Aviation Week & Space Technology

Asia-Pacific Air Transport Editor Adrian Schofield takes a closer look at some of the challenges to Queenstown night operations, and how they are being addressed with technology in the air and on the ground.

Dassault’s Falcon 5x development faces another delay related to problems uncovered during tests of Safran’s Silvercrest engine.

The National Business Aviation Association show in Las Vegas was subdued, but behind-the-scenes activity gives reason for optimism.

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

Brexit is just one of the issues British budget and leisure airlines must overcome, along with cost pressures and terrorism.

In this week's Washington Outlook: The Eastern European nation is rebuilding its industrial base, Pentagon acquisition chief will cede power to services, another spat about how open the skies should be, and a way to form national regulations for UAS.

Readers discuss tires shredding on runways; question Boeing's motives in C Series price-dumping dispute; decry F-35 development costs; compare Perlan 2/Alcor gliders.

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Boeing, Lockheed and Raytheon are rallying to develop U.S.’s next-generation Multi-Object Kill Vehicle.

GM unveils an autonomous, fuel-cell-powered vehicle platform as it works with aerospace industry to evaluate technology for quiet, clean power generation.

Training machines to look for missile-launch sites; Greece considers options for F-16 upgrades; the first GPS III satellite is ready for launch, and Russia’s next airborne early warning aircraft

Decades of progress toward free trade in jetliners could be undone in a few years. And Boeing could end up losing a lot in the end.

The Ground-Based Interceptor is the central flight component of the Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense system and is topped by the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle.

What are the ramifications of trade complaints by Boeing and U.S. airlines? Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia joins Aviation Week and ATW editors to discuss.

“The next few months may be rather stressful for most deal-makers in the A&D sector,” say some who should know.

The U.S. Air Force has taken the next step in its plan to transition from the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine after issuing a request for proposals (RFP) for co-investment in up to three next-generation launch vehicles.

A new regulation addresses cybersecurity at defense primes and their suppliers, or better yet, the lack thereof, which has led to problems in the past.

More than 100 helicopters may be needed to support offshore wind farms.

Everyone is waiting to see how the Trump administration will handle this long-simmering controversy.

Raytheon’s Space Factory is winding down production of the EKV as engineers begin developing the next kill vehicle.

Aurora acquisition gives Boeing pole position in initial subsonic X-plane risk-reduction contracts.

Concerns over the speed at which sustainable aviation fuels can be certified and supplies sufficiently produced leave question marks.

With enough additional funding, Raytheon says it could give the Pentagon’s SM-3 interceptor the ability to defeat longer-range ballistic missiles.

Boeing’s complaints about C Series subsidies are getting the media attention, but Bombardier’s willingness to transfer technologies and knowhow to China is at the heart of this trade dispute.

Airbus tests urban eVTOL propulsion, Israel’s IAI demos unmanned helicopter, Cambridge Consultants develops drone that navigates by GPS to user’s smartphone location, NASA tests inflight wing-folding, BAE floats fixed-/rotary-wing adaptive UAV, and NTSB investigates New York drone-helicopter collision