Aviation Week & Space Technology

Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop and potentially others are gunning for the Air Force’s $7 billion J-Stars Recap program.

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

After growing Turkish Airlines, Temel Kotil plans to nurture Turkish Aerospace Industries to a new level.

Setbacks in China and Northeast Asia are unwinding some of the airline’s progress in 2011-15, when Beijing progressively allowed more of its citizens to visit Taiwan. Low-cost competition is proliferating in the Japanese and South Korean markets.

The aviation ecosystem as we know it is likely to change dramatically in the next few decades.

In this week’s roundup: India’s nuclear-capable Agni-V ICBM heads to user trials; Serbia modernizes its helicopter and fighter fleet; upgrading the KC-10 tanker and another order for Patriot air defense.

The market weakness of Emirates and other Middle Eastern airlines is causing trouble for Airbus’s A380 orderbook.

Bell’s V-280 and Sikorsky/Boeing’s SB-1 aim to change how the U.S. Army fights wars.

The deflected slipstream gets to VTOL by diverting the slipstream downward to create upward thrust for takeoff and a cushioned landing.

Low-cost competition for Taiwanese travelers is strong—Tigerair Taiwan counts more than 20 budget airlines from 10 countries serving the island.

What course will the new U.S. administraton take on airline mergers and aircraft sales to Iran?

Robotics and additive manufacturing are just two technological enablers of future aerospace manufacturing.

Dassault Systemes is working with Wichita State University to find the best ways to train and attract qualified personnel for future aerospace manufacturing.

The environment will remain tough for airlines in Europe, with significant challenges caused by Brexit, overcapacity and terrorism

Can aircraft co-owners co-exist for long? Partners in Aviation has a plan that could ensure a harmonious relationship.

Movement toward more frequent privatized human spaceflight is just one of the big achievements slated for 2017, whatever happens in the White House.

HyperMach Aerospace’s combined system is designed to generate sufficient power to propel the aircraft to the edges of hypersonic flight and suppress booms and drag with plasma.

Flirtey delivers convenience; Groen’s gyroplane drone; AquaMAV flies and dives; DHS selects drone startups; Leonardo’s Solo in Italian tests.

Whether the Trump election in the U.S. or the Brexit vote in the UK, 2016 delivered shocks to the global aerospace and defense industry that will reverberate through 2017.

Another high-tempo year beckons for engine makers as commercial production soars, new engines enter flight test and new military powerplants begin ground tests.

Manufacturers push to get developments on track and ready for market rebound.

The U.S. airline sector has pretty much totally rebounded from the slump of the early years of this century. All sectors seem to be on even keel or thriving.

In 2017, the rules for commercial UAS operators will likely become a great deal more liberal.

Aviation Week forecasts show which airframes and engines will be the focus for MROs in 2017.

General Aviation has entered the “danger zone,” signaling the potential for grounded aircraft when the FAA’s ADS-B January 2020 deadline comes due.