Aviation Week & Space Technology

Increasing capabilities of new narrowbody aircraft prompting more airlines to consider using them for long-range routes traditionally flown by widebodies.

Acceptance plans are confirmed for 36 KC-46s in 2019, but Boeing is pushing for additional deliveries.

How India’s aerospace and defense manufacturing base is emerging, one step at a time.

Costs appear to be under control, though increasing unit revenues will challenge U.S. carriers.

V-280 makes 280 kt.; UK looks at AI, Boeing eVTOL flies, Sweden flies biofuel; Airbus AI challenge.

For Bombardier, the move addresses the fate of its aerostructures unit. For Triumph, the sale is the latest in a string of sell-offs.

The leasing industry continues to attract outside investors as private equity firms mull GECAS takeover.

The little-known Canadian company is poised to take over production and support of one of the most widely used regional-turboprop families, the Dash 8 and Q400.

Embraer hopes the commercial aircraft joint venture with Boeing will kickstart a development that it alone has not yet achieved.

Airbus Helicopters has come from virtually nowhere in a little over 15 years to become the third biggest maker of military rotorcraft in the U.S.

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

Finding the right balance will be important not just for heritage contractors, but for the Pentagon’s ability to attract new companies to meet its needs.

Readers discuss the Person of the Year choice, add texture to hypersonic technology history and weigh in on Upset Prevention and Recovery Training mandates.

U.S. missile architecture, now focused on limited attacks and intercepting targets in midcourse and terminal phases, is being reshaped for a wider range of threats.

The Air Force’s acceptance of a new refueling tanker will allow the company to start recovering $3.5 billion in losses incurred during eight years of development.

Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.

Commercial funding not only enhances great American research organizations, but it also creates them—just look at the Smithsonian Institution.

A two-type fleet, while expensive, could balance the tension between European and transatlantic partners, says a German thinktank.

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

Listen in as our editors discuss the shocking turnabout for the late Paul Allen’s air-launch space company and other recent churn in the space launch market.

A near-term capacity crunch and next-generation fighter costs conspired to force the Air Force to reconsider non-stealthy combat aircraft.

January was not kind for space businesses. If it is a bellwether for the rest of the year, 2019 might be a year of de-orbiting some expectations.

The chief of the Airbus Engineering Center in Mobile talks about big changes coming to aircraft cabin interiors.

The first rocket officially named Soyuz was launched in 1966 and has since flown 1,050 times, of which 1,023 were successful.