Aviation Week & Space Technology

President Obama shook up space policy when he took office, and President Trump may be about to do the same.

ESA is planning to outfit the 30-satellite constellation with the same atomic clocks, despite the issues.

First results seem promising from jointly conducted Boeing-Embraer EcoDemonstrator technology test effort using an E170 prototype.

Everyone seems to want to be in on the newly lucrative aircraft financing industry.

United President Scott Kirby is looking to fulfill the airline’s potential with some major organizational moves.

Boeing will soon test an air-launched version of the double-range “Harpoon-ER” anti-ship missile in anticipation of U.S. Navy requirements.

Lockheed Martin X-56A ready return to flight; Aurora LightningStrike vertical-horizontal transition tests; TsAGI ground-effect transport tested; BAE Systems lasers to create atmospheric lenses; U.S. Army tests Hoverbike for rapid resupply.

Stealth technology and counterstealth techniques are part of an age-old cat-and-mouse game between military adversaries. Our editors discuss the latest developments and what is coming soon.

American Airlines has promoted Hector Adler to senior vice president of product and service delivery, from vice president of flight service. Jill Surdek will succeed him as vice president of flight service. FlexSys Inc., a provider of wing-morphing technology, has hired David Hornick as president/chief operating officer. Hornick had been with Aurora Flight Sciences.

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Eyes may be on the T-X competition, but the international market remains ripe for training aircraft.

A lot in Washington is broken these days, but not everything needs to be fixed.

Rolls’s settlement emerges as fraud investigators begin to examine the aerospace industry as a whole.

A thumbnail outline of most nation’s plans to replace their trainer aircraft in light of many current trainers approaching retirement.

With its far-aim still set squarely on Mars, Elon Musk’s space company is happy for now to be resuming satellite launches and return landings.

Here are signposts to follow as the new administration’s choices on defense unfold.

Autonomous systems, terahertz communications, cognitive computing, digitized fabrication—these are the technologies identified as potentially disruptive for aerospace by a panel of experts at AIAA’s SciTech conference.

Readers weigh in on Factories of the Future article; debate the Persons of the Year selection; discuss Air Force One options and decry ultra-long-range aircraft.

In this week’s Washington Outlook: why industry experience in government helps the Pentagon get a better deal; McCain’s plans to spend big on the military; a burgeoning space rivalry; and the ongoing attempt to block the sale of aircraft to Iran Air.

Creation of the world’s third-largest Tier 1 aerospace supplier behind UTC and GE has both positive and negative effects for Boeing, Airbus and other aircraft manufacturers that do business with Safran and Zodiac.

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

Leonardo’s UK enterprise claims the second largest aerospace and defense company behind BAE Systems.

Replacement for Mangusta to use dynamics and avionics from AW149.

In this week’s roundup: U.S. Marines with F-35Bs arrive in Japan, Israeli air force receives Arrow-3 missile defense, Airbus delivers H225M Caracal helicopters to Thailand, British navy awards radar contract and CAE scores training services contracts

ATR is converting 1980s design drawings to more contemporary digital mockups.