Aviation Week & Space Technology

Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the key challenges of the next 25 years will be fundamentally different from those of the last several decades.

The concept would allow Air Force leaders to hedge against the risk of future technology breakthroughs and surprise enemies with unexpected new capabilities.

Rolls-Royce’s decision to pull the UltraFan from the NMA competition may be a good move by the UK engine-maker, but what happens now?

Aviation Week flies Sikorsky’s autonomous S-76 testbed as the company reveals its interest in the urban air mobility market.

DARPA’s original late-1970s Assault Breaker sought to counter possibility of overwhelming waves of Soviet armored forces rampaging across Western Europe.

New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.

Half a decade following the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, an international tracking system is still being built.

EU urges ICAO to agree at its assembly in September on a “long-term goal” to address the aviation industry’s rising CO2 emissions.

Virgin Galactic targets assured repeatability as test focus expands beyond envelope expansion to include cabin environment and ride quality.

As the space shuttle neared retirement, NASA turned to partnerships with commercial companies to provide crew ferry flights to and from the International Space Station. Here’s a look at program milestones.

As NASA gears up for first U.S. human spaceflights since 2011, a training tool from the ‘60s is back in vogue.

At last, a U.S spaceship for orbital human flight is ready for a test run to ISS.

BAE’s improved EW system; Japan plans 2020 UAV demo; Israeli Air Force beefs up Heron TP, and the U.S. Army’s radar "sense off."

Impressive improvements in aircraft fuel burn and carbon emissions are being offset by the industry’s rapid growth.

FlightSafety International expands its pilot, technician and flight-attendant training to offer fundamental instruction for aspiring civilian drone operators.

The CAAC is putting development of Beijing Daxing International ahead of protecting Air China in its home town.

Engineers have adopted a simple approach to the CityAirbus electric propulsion architecture.

Startup Sabrewing secures seed funding and launch order as it begins building full-scale unmanned cargo aircraft.

The current situation is combustible enough for defense analysts and planners to ponder how Venezuela might affect the 2019-21 outlook for the sector.

Benjamin Smith took control of Air France-KLM in September with three clear mandates.

Much as Saab created an enlarged Gripen, India’s defense technology agency wants to lengthen the HAL Tejas and give it the F414 engine.

Boeing Airpower Teaming System is a fighter-like unmanned aircraft specifically designed to be exportable globally.

Record-breaking aeronaut Brian Jones is heading a British commercial HAPS startup with backing from Ordnance Survey.

AeroVironment’s secretive, high-altitude pseudo-satellite aircraft is supposed to be a pillar of its growth. Slowly but surely, investors are learning how.

Top aircraft manufacturers and providers tell current and would-be providers they must pay to play in the historic ramp-up of airliner production.