Aviation Week & Space Technology

The $805 million contract is just the start of what might blossom into $7 billion in carrier-based, aerial refueling tanker work.

The U.S. Navy is working on various challenges for the last of the Joint Strike Fighter versions, still hoping to have it ready for battle by early next year.

Upcoming aviation and aerospace industry events and Aviation Week Network events.

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

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

Boeing has finalized a landing gear design for the 737-10 taller than other MAX models, for the same wheel well. How was this innovative design achieved?

Boeing’s finalized landing gear design for the 737-10 is taller than the other MAX models, but which still fits in the same wheel well. See how this innovatively packaged design was achieved.

Readers discuss ramp security at airports, repurposing KC-135s for wildfire-fighting role, and weigh the merits of pilotless cockpits.

Rearranging existing space often means coming up with better ways to serve both passengers and tenants while accepting constraints of an airport’s footprint.

India plans to buy maritime helicopters; quantifying the space force; aerospace wins AI challenge, and Brazil joins space situational awareness team.

NASA aims to leverage commercial satellite technology and industry practices into a power and propulsion module for a lunar-orbiting gateway.

Orders revealed at the Farnborough Airshow have raised questions about their actual status. The lack of clarity is damaging, not least for the manufacturers.

Boomer retirements may portend one of the greatest gold rushes in living memory: small and midsize M&A.

Hypersonic weapons testing and fielding will enhance the B-52H’s long-range strike capability.

The vision of airport innovators is to create a network of labs working collaboratively to serve customers better and increase revenue.

Aviation Week was invited to observe the first time the U.S. Navy F-35C conducted operational testing on an aircraft carrier.

Boeing revives Quiet Technology Demonstrator series to evaluate a new low-drag acoustic liner on a 737-7 testbed.

The top 10 countries account for 87% of world aerospace output, but will face a challenge by China as it tries to assert aerospace dominance.

Coalition airpower has helped deplete the so-called Islamic State terrorist group’s presence in Iraq and Syria.

New urgency, linked to engine sustainability and need for outsize hypersonic weapon launch capability, drives potential acceleration of B-52H reengining plan.

European air transport is currently at the edge. In June, 49% of all flights were delayed on arrival, according to data released by Eurocontrol.

Bye flies StratoAirNet; Singapore’s solar quadcopter; Boeing’s synchronized UAVs; Echodyne’s radar approved; UK BVLOS drone corridor.

U.S. defense acquisition reform redux,includes a surge of interest in other transaction agreements (OTA) and concern that they can lead to big problems later.

The vast amount of China’s intermediate-size cities could bode well for a surge in narrowbody aircraft to serve those destinations.

What the latest acquisitions by Boeing and Lockheed, and a possible sale by Maxar, tell us about the future of LEO, smallsats and geosats.