Aviation Week & Space Technology

Pacific island airlines prepare for growth phase as new aircraft types allow them to extend their range and target new tourist sources.

Still wanting 20 more fighters, the air force’s interest has drifted away from a repeat order for F-35As.

Leveraging Europe’s long-running Lapcat program, Stratofly is taking sustainable hypersonic commercial transport research to the next level.

Boeing 737 MAX operators are betting on late-2019 return-to-service approvals.

Equipment development, acquisition and maintenance—which traditionally has taken about a third of Chinese defense spending—has shot above 40%.

XTI picks Catalyst; Continental joins VerdeGo; Vision-assisted autoland; Archinaut makes in space; Sunlight powers LightSail 2

Feeling mounting threats against its space assets, French government launches dedicated defense effort.

As electric technology advances, carriers partner with industry to explore its viability and likely effects on the airline business.

The annual Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture focuses on innovation and battery powered aircraft. Listen as Fred George and Molly McMillin report live from Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

At the Royal International Air Tattoo, the magnitude of the UK’s Royal Air Force modernization – from space to hypersonics and fighter jets, comes into sharp focus.

Collaboration, commercial metrics and more accountability can ensure the military’s critical weapons are available when needed.

Upcoming aviation and aerospace industry events and Aviation Week Network events.

Greece has signed up to China’s infrastructure-development program. Juneyao wants to fly to Athens.

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

Are “HACM” and “HCCW” the missing links in the U.S. hypersonic weapons portfolio?

Readers discuss parachute roles for urban air mobility, reasons for DC-10 program's demise, deep space exploration and CRJ sales. Also Moon relic map credits.

Mosquito aims to bolster air combat mass with a UCAV one-tenth the cost of a manned fighter.

Tempest technology research is generating firsts for Europe and the world.

The future took the captain’s seat at the world’s largest aviation gathering, the annual Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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

Chris Kraft wrote the book on human spaceflight operations; few were better students than Bill Gerstenmaier.

Hemisphere termination puts hold on Safran’s business jet market ambitions, despite positive results from recent tests of upgraded Silvercrest compressor.

Bulgarian F-16 deal vetoed; Colombia seeks fighter bids; Malaysia seeks navy helos and ULA delays milspace launches

After the test of its Ground-based Midcourse Defense System, components of the upgraded Redesigned Kill Vehicle may be slowing upgrades to new interceptors.

Return-to-service timing key to 2020 MAX production rates.