Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Karem releases Butterfly; Spain joins eVTOL club; Ampaire targets GA; Japan’s Moonbus; Swedish drone deliveries.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
The agency is working to ensure Beijing’s new airport is a success in international operations, rewarding foreign airlines for moving there.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
The FAA is assessing how to regulate the nascent spaceport industry, including how to make it work with the current aviation traffic structure.
Space

By Irene Klotz
New leaders wanted to better plan, implement budgets and schedules for human space initiatives.
Space

By Tony Osborne
British F-35 squadron assessed the fighter's global support chain and networks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
UK study and investment spur new interest in Mach 5 flight.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Incident investigation finds widespread problem in Airbus A340 pilot input at takeoff.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson
Since last December, the upper echelons of Pentagon leadership remain in disarray, and enduring stability seems elusive.
Defense

Words by Sean Broderick, Graphics by Rija Tariq
The mid-March global grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX fleet created instant questions for airlines and Boeing. Among the most pressing: Where to park them?
Air Transport

By Irene Klotz, Jen DiMascio
NASA is making dramatic moves in its human exploration directorate. Aviation Week Space Editor Irene Klotz discusses the changes and what they mean for the agency’s future.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Leak in Super Draco propellant pressurization system triggered explosion during test.
Space

By Bradley Perrett, Tony Osborne
Canberra seeks information on a proven and mature armed helicopter. Bell and Boeing will propose the Viper and Apache, Airbus a Tiger modernization.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The UAE may have to rethink its Earth surveillance plan after Vega mission failure destroys country’s first high-performance observation satellite.
Space

By Kevin Michaels
Mitsubishi’s purchase of Bombardier’s regional jet business gives it an existing support network. Superjet experience is a cautionary tale.
Air Transport

By William Garvey
Schafer Meadow, an airstrip in a designated wilderness area, has a warning to visiting pilots: Watch for horses or big game on the 3,200-ft. grass runway.
Business Aviation

By Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
How will U.S.-Turkey impasse over air defense systems be resolved?
Defense

By Graham Warwick
UK startup Vertical Aerospace sees Honeywell fly-by-wire as a differentiator in crowded eVTOL market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airlines face an increasing number of environmental measures, with uncertainty over how helpful they are.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Conscription a key component in Swedish air force’s plans for wartime dispersal.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
High-speed gyrodyne reborn; German hybrid-electric testbed; Rolls fuels hybrid research; VoltAero’s Italian job; electric STOL in a cold climate.
Aerospace

By Adrian Schofield
Some of the region’s major carriers are looking to gain advantages by establishing new metal-neutral joint ventures or strengthening existing partnerships.
Air Transport

Too young to see Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon, a new generation of engineers and scientists is nonetheless inspired by the Apollo program.
Space

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

John Tylko
Here is a look at the ingenuity and elegance in designing the systems and subsystems that enabled the U.S. to reach the Moon.
Space

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