Aviation Week & Space Technology

The European space launch company is eager to show it is still reliable despite facing a major roadblock (literally).

Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser uses guidance, navigation and control techniques first developed for astronaut flights in the 1960s.

Decisions made by airline bosses have put passengers and flight attendants in a pressure-cooker.

Thailand’s efforts to recertify its airlines raises the prospect of ICAO removing its safety red flag this year.

Lockheed Martin is not waiting for New Delhi; it is beginning preparations for new Fighting Falcon orders.

Lighting, seating and sensors are being used in new cabin technologies to increase passenger satisfaction.

Aurora flies eVTOL for Uber; Carter unveils SR/C air taxi; AirspaceX develops modular eVTOL; NASA X-57 takes shape.

Aviation Week editors weigh in on Emirates cutbacks and the Trump administration’s electronics ban.

Though at least 18 months late to market, Sandel Avionics’ new Avilon cockpit will still shake up the state of the art for guidance and navigation.

Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is on track to fly its full-scale electric VTOL demonstrator by year-end as airframe components arrive at A3.

The Army’s “No. 1 priority” for Future Vertical Lift is an armed scout platform, despite moving forward with a Black Hawk replacement.

Alitalia’s prolonged battle shows little progress in European airline consolidation.

Until now, the C919 has looked like it would be limited to CAAC certification. Now EASA has stepped in to help.

The alliance adds air policing missions to Bulgaria and Romania as need for reassurance grows.

Trump and NATO defense spending; investor calls on Musk to stop cooperating with the president; the F-35’s air show prospects; and goodbye to a government shutdown.

Demonstration flights and limited operational approvals are building experience and confidence in flying drones safely beyond visual line of sight of the operator.

Readers discuss tapping "black" world technology, challenge a commentary about electronics ban at airports, urge Army to use enhanced training systems for helo pilots and mull merits of diversity in aerospace.

Alitalia, Air Berlin cases show investor money alone won’t save airlines—viable strategies are needed.

Alessandro Profumo has been named by the Italian government to become chief executive of the Leonardo aerospace and defense group.

Upcoming aviation and aerospace industry events and Aviation Week Network events

Ride-hailing giant Uber held a summit on its Elevate concept for urban air mobility, drawing 500+ people, including manufacturers, regulators and investors.

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

Customers needed to counter the threat from small unmanned aircraft face a bewildering array of choices, but bands of capability are beginning to emerge as threats and countermeasures become more clearly understood.

Tianzhou is most like the Japanese HTV cargo craft used to supply the ISS. Tianzhous will burn up on reentry, unlike the similar-sized SpaceX Dragon.

Singapore upgrades Apache fleet, defense spending up worldwide, the latest U.S. ICBM test, and Indian Navy tests land-attack Brahmos