Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Improved safety, noise and efficiency for GA aircraft is the goal of startup VoltAero, led by a former Airbus CTO.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
KC-390 nears operational capability; Indian Navy chooses Barak 8; Israel nears heavy helo decision; Indonesia wants a break on KF-X, and Raytheon’s Amraam boost.
Defense

By Byron Callan
Will this wave continue? The prudent answer is “yes”—but with lots of caveats.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
Airbus appeared to be slowly overcoming its production issues but has found itself in the middle of another small crisis—introducing new A321neo versions.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
After steadying Air France’s labor conflict, new Air France-KLM CEO Benjamin Smith still faces many other hurdles.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
Yearly, China introduces systems to find, track and attack U.S. targets beyond the first chain of islands to its east; and yearly, the deployed numbers rise.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Shipborne rolling vertical landing was developed to yield payload bring-back benefits and reduce engine wear.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Major players in propulsion market look to leverage power strengths as work on electric and hybrid-electric demonstrators accelerates.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kevin Michaels
Aerospace OEMs need to look beyond shareholders.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The list of things that can go wrong for the aerospace and defense sector seems only to be growing. But to suppliers, happy days are here again.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
Following decades of steady investment China’s air force seeks to "go out."
Defense

By Graham Warwick
EASA proposes eVTOL airworthiness standards as NASA outlines plans for a Grand Challenge to advance urban air mobility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Michael O’Leary is famous for ruthlessly running Europe’s most successful LCC; a new bio sheds light on his personal ambitions and latest challenges.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Singapore air taxis; high-altitude UAVs; tern transitions; Stratobus test; repelling raptors; windowless cabins.
Aerospace

Anatoly Zak
Russia is aiming to return venerable Soyuz rocket to flight as early as Oct. 25.
Space

By Sean Broderick
United is growing fastest among the Big Four U.S. carriers.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Wearable, enhanced and combined vision systems prominent at National Business Aviation Association conference.
Business Aviation

By Irene Klotz
Here is a look at some of the more than two dozen public and private organizations that have unveiled lunar exploration and development programs.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault’s Rafale deal in India is under political pressure, but the airframer is adamant that an offset contract will materialize this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s Coulson Aircrane receives government support to modify more ex-airline 737-300s to firefighting airtankers.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
After 15 years of design and redesign is Aerion’s supersonic business jet finally ready for prime time?
Business Aviation

By Fred George
As the only new business jets unveiled at this year’s NBAA, Embraer’s Praetors build on the Legacy 450 and 500.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Aeralis wants to debut its common fuselage at next year's DSEI defense show in London.
Program Management

By Bradley Perrett
Detail design of the MA700 is complete, and work has begun on most of the structure at Avic’s civil-aircraft factories.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Philippines eyes Gripen fighters; NATO exercise crash kills two; French Army prepares new weapon for Sahel deployment, and India readies new missile defense system.
Defense