Aviation Week & Space Technology

Watch as editors break down why Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems and discuss Boeing’s turnaround which appears to have taken another step forward.

Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems as Boeing’s turnaround takes another step forward. Listen in as our editors break it all down.

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

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

Readers write about coverage of SpaceX, opinion columnists, inflatable space stations, electric aviation and prospects for U.S.-China space cooperation.

After three orbital flight tests, Boeing’s crewed passenger spacecraft still needs work.

This year’s winners represent an assortment of first-time entrants and veteran Aviation Week Photo Contest entrants.

Reaching its 2025 delivery goal was always going to be challenging for Airbus. Now it turns out it is unachievable.

A roundup of upcoming conferences and exhibitions.

With backgrounds in photography, journalism, art and design, our judges bring an appreciation for aesthetics and love of aviation.

The author of the 1997 U.S. defense acquisition reform plan critiques Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new strategy.

The Middle East, as the crucible for challenging durability and performance conditions, is the focus for ongoing dust ingestion engine tests.

We need clarity about the regulations and access to loan funds for students, to ensure the pipeline of up-and-coming pilots is not slowed.

The agency’s Lift Challenge aims for at least a fourfold increase in drone payload-to-weight capability.

A sense of urgency led member states to fuel ESA with record funding.

The controller would transition to a supervisory role, no longer dealing with routine operations such as frequency changes, automation promoters say.

X-plane escapes cancellation; China’s hybrid powertrains; Modular cargo UAV, India’s indigenous aircraft.

Strategic decisions loom for some of the biggest Western airlift programs.

Inexpensive, mass-produced cruise missiles could ensure that the U.S. and allies have enough firepower to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

From low-cost drone interceptors to advanced cruise missiles to air-to-air missiles, the United Arab Emirates wants to do it all.

Powertrain demonstrators advance under Airbus’ rescoped effort to field a hydrogen-electric commercial aircraft.

The United Arab Emirates is emerging as a hive for light attack and training aircraft developments with further offers from Calidus and Edge Group.

The United Arab Emirates is shifting its space program focus to economic gains and security, blending civil-military efforts in a bid to become a space power.

The U.S. Coast Guard is set to receive $24.59 billion through 2029 for fleet modernization, including a controversial $172 million G700 purchase.

For Emirates’ long-haul fleet, the challenge is twofold: maintaining aging widebodies while looking beyond their likely life spans to the next big thing.