Aviation Week & Space Technology

Bruce Whitman of Flight Safety International was awarded the Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award at Aviation Week's 61st annual Laureate Awards at the National Building Museum in Washington on March 1, 2018.

Intelsat is driving innovation in the way it transmits data to smaller and smaller terminals and in its business models.

The U.S.’s planned development of a low-yield nuclear SLBM and SLCM punctuates a turning point in the long-running drive toward arms reduction as Putin also unveils new weapons meant to undermine Western missile defenses.

A growing number of systems is available to counter small unmanned aircraft, but few if any are designed to repel an attack by a swarm of drones.

Qantas is shifting its attention to investing in its future fleet, but the carrier is remaining rigorous in its value analysis.

The General Dynamics’ purchase of CRSA confirms that larger scale matters in federal IT services.

The U.S. Air Force wants to lease commercial bandwidth to build an agile, resilient communications network for the modern battlefield.

DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.

As new eVTOL concepts continue to emerge and others enter flight test, the mainstream helicopter industry is coming to terms with the prospects of an urban air mobility revolution.

Aiming to build a force of 180 fighters by 2024, Indonesia has ordered Su-35s and is looking for a possible Western combat aircraft contract.

The large U.S. helicopter concern Era Group intends to take two AW609s in 2020.

Avic will probably not begin deliveries of its new turboprop before 2022. Fabrication of the first prototype has begun.

Kopter Group bags biggest order tally at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas, and the market is finally looking up.

Italian carrier Meridiana is rebranding as Air Italy, aiming to compete with growing LCCs and insolvent Alitalia, whose ongoing woes highlight the challenge.

The Falcon 6X retains most of the Falcon 5X’s systems, and Its PW812D engines are new and lighter-weight versions of the PW814GA and PW815GA turbofans.

Bombardier exec talks about C Series plans with Airbus and his take on a potential Boeing-Embraer tie-up.

Portable jamming devices and fixed-site systems that avoid jamming to prevent collateral interference with radio signals are among counterdrone products of interest to early buyers.

Michigan-based Orbion is aiming to fly Hall effect thruster on smallsat in 2019.

Upon merging with American Medical Response, Air Medical Group Holdings will become the largest patient transport operation in the world.

India’s indigenous UAS; L-39NG airframe assembly begins; Italian Air Force’s new Predator training system, and Kratos to upgrade C2 system for Boeing satellites.

The first batch of F-35As will replace Japan’s 51 remaining F-4EJ Kai Phantoms. More could replace some F-15s.

Uber's Director of Aviation Engineering and eVTOL leading light Mark Moore talks with Aviation Week’s Tony Osborne and Guy Norris about the coming revolution in urban air mobility—a key talking point at this year's HAI Helo-Expo convention in Las Vegas.

Boeing has designed a prayer space concept that provides a private zone for religious passengers to practice their beliefs without the need to remove rows of seats.

Commercial companies are importing dozens of F1s, F-5s and F-16s to meet the Pentagon’s growing demand for aerial combat training services.

TESS expected to find targets for future exoplanet atmospheric studies by James Webb Space Telescope.