Aviation Week & Space Technology

Airbus, Bell, Boeing, Leonardo and Sikorsky are likely contenders to supply or help develop a new Japanese attack helicopter.

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

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

Italy’s government wants Alitalia to remain at least partly in Italian hands—but European airlines might still have a role to play.

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

Some operators of Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-powered A320neos are facing a new snag—unusually high engine vibration in the climb phase. Pratt indicated a fix may be identified by year-end.

The first GPS III is scheduled for launch in December, and Lockheed Martin is looking at technologies for a tranche of satellites.

The industry needs to do a better job of upgrading commercial aircraft avionics, ensuring pilots are kept in the loop and properly trained.

India’s Tejas nears operational milestone; Japan’s latest sea-based ballistic missile defense test; Sikorsky’s South American deliveries, and Russian company builds high-tech brain-harnessing helmet.

The Philippine LCC will get its first A321neos in December, so it can upgauge Manila flights, open longer routes and potentially replace older narrowbodies.

Adaptive-engine deal modified to focus on technology for sixth-generation fighter needs as parts arrive for building GE’s first XA100 demonstrator.

A look at some of the world’s up-and-coming positioning, navigation and timing constellations.

Low-cost carriers have grown rapidly across the Atlantic, but not without some financial pain involved.

The need for new workers—especially technology-oriented employees—and the difficulty in getting them is the talk of the industry.

Airbus Perlan 2 sets soaring record; Airbus spinoff sets sail; Uber shortlists international city contenders; Bell UAS demo for NASA, and JETcopter unveils air taxi concept.

Thousands of airliners are capable of using the Ground-Based Augmentation System, but only a few major U.S. airports now have the system.

The air force’s Pegase mission promoted French aircraft exports, as well as sending a message to China about the South China Sea.

Where the Pentagon is focusing cutting-edge RandD and what Boeing is telling investors about its airplane production crunch are the focus of this week’s discussion.

There could be a space-induced leap in human consciousness as we collectively become a spacefaring civilization.

After a tour of Boeing in Seattle and talks with leaders, analysts maintain confidence in OEM despite 737 glider growth.

Phase Four’s RF thruster plan marks progress toward lower-cost electric in-space propulsion.

Crossover narrowbodies—whose capacity falls between regionals and single-aisles—are almost all clean-sheet designs and have maintainability “designed in.”

The F-35B exists because of its commonality with the F-35A and F-35C, but all three variants are better aircraft because of the STOVL version challenges.

Defense plans outlines modernization through to the 2030s.

KaiserAir, an Oakland, California-based charter outfit, airline, FBO and management firm—and once part of an industrial colossus—is expanding further, very much on its own.