Aviation Week & Space Technology

After a challenging year for the U.S. Air Force’s new tanker, Boeing expects to begin fuel deliveries to fighters in August.

Systems for enhanced aircraft analytics should continue to come together in 2017, improving predictive maintenance capabilities for MRO providers.

From Chinese power projection to enduring border strife and ethnic conflicts, the world is heating up with tensions.

Test results mark an early step on the path to a new generation of highly efficient airliners designed to take advantage of boundary layer ingestion.

Readers share memories of John Glenn; NASA's Alan Stern's approach to managing large projects lauded; "tailsitting" VTOL aircraft concept is debated.

See the MRO industry’s initiatives, certifications, standards, products and services to make aircraft maintenance more eco-friendly and sustainable.

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The Pentagon budget may grow under Trump, but major defense acquisition programs could come in the form of infrastructure spending and fiscal stimulus.

Airliner backlogs are at unprecedented levels, and China has ordered almost as many aircraft as have Europe and North America combined.

Northeast Asia, and particularly China, could hold the key to future expansion.

Aerospace news highlights of 2016: aircraft rollouts, service entries, program developments; spacecraft launches, successes and setbacks.

NASA’s unique facility is the first designed to test high-power, flight-weight electric propulsion systems for future single-aisle airliners at full scale, on the ground, before moving to flight testing.

Aerospace & Defense 2017 is the latest version of our annual predictor of trends to watch across all the fields we cover. With that issue in the bag, we talk with our top editors about what to look for in 2017.

Pentagon faces decisions on critical and complex military space systems as the commercial satellite communications market continues to evolve.

Embraer wants to stimulate demand for aircraft by narrowing the gap between business aviation and commercial airlines.

Growing size and diversity of the commercial drone market begins to attract established unmanned-aircraft manufacturers, while military market grows ever more international.

In addition to the many first flights, deliveries and service entries that will occur in 2017, production increases and market questions loom.

In this week’s roundup: Italy receives Conformal Airborne Early Warning aircraft; Northrop adds refueling capability to E-2D Hawkeye; Antonov rolls out An-132 prototype and Bulgaria is in the market for secondhand fighters.

Digital imagery provides the model for a new approach to assembling complex aircraft structures from small and simple, mass-produced building blocks.

Carriers in South America’s biggest country look for ways to access fresh capital or consolidate to cope with ongoing economic crisis.

Private sector space initiatives are expected to continue and perhaps be bolstered under Trump administration.

Boeing touts $10 billion in cost avoidance by replacing the B-52’s TF33s with eight regional jet-class engines.

U.S. airlines' new services to Cuba still underutilized as tourism faces obstacles, but carriers remain confident about the future.

The industry must coordinate international and national rules for maintenance-technician schools and foreign repair station drug/alcohol testing among others in the new year.

The U.S. Air Force bought the legacy presidential aircraft from Boeing for just $249 million back in 1986 but expects to spend $3.2 billion on the new Air Force One.