Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Tony Osborne
Israel denies Russian claims and blames Syrian forces for indiscriminate anti-aircraft fire.
Defense

By William Garvey
The multipurpose mission will be the second Earth circumnavigation for pilot Robert DeLaurentis.
Business Aviation

By Irene Klotz
As the International Space Station marks 20 years in low Earth orbit, NASA faces new imperative to expand its commercial realm.
Space

By Irene Klotz
An early customer for BFR puts a meaningful dent in estimated $5 billion development cost of BFR, says Musk.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
MBDA has begun flight-testing an armed eVTOL aircraft concept.
Defense

By Bernie Baldwin
Designers of the new generation of crossover narrowbody jets have taken into account the cabin crew.
Small Narrowbody Jets

By Guy Norris
Revised compressor blade design nears certification as Rolls uses flying testbed to validate durability of Trent 1000 with cracks still in place.
Air Transport

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Jens Flottau
With poor spares availability, Interjet wants to reduce its Superjet fleet, and Brussels Airlines is looking for wet-lease alternatives.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force hits point of no return on multidomain operational strategy.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Thierry Dubois, Guy Norris, Victoria Moores
Boeing’s upcoming decisions will be an indication of how it plans to curb the NMA’s life-cycle cost.
Program Management

By Tony Osborne
Fundamental change for ETPS coming with new fleet and modernized learning processes.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Beijing’s business travelers are likely to prefer Capital International after the new airport at Daxing opens. But airlines see Daxing as having its own market.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Airbus’ Silicon Valley outpost lays out a road map for transforming low-altitude airspace to enable growth in unmanned aircraft and autonomous air taxis.
Connected Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
With the communications satellite market still in flux, launch service providers are counting on aggregators and manufacturers to broaden their product ranges.
Space

By Jens Flottau
Airbus promotes company veteran Christian Scherer to the key post of sales chief, following Eric Schulz’s unexpected resignation.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
Hawkeye 360 is just the latest small satellite company to attract attention from the U.S. defense industry.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
Russia is investigating how a drill hole ended up in the upper section of a Soyuz capsule that carried three crewmembers to the ISS in June.
Space

By Guy Norris, Michael Bruno
Boeing, Spirit AeroSystems and CFM all say they are almost back on track, but the depth of 737 production issues has become much clearer recently.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Comac’s braced wing; Tiltwing intercity VTOL; NASA’s UAM Challenge; Longer-flying drone; Transatlantic on biofuel
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
The agency is prioritizing discoveries that keep existing platforms lethal, even if an opponent has equivalent or superior technologies.
Defense

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By Joe Anselmo
Nominations for the 2019 Laureates Awards close Oct. 18, and submissions to the photo contest are open until Oct. 22.
Air Transport

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Some inroads are made in employee diversity in aerospace sectors, but more remains to be done.
Workforce

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

By Tony Osborne
Vertical Aerospace wants to take on the airlines with intercity services using carbon-free eVTOL air vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion