Aviation Week & Space Technology

Compared with a coronagraph, a starshade has a wider field of view and can allow the telescope to see planets closer to their star.

Russia’s new ground-based satellite-zapping system; Indonesia buys Bell, Airbus helos; India’s Tejas edges closer to full operations; Staff changes at Pentagon.

The commander-in-chief’s attacks put the USS Gerald R. Ford’s subsystem in the spotlight.

Skepticism in the supply chain lingers over going beyond new production targets for making airliners already outlined for 2019.

A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.

Need workers? Got workers but they don’t have the right skills? After decades of shedding employees, A&D finds itself in a race to staff-up ahead of everything. What should companies do?

Rolls-Royce-led team wants to beat 210-mph record set by Siemens-modified Extra 330 in 2017.

If the U.S. is to retain leadership in hypersonics, a sustained increase in university research programs is critical.

The former Southwest CEO was a master of employee relations and an important innovator.

More automation does not necessarily lead to more safety; the role of pilots needs to be reconsidered.

UK will strengthen drone laws later this year with new register and online safety test.

With more than five decades of ducted fan and tiltrotor experience, Bell is combining new technology with old concepts to take on emerging air taxi revolution.

Electric speed bid; electrification road map; Boom builds funds; UAM market forecast; other technology news.

General Atomics accelerates MQ-9B flight-test progress as UK issues airworthiness requirements for Protector RG1 variant.

Airbus is making the most of new communications technologies to help carriers share safety information.

From reshaping the supply chain to big wins in defense, his actions have reverberated across the industry.

After recently acquiring WACO Aircraft, the president of the company plans to double worker headcount and production rate of its biplanes.

The Avangard test highlights the looming threat facing NATO from Russian hypersonic weaponry.

The manufacturer is preparing to begin series production in 2019. A separate requirement for attack helicopters has been deferred.

Aviation Week editors discuss Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan’s career as Boeing’s Mr. Fix-It and whether he will stand up to President Trump.

Halfway in, the Trump administration’s effect on the industry is muted, and there are major issues undecided.

Western UAV manufacturers could find a way back into the Middle Eastern UAV market as challenges with Chinese-made models mount.

New-model deliveries poised to bring a needed boost to a fitter, more focused business-aircraft industry

Training partnerships, facility expansions and simulator sales point to concerted effort to produce pilots.

Quantum Challenge; flying-car progress; Airbus IDs drones; generative design; Vanuatu drones.