Aviation Week & Space Technology

India’s Light Combat Aircraft demonstrates missile integration, Israel’s Air Force replaces Sea Scan patrol aircraft with Heron UAVs, a longer-range loitering UAV, and U.S. approves more Patriot missiles for UAE.

Israel’s Airobotics breaks new ground with approval to operate automated drones remotely for missions such as site surveys and security patrols.

Leanne Caret, president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the revival of fighter programs, the state of play on the KC-46A tanker, the importance of T-X and more.

Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.

Finding usable water on the Moon would boost space exploration, but extracting it is likely to be a challenge.

China’s big and influential airlines can only see the arrival of famously efficient AirAsia as a threat that must be contained.

From the big rockets for human spaceflight to the swarms of tiny cubesats revolutionizing data and bandwidth, the space economy is making a name for itself.

New financial incentives and links to mainland China will be key to establishing Hong Kong as an aircraft leasing hub.

Although rare, the split-elevator scenario in the ATR 42 and 72 can overstress the aircraft’s horizontal stabilizer due to a newly uncovered control system phenomenon.

More than 30 years old, NASA’s FUN3D computational fluid dynamics code is powerful, versatile—and doesn’t run fast enough, even on a supercomputer.

The six-metric-ton T625 is the result of Turkish program launched in 2013 to locally produce a rotorcraft that could replace hundreds of aging UH-1 Hueys.

Marine Corps is touting the stealthy JSF in training exercises in Japan, South Korea, and Alaska.

Turkey’s fighter will be twin-engine, but the choice of a powerplant has not yet been made.

Unmanned aircraft in the news: BNSF flies true BVLOS; Satcom for small UAS; Swift flies over water; Snipe nano-UAS delivered; Indago quadcopter upgraded; Redkite wide-area imagery from small UAS.

Some Wall Street analysts suggest Vought’s insolvency warning might be a ploy to bolster Triumph in negotiations with OEM customers.

Boeing says it remains confident that delivery of the first 737-8 to Lion Air Group carrier Malindo Air will take place by month’s end.

Officials won't offer date North Korea could marry nuclear warhead with ICBM; administration may expand laptop ban; Trump takes aim at carrier launch system.

Major aerospace manufacturers aim to provide commercial drone operating and data processing services to large customers beyond the military UAS market.

An analysis from space industry boosters in Washington seems aimed at the future, but really it is a warning about not repeating the past.

Etihad’s management is facing the consequences of a flawed business strategy that saw it throw good money after bad in an attempt to beat rival Emirates.

Last month, Aviation Week pilot Fred George strapped into the left seat of the updated version of the world’s best-selling jetliner. Listen in as he discusses the flight and technical upgrades. Also, our senior editor and resident Boeing expert Guy Norris breaks down the status of the flight test program and on-going inspections of the Leap-1B engines.

UPS has appointed Juan Perez chief information and engineering officer, to oversee alignment of the company's technology and engineering teams and smart logistics network.

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Aviation Week’s pilot notes Boeing’s Leap-engined 737-8 has bigger displays and refinements such as fly-by-wire spoilers. Only a short training course is needed to upgrade from the 737NG.