Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The pressure is on the low-boom supersonic demonstrator and the stakes are high.

An industry task force recommends the FAA and Transport Canada expedite drone remote identification requirements.

Machine learning that can explain its predictions is a key to enabling use of artificial intelligence in safety-critical applications.

Modernized fighters will have the BAE DEWS electronic warfare system and, probably, almost certainly, AIM-120s and AIM-9s.

Airbus UK’s Bird of Prey concept will never fly, but may inspire more unconventional approaches to future aircraft design.

Engineering services company Akka pursues modular aircraft concept as way to develop workforce skills and technology knowhow.

The smallsat market could grow at a compound annual growth rate of 27% over the next decade, and Washington wants to make sure the sector remains U.S.-dominant.