Aviation Week & Space Technology

Successor of the U-2 spy plane, the unmanned TR-X will eventually have a stealthy shape and skin, allowing it to penetrate deep into enemy territory.

As U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command toasts delivery of the first Ghostrider gunship equipped with a 105-mm cannon, it now hopes to ride the air branch’s “Highway to HEL” by funding a high-energy laser demonstration on an earlier-model AC-130W.

This week's Washington Outlook column discusses Raytheon as a big donor in the New Hampshire and Arizona Senate races, Shuster's tight race in Pennsylvania and SpaceX and Blue Origin’s Washington ties.

Our editors discuss what the industry can do to prevent bag-toting passengers from becoming a risk to themselves and those around them during an emergency evacuation.

U.S. aerospace and defense companies explicitly plan less around any individual political leader nowadays and more over macroeconomic and sector trends.

Lockheed may move F-16 production to India; Argentina’s new trainer; helicopter market downturn; Germany increases readiness of Tiger helos.

A North Korean ballistic missile shot will encourage moves in Tokyo to strengthen defenses with imported U.S. systems.

Program execution is re-emerging as a make-or-break factor for companies as the focus shifts from selling to delivering across A&D.

Dividing the industrial impact of a U.S. presidential election used to be easy. Not anymore; 2016 is raising questions and making for strange bedfellows.

Boeing 737 MAX cockpit displays bridge the gap between the “old” infrastructure of the venerable 737 flight deck and the 737NG flight environment.

The next possible addition to Seoul’s defense against North Korean ballistic missiles could involve equipping destroyers with Raytheon SM-3 interceptors.

When it comes to sustainability of air travel, the aviation community is lying to itself. There is an elephant in the room and nobody wants to see it.

Astronomers continue to expand our knowledge of the Solar System and beyond with ever-improving instruments. The Hubble Space Telescope continues a process Galileo started that will continue with the James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in 2018.

An advanced instrument in development for NASA’s planned 2020 rover, the ‘rock zapper’ will add range, color and sound.

Restrictive bilateral agreements are limiting Australian market growth for Qatar Airways, Hong Kong Airlines and AirAsia X.

Three-stream turbofans, inverted-velocity-profile nozzles, airframe shielding—NASA gets creative to ensure future supersonic transports will be no noisier than today’s subsonic airliners.

A long-awaited conclusion on the expansion of London’s primary gateway still hangs in the balance, delayed by indecisiveness and politicking.

Government-to-government deals, more rigorous setting of requirements and a renewed emphasis on indigenous production feature in Indonesia’s new defense acquisition policy.

Airlander airship ready to emerge; White House boosts delivery by drone; agencies commit to increase UAS use; Aurora expands optionally piloted Centaur OPA uses.

Winning the T-X trainer contract from the U.S. Air Force could lead to bigger prizes from internationals customers.

As China Eastern, China Southern and their SkyTeam partners move to Daxing, Air China will take over the vacated space at Capital.

As President Obama packs his bags at the White House after eight years in office, he leaves his successor with a trillion-dollar nuclear modernization portfolio.

Following the trajectory established when VAATE took over from IHPTET in 2005, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory unveils plans for a new national military-propulsion technology development program, ATTAM.

Malaysia’s first attempt at building an aerospace industry flopped. But using the skills and infrastructure from that enterprise, the government has since pushed toward aircraft components manufacturing.

Ten years after the formation of an FAA/industry alternative fuels initiative, significant technical progress has been made, but commercialization remains a challenge.