Aviation Week & Space Technology

A special target for the airlines’ appeals to experienced pilots are the ones who fly business aircraft.

High-altitude UAVs hold promise for both finding, fixing and shooting down rogue missiles.

No showstoppers from core and power gear system test results so far, as Rolls-Royce paves way toward Advance and UltraFan future engine demonstrators.

In its fiscal 2019 federal budget submission, the Trump administration proposes laying the groundwork to separate the FAA from its responsibility for ATC.

Deliveries of A320neo-family aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines have been halted after a recent spate of in-service problems.

The Pentagon has laid out an ambitious spending plan for the U.S. military this year, but several programs still got slashed.

New hypersonic, unmanned and small-satellite launch projects are included in the DARPA budget request.

The president has asked Congress to spent about $700 billion on the U.S. military in fiscal 2019, providing a cash infusion for fighter aircraft, the nuclear arsenal, missile defense, navy lasers and more.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Japan-based low-cost carriers are planning to grow their fleets and expand to new international markets.

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.

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

A reduced production rate could help the A400M find export orders.

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.

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

Engineers are focusing on the data’s update rate, availability, stability, coverage, latency and position accuracy.

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

Winners in the boosted Pentagon budget are likely to include space, cyber and nuclear weapons.

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

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