Aviation Week & Space Technology

The small, expendable decoy BriteCloud is being deployed on the UK’s Tornado fleet.

China’s mandatory technology-transfer policy is having a deleterious effect on its aerospace development strategy.

Lange Aviation develops a unique fuel-cell-powered surveillance aircraft with long endurance, high redundancy and reliability and low operating costs and emissions.

Dubai-based Jetex Flight Support commits to installing a charging network to support private flights using Wright Electric’s planned nine-seat electric aircraft.

Israeli companies have miniaturized combat aircraft technologies to protect the Israeli Air Force’s growing fleets of UAS.

Research and development efforts envision highly integrated, easier to use flight controls.

The delayed ramp-up means most of the C Series orderbook still lies ahead, although new sales have remained slow.

New European fighter will maintain Europe’s industrial capability but come with a hefty price tag. Cover photo: Tony Osborne/AW&ST

The Trump administration’s new policies on conventional arms transfers and unmanned aircraft system sales are intended to ease commercial sales.

Russia’s unmanned helicopter, Fly Airbus, drive Audi; Aeryon’s defense drone, DLR’s new flying testbed, and insurer backs safer drones.

The rising demand for small satellites is aligning with rapid growth in companies such as Virgin Orbit, Vector, Rocket Labs and others. Plus, Aviation Week editors assess prospects for sending humans to suborbital space this year.

A former space shuttle astronaut helps us see that what happens in orbit makes a big difference to people’s lives on the ground.

In a region where at times widebodies are used for intraregional services, crossover jet OEMs must change Middle East carriers’ mindset.

To support a higher flight rate, the company sought out and adopted manufacturing processes and personnel from other industries.

Dynetics to demonstrate the airborne launch and recovery of volleys of low-cost UAS under a DARPA program to expand the potential uses of unmanned aircraft.

The U.S. Homeland Security and Justice departments seek congressional grant of authority to defend against rogue drones.

New mega-constellations of satellites are forcing a rethink about how to manage traffic in low Earth orbit.

Malaysian company hawks Turkish UAV, MDA’s missile-hunting software endeavors, UK company wins Indian border-watch contract, and Mexico cleared to buy Sikorsky MH-60Rs.

DARPA cancellation of an ambitious VTOL X-plane program underlines the challenges facing industry in developing hybrid-electric and distributed-electric propulsion systems

More SS2s are in production as The Spaceship Co. broadens its portfolio to include other aerospace and transport products.

General Atomics, Phantom Works and Skunk Works have uncloaked their MQ-25A designs as decision time approaches. Here’s what we now know.

Honda Aircraft handed over 43 HondaJets in 2017, only the second full year of deliveries. Its North Carolina plant is designed to build six units a month.

The former congressman has been a champion of commercial space efforts, which should serve him well as SpaceX and Boeing prepare to launch humans to space.

After a 60-year production run, the Pilatus PC-6 Porter line is shutting down.

Aviation Week talks to the head of the Italian Air Force about the JSF and the service's other needs.