Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berlin is concerned about Riyadh’s war in Yemen and the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Technologies from F-22 and F-35 are added to F-16 to entice India. But the MiG-35, Su-35 or Rafale could minimize fleet fragmentation.

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

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

Targeting and reconnaissance pods extended the AMX's life as a cost-effective ground-attack and recce platform, but the aircraft will be retired in 2021.

CityAirbus arriving; Siemens-powered regional; tackling icing dangers; a better Hero; electrifying rotorcraft.

Rolls’ composite fan and case evaluation marks the next step toward full-scale UltraFan flight-test demonstration.

Rapid movement of the Earth’s northern magnetic pole focuses attention on aviation’s reliance on magnetic navigation.

From the loss of 40N6E missiles in the English Channel to Russia’s attempt to sell the air defense system to Saudi Arabia, and the politics of sanctions, Defense Editor Steve Trimble discusses new developments from the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi.

Readers discuss merits of Nexus' UAM, ramifications of SpaceX layoffs, reasons behind thin profit margins on some A&D programs, clarify Taiwan's status.

Superbly engineered but environmentally and economically flawed, Concorde is a key source of lessons learned for today’s supersonic aircraft developers as the design icon marks its golden anniversary.

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Too fast and too slow: lessons learned from two failed and very different supersonic transport ventures.

Hybrid system would improve autorotation safety and could increase payload capabilities.

One of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties in 2014 is now a mechanical test engineering manager for Northrop Grumman’s James Webb Space Telescope program.