Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Closer study of Bauhaus Luftfahrt’s PFC confirms projected fuel savings from BLI, with wind-tunnel testing, higher-fidelity analysis and optimization next.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
At this point, the Outer Space Treaty legally applies only to countries, not commercial companies.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The new defense budget request is not a complete return to Cold War heydays for industry, but it is close enough for a marketplace that never truly left it.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Data-driven strategy set to go beyond engine support and production, to design and closer integration between future propulsion systems and airframes.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
With the damage and costs of wildfires soaring, Sikorsky has booked orders for up to 15 Firehawk firefighting helicopters in just a few months.
Business Aviation

By Adrian Schofield
Japan-based low-cost carriers are planning to grow their fleets and expand to new international markets.
Air Transport

The stakes are high for Boeing as the Navy looks to make a series of F/A-18 design changes in response to a surge in hypoxia-like episodes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The White House budget directs the space agency to wean from the International Space Station by 2025 and use commercial outposts instead.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
Testing has shown that drag of the airframe and the thrust-specific fuel consumption of the PW1200G engine are matching targets. There is time for improvement.
Air Transport

A navigation system developed by MIT models a drone’s situational uncertainty to help it fly fast in dense, cluttered environments.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
A reduced production rate could help the A400M find export orders.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Once the new constellation of 66 Iridium Next satellites is in place, Aireon plans to begin providing oceanic surveillance service.
Connected Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Engineers are focusing on the data’s update rate, availability, stability, coverage, latency and position accuracy.
Connected Aerospace

The two-year agreement includes overriding budget caps to bring defense and nondefense spending to new highs.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Airbus begins Skyways flights; Singapore creates urban drone zone; Marine squads get quadcopters; BAE tests weapons bays; V-Bat VTOL UAV shows endurance.
Aerospace

By Robert Stallard
Winners in the boosted Pentagon budget are likely to include space, cyber and nuclear weapons.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Guy Norris
Boeing unveils details of novel new landing gear design as 737-10 reaches firm configuration point.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
The good news for aircraft manufacturers: high demand; the bad news: supply chain lags.
Air Transport

By Irene Klotz
Company plans ‘hopper’ tech development program for interplanetary spaceship.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Boeing seems to have a popular concept in the NMA, but offers few clues on if it is any nearer to closing the business case for a widebody at narrowbody prices.
Air Transport

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

This week, all comments relate to a recent Viewpoint—"The U.S.'s Dangerous New Nuclear Policy"—which elicited a large number of responses.
Feedback

By Bradley Perrett
The C919 delivery objective has slipped again by one year, but Comac is at least publicly disclosing it, which probably indicates a higher level of confidence.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Thomas McCabe
The nation should prepare for an unlikely but not unthinkable possibility—a surprise attack by a modernized Chinese military.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The Low-Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability allows drone operators to fly in pre-approved airspace near airports.
Aerospace