Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Airbus Vahana takes shape; ARCA to fly aerospike; Germany’s quiet rotor; BVLOS goes commercial; India’s next RLV.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Efforts are underway to develop commercial markets for large unmanned aircraft of sizes well beyond the small drones now permitted.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Testing reveals consumer drones could cause more damage than bird strikes in aerial collisions.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. aerospace industry continues to shed workers, but it is skill sets that should have leaders most worried.
Defense

The world’s largest general aviation extravagance—and the de facto U.S. air show—again proved successful, with a dynamic mix of old and new technologies and players taking the stage
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Desktop Metals raises $115 million to back its bid to revolutionize additive manufacturing with a metal 3D-printing process it says is 100 times faster and 20 times cheaper than laser-based processes.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
In this week's Washington Outlook: Senator advocates first building sensor layer, Senate appropriators back NextGen ATM and NASA’s Mars-bound rocket and a look at what’s ahead for spending bills.
Defense

Babak Taghvaee
Iran’s most advanced weaponized UAV is in the midst of full production and has been deployed for domestic and international missions.
Defense

Frontier Airlines will add 21 destinations and 85 new routes while strengthening its Denver service, making its brand in reach for 90% of Americans.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Logos Technologies has shrunk wide-area moving-target surveillance into a package that can be carried by a tactical unmanned aircraft, and it does not plan to stop there.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
The 2016 crash of the Schiaparelli landing module leads to changes the European Space Agency hopes will mean success this time around.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Assembly of Czech training aircraft begins; Thai military preparing for more defense imports; Lockheed wins LRASM contract, and Hughes scores wideband satcom study deal.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Tony Osborne
Aviation Week’s defense team discusses how Europe’s defense partnerships are evolving.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
After decades of promise is hypersonic technology finally verging on operational capability? The U.S. Air Force thinks so, and is laying out high-speed requirements underpinned by a growing budget for sustained R&D.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
Joined at the hip for years, Lufthansa and Frankfurt Airport must now compromise as low-cost carriers make inroads into the airline’s biggest hub.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
A 20-year-old vision for improving taxiing efficiency may finally be coming to fruition, but in different form.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Japan’s first privately developed rocket has been scheduled for launch on July 29 by developer Interstellar Technologies (IST).
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NanoRacks LLC has demonstrated that spacesuit-garbed astronauts working outside the International Space Station can successfully maneuver around the external surfaces of what is to be the first commercially provided airlock.
Commercial Space

Interest is mounting in a potential new fleet of low-cost, light-attack aircraft the U.S. and international allies could use to fight terrorists in the Middle East.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is shelving plans for upcoming Dragon 2 crew and cargo retrorocket returns to Earth due to the difficulty of meeting certification requirements
Space

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris
Startup says enough data exist to set a sonic boom standard that would allow its 45-seat airliner to fly supersonic flight over land when it enters service in 2023.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
New Zealand’s Aviation Security Service plans to deploy a system that will improve the passenger screening process, as well as helping demonstrate the technology’s global potential.
Connected Aerospace

Gen. David Goldfein is leading the charge to create a joint, integrated network he believes will give the U.S. and its allies the edge in battle.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Airbus flies Sagitta; KARI lands tiltrotor; Cranfield leads digital aviation; TsAGI talks quiet supersonics; X-57 makes progress.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Calls are growing for powerplants to be developed specifically to meet the price and performance needs of lower-cost unmanned combat aircraft.
Defense