aeronet Global once sought to be first to provide airliner-based broadband backbone services. What happened?
Connected Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Aero closing in on closing L-39NG contracts for Senegal and LOM Praha.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force’s premier fighter development program calls for disrupting the aerospace business models.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Evaluation flights have been completed on an electric forward-facing window that will allow the pilot to fly the supersonic X-59 safely.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson
In an exclusive interview, Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper lays out a plan for a new way to make a “century series” of aircraft. Aviation Week editors Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson and Jen DiMascio process what that might mean for the military and current manufacturing base.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
Increased Haneda access will play a key role in plans by the major Japanese airlines to accelerate international expansion in 2020.
Air Transport

Mike Ingram
The potential for the eVTOL ecosystem is likely to be $10-20 billion by 2030.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
Infrastructure spending is a hot-button issue ahead of next year’s presidential election. The president may win the issue, for reasons important to A&D.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Pioneering space habitat developer cancels launch contracts for ISS, low Earth orbit passenger flights.
Space

By Guy Norris
Honeywell’s Convair CV-580 flying testbed has had a career that included a key role in the evolution of industry’s most important safety avionics developments.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
From advanced turbofans to UAM avionics, Honeywell’s flying testbeds are gearing up for expansion.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Netherlands to buy nine more F-35s; U.S. Marine’s UH/AH-1 replacement effort; Boeing assembling Japanese tanker; India tests first indigenous missile.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
Embraer delivers the second, larger version of the E2 family to its first operator. Executives hope the low unit costs will allow it to break into new markets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Earthquake damage at test range delays plans to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of unmanned aircraft that would cooperate with manned platforms.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Flirtey reveals plans to begin commercial drone deliveries.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau
Airbus’ move to increase the A220’s range even more has to be seen in the context of its wider strategy against Boeing.
Air Transport

By Richard Aboulafia
After years of above-trend air traffic growth, air travel demand has slowed markedly this year, putting the jetliner double cycle at risk.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Up to three eVTOL developers sought to participate in the developmental testing event to pave way for NASA’s UAM Grand Challenge.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Norwegian scalable ramjet could have applications across air-, ground- and sea-launched weaponry.
Defense