Aviation Week & Space Technology

By William Garvey
A one-time flying boat terminal at LaGuardia Airport will be the U.S. base for a new shared charter service between New York and London.
Business Aviation

By Kevin Michaels
With its new Global Services unit, Boeing aims to triple its aftermarket revenue to $50 billion within the next decade.
MRO

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is hearing that life-support technology remains a question mark in NASA’s exploration plans.
Space

By Adrian Schofield
Ambitious efforts to boost Tokyo airports’ capacity will be spur for long-term airline expansion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic has begun glide flights of the second—and significantly improved—SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle after completing a fourth and final captive carriage flight under the WhiteKnightTwo mothership.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Counter-rotating open-rotor interest falters as replacement aircraft for single-aisle aircraft has been postponed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Elaine Chao, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for Transportation secretary, is the ultimate Beltway veteran, but her positions on current aviation issues are largely a mystery.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
GE is also completing key endurance tests of lightweight, heat-resistant ceramic matrix composites that are pivotal to the GE9X meeting performance goals.
Air Transport

UTC Aerospace Systems is expanding its MS-177 "family" to include two hyperspectral configurations with embedded autonomy.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Mods to increase C-17 efficiency; German center funds "virtual aircraft" research; Deutsche Telekom enters drone defense; Gulfstream patents in supersonic work.
Aerospace

B​oeing has promoted Stanley A. Deal to president/CEO of Boeing Global Services, a new unit, from senior vice president-commercial aviation services.

Our editors and artists picked their favorite photos, including commercial jetliners, watery landings, combat aircraft maneuvering and space launches.

By Michael Bruno
The Western A&D sector would do well to take a closer look at Spirit AeroSystem’s relatively new CEO and president, Tom Gentile.
Air Transport

Readers weigh in on launch-vehicle reuse; climate-change skeptics; how President-elect Trump might impact A&D sector; breadth and depth of stealth coverage
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Vintage aircraft flying above the clouds, a record-setting skydiving jump and a historic space launch are among this year's Aviation Week Photo Contest winners.

By Jen DiMascio
With more outreach to commercial industry and international partners, the U.S. is expanding the ways it approaches defense.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Fiscal 2017 U.S. defense budget includes plans to replace Afghan fleet of Mi-17 helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett, Graham Warwick
The latest Chinese air-to-air missile is comparable with a long-range surface-to-air weapon in size and appearance, so its range is probably well over 200 km.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Tailsitting vertical takeoff/landing unmanned aircraft takes shape at Northrop Grumman under DARPA’s Tern warship-based medium-altitude, long-endurance program.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau
If the German legacy carrier’s pilots don’t compromise on wages or other issues, they may be putting the Lufthansa Group in danger.
Air Transport

You don't have to work in aerospace to be a winner of Aviation Week's Photo Contest, but it helps.
Photo Contest

Maintaining U.S. aeronautical leadership—and the high-wage jobs that come with it—will depend on investments made today by Congress and the Trump administration.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Our judges have strong backgrounds in photography, journalism and art and design. They bring an appreciation for aesthetics and love of aviation.
Photo Contest

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s Washington Outlook, outsourcing business seems suddenly unpopular, lawmakers ask for a flyoff between the F-35 and the A-10 and the head of Trump’s NASA transition team is named.
Defense