Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
Only NASA’s Juno spacecraft remains in orbit around a planet beyond Mars, and its days also are numbered.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
Chinese pilots previously had to have remarkable eyesight and could not be too short. Now standards have been relaxed.
Air Transport

By Jay Menon
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft was lost on Aug. 31.
Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX recovery teams retrieved the company’s 12th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission capsule from Pacific waters early Sept. 17.
Commercial Space

By Adrian Schofield
Stopgap measures such as bonuses must give way to longer-term sustainable strategies to shore up the pilot pipeline. Photo credit: Boeing
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Striker 2 helmet could bring augmented reality into the Typhoon cockpit.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The French engine-maker says turbofan improvements will continue while parallel studies of hybrid and all-electric propulsion studies ramp up.
Aerospace

Watch as Aviation Week's Lara Seligman joins Thunderbird No. 7 Lt. Col. Kevin Walsh, a career F-16 pilot, as he runs through the Thunderbirds’ best-known maneuvers one by one in the skies over the eastern U.S.
ShowNews

By Thierry Dubois
ATRs new marketing efforts are paying off with firm orders in regions where it was previously unsuccessful.
Air Transport

Peter Huessy
The U.S. is ignoring China’s role on the peninsula at its own peril.
ShowNews

By Graham Warwick
LeoLabs teams with Planet; Swiss demo U-space; fuel cell powers multicopter drone.
Aerospace

AIM Aerospace Corp. has named Daniele Cagnatel president and CEO. He had been president/CEO of GKN Aerostructures North America.

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Readers comment on the viability of pilotless cockpits, disruptive industry techniques vs. tried-and-true engineering and debate language describing Air Traffic Organization reform.
Feedback

U.S. Air Force may consider survivability when evaluating special missions platforms, which could hurt the chances of commercial and business jet derivatives.
ShowNews

By Jens Flottau
Richard Branson’s sale of 31% of his Virgin Atlantic stake is a sign of the times in commercial aviation.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick, Jens Flottau
Aviation Week editors delve into the C Series price dumping battle and opine on whether there is a better way for the industry to settle its differences
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The race to secure new STEM talent is now one of the top workforce concerns of industry, and it should be for investors and shareholders, too.
Workforce

By Joe Anselmo
Aviation Week’s team of more than two dozen editors casts a wide net around the globe, but we don’t see everything. That is why it is vital that we receive outside nominations. Know of an individual or achievement in the last year that deserves recognition? Nominate them for the 2018 Laureate Awards.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jens Flottau
It is too easy to find the wiggle room in much of the regulations that govern Europe’s airline sector. Tighter rules should be enacted to keep the playing field level for all carriers.
Air Transport

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

By Graham Warwick
The Canadian and UK governments have stepped up pressure on Boeing, but the U.S. manufacturer is not backing down from its trade dispute with Bombardier over the price of C Series airliners sold to Delta Air Lines.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jen DiMascio
In this week's Washington Outlook: Skies in the U.S. are safe but slow, and an ongoing debate over how to secure the borders.
Air Transport

Jim Adams
Aerospace and defense is a worthwhile industry to work in, but companies need to sell that to workers with many options.
Workforce

Boeing, Leonardo DRS and Lockheed are the final contenders for the Air Force’s $16 billion T-X competition, ahead of a down-select this fall.
ShowNews