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Launched in Sao Paulo, the Voom on-demand helicopter booking service has emerged from A³, Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost charged with incubating and demonstrating disruptive ideas

Hypersonic developments in China and Russia suggest the U.S. could easily lose its lead.

United Flight 3411 debacle causes lasting damage to the airline.

​The Space Foundation has named U.S. Navy Rear Adm. (ret.) Thomas E. Zelibor as CEO. New executives at Safran Nacelle, BMI, Engility Holdings Inc., Club One Air, Passur Aerospace Inc., U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee., EnCore Group.

Flight-test engineers and test pilots must learn to evaluate the characteristics of a digital control system in an airborne environment complete with G forces.

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Saudi efforts to drive out shale producers by boosting production lead to new techniques that keep prices down. But cheap fuel may hurt fleet renewals.

Timeline shows key dates in Tomahawk cruise missile's history, including program milestones and uses in battle.

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

The Army is crunching data to prove whether the Lakota is delivering a better aviator.

Aurora Flight Sciences’ long-endurance Orion UAV is hoping to transition from tech demonstration to deployed military system.

Canada Halts CH-148 Flights, Leonardo beefs up the light-attack version of its M-346, Rostec plans to upgrade Russian Iskander missiles and India is developing lightweight torpedoes for export.

Is adding more seats really going to revive flagging sales for the world’s largest passenger aircraft? Or is the A380 already too large? Listen in as our editors discuss.

Readers weigh in on U.S. Air Force Tanker choice, Airbus A320neo "report card," safety gaffes and dearth of experienced pilots, and women in high-tech fields.

Skunk Works conducts flight tests to show how autonomous technology can enable unmanned aircraft to make manned fighters more effective in hostile environments.

Lakota is taking over the training role as the U.S. Army’s single-engine helicopters exit inventory.

DARPA video of vertical takeoff and landing flight tests of Aurora Flight Sciences' subscale demonstrator for it XV-24A LightningStrike VTOL X-Plane.

With the biggest windows ever flown into space, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space tourism vehicle will provide an unprecedented view.

CAE uses Grob G 120TPs and simulator motherships for an innovative Army training program.

Britain’s NATS expects 2008’s air travel record highs to be exceeded as demand for airspace increases.

United’s CEO “made a horrific situation worse,” when he sent an email praising employees following Sunday’s incident. Listen in as our editors discuss the broader damage the incident has done to the U.S. airline industry.

United Airlines’ response to a social media backlash from forcefully removing a passenger from an overbooked flight was weak.

Industry is seeing a dramatic shift in launch hardware as the spacefaring nations of the world prepare new rockets for peaceful and not-so-peaceful access to orbit and beyond.

The package of cabin updates should free up enough cabin floor space to increase seating from the average of 497 on A380s now in operation to 575 in four classes, substantially growing airline revenues.

Although Rolls-Royce continues to dominate the high-thrust engine market for large-cabin, long-range business jets, the company’s position is under attack.