Aviation Week & Space Technology

Willard Custer’s mid-20th century channel wing is back on the drawing board as a possible way to combine vertical flight with efficient cruise.

Israeli F-35s practice aerial refueling; Russian Helicopters starts work on Mi-38T transporters and produces first Mi-28UB dual-control helo; Cobham to supply KF-X weapons ejectors; Romania’s whopping artillery order.

Major acquisitions can take an enormous amount of time to achieve. A UTC/Rockwell deal would be in the very early stages of discussion.

Top service officials believe a light-attack fleet would provide an additional track to season new fighter pilots.

Carrier trials preceded by synthetic testing led by UK F-35 pilot community.

Faced with a flood of Earth imagery, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is considering commercial partnerships that go well beyond traditional defense procurements.

Surf Air, the California membership carrier, is expanding to Texas and Europe and is looking beyond those destinations.

Hawaiian’s Dunkerley proposes fresh approach to promote new entrant competition at increasingly congested airports around the world.

The service has identified the key technologies it needs for the F-22 follow-on, including a more powerful engine and increased stealth.

The 21 launches will include the second test flight of India's heaviest rocket—the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle or GSLV Mk.3..

A kickstarter campaign has won pledges for the $5 million project from 15 countries as the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing nears.

Completing development in four years might be easy enough if AIDC were just chasing the cockpit and avionics of the F-CK-1. But 80% of the structure is also changing and so are the aerodynamics.

Billie Flynn, the Lockheed Martin test pilot who flew the F-35A's premiere aerobatic performance at the Paris Air Show, opens up about what it's like to flight test both the F-16 and the Joint Strike Fighter.

The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.

Scottish cargo UAS; JAXA lift-fan VTOL; long-endurance drones; simpler solar UAS; Frigate FreeJet airliner; designer’s take on airliners

Who will dominate the coming urban air mobility market? At least one industry investor thinks he has a clue and has a list of startups to watch.

Full-scale development of a new Taiwanese fighter could probably begin in early to mid-2020s. Taiwan has 343 front-line fighters that will need replacing.

The collapse of what once was Germany’s second-largest airline triggers fundamental change throughout the air transport market in Europe’s largest economy.

When it comes to the advent of pilotless commercial aircraft, just follow the money, a new report says.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, General Atomics is trying to “educate” lawmakers to keep U.S. UAS technology at the forefront; the CBO scores the cost of ATC reform, and GAO sizes up the potential sale of old ICBM motors.

H225s have been cleared to return to service by British and Norwegian regulators, but Airbus finds demand from operators is frustratingly muted.

Curved touch screens, augmented reality, integrated smart systems that drastically reduce pilot workload—all these are coming in the no-to-distant future

The U.S. is striving to make its electronic warfare systems agile and flexible to offset advances made by potential adversaries.

First used in 2013 by British forces in Afghanistan, ultraportable nano-UAVs are growing in capability and applications.

A new name for Sukhoi’s T-50 fighter; Thailand seeks weapons for new frigate; Bahrain will join the ranks of C-130J-flying nations and Lockheed wins a major special operations logistics contract.