Aviation Week & Space Technology

By William Garvey
Gary Dempsey, the National Air Transportation Association’s new president, has a full range of issues to address and resolve, especially illegal charters.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
UK Flight Trials off U.S. Eastern seaboard are integrating F-35 and HMS Queen Elizabeth-class carrier.
Air Dominance

By Sean Broderick
The FAA is rolling out a taxiway landing warning system.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
The new on-site assembly process at the Ariane 6 launchpad is intended to trim costs by 40%.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Target Arm will showcase a prototype universal launch and recovery system for unmanned aircraft at a U.S. Army technology demonstration.
Aerospace

By Bill Carey
Leading providers of Ka-band satellite connectivity for aircraft cabins discuss their strategies at APEX Expo.
Connected Aerospace

Piotr Butowski
The MiG-31 interceptor has taken on new tasks as the Kinzhal ground-strike system and as an aerospace missile system that can deliver small satellites to orbit or fight enemy satellites.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo, MBDA and Qinetiq are providing the technologies for the UK’s directed-energy weapon capability demonstrator.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
DLR cuts aircraft noise; Airbus tests teaming; Bell demos Hydra; NASA picks demos; Airbus backs Biosteel.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
Increasingly, it matters where an aerospace company decides to base manufacturing, and new rankings parse the best from the rest, starting with Washington state.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
To be located in New Zealand, orbit-debris-mapping startup LeoLab’s latest ground radar will track objects down to 2 cm in size.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
A new Pentagon rule change would slow cash flow to contractors until they prove they deserve it with good performance. Industry is shooting back.
Defense

New Pentagon undersecretary of defense for research and engineering says the U.S.’s real work of developing hypervelocity weapons systems is just beginning.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
Boeing’s Leonardo-designed aircraft eclipses Sikorsky to win $2 billion Huey replacement contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Technology needs to be proven carefully, but the service should not risk losing funds budgeted for a multidomain command-and-control system of networks.
Defense

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By Graham Warwick
In tests in Australia, using a Cessna Caravan iron bird, startup MagniX runs its electric motor with a propeller for the first time.
Aerospace

Some industry watchers are concerned that a provision of a bill clearing the way for the FAA to regulate minimum seat sizes could allow Congress to overstep its bounds.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Transcend Air defines an approach to intercity air travel that combines schedule services with tiltwing VTOL aircraft.
Air Transport

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

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

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force’s contract for trainers comes on the heels of Huey replacement and carrier-based UAV wins.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The four-year competition to supply U.S. engine for new Vulcan rocket ends with Jeff Bezos-backed BE-4 toppling traditional supplier.
Space

By Guy Norris, Irene Klotz
Spaceplane drives design of world’s largest additively made liquid rocket engine for Stratolaunch family of vehicles.
Space

By Guy Norris
PGA-powered high-speed vehicle could double-up as stepping stone to Black Ice spaceplane as well as hypersonic flying testbed.
Space