Aviation Week & Space Technology

In an Aviation Week interview, Avio Aero CEO Riccardo Procacci talks about future engine development technologies.

European carriers reel from drop in traffic in light of terrorist attacks and other factors that hurt what was projected to be a fairly decent financial year.

Facebook’s full-size UAV flies; Airbus debut’s hybrid E-Fan; Flirtey UAV delivers for 7-Eleven; Airbus Perlan glider heads to Argentina; Leonardo to fly active rotor.

In light of mixed results, including disappointing sales of its Rafale fighter and a softening of the business aircraft market, Dassault is consolidating its workforce.

Modern anti-aircraft weapons being developed and fielded by U.S. foes will increasingly push the B-2 farther away from sensitive military targets.

Etihad Airways and Lufthansa have held preliminary discussions over transfer of Air Berlin’s nonhub routes to its larger rival, industry sources say.

NASA and other governments may have an end date for the International Space Station, but private companies are creating their own for commercial purposes.

Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden argues that airlines have learned how to manage the economic ups and downs for the benefit of customers, employees and investors.

The July 15 coup revealed divisions and vulnerabilities in the Turkish state and its relationship with the armed forces.

Congress has allocated to the FAA more time and money to carve out specific regulations for unmanned air system operations.

Harking back to the U.S. Navy scout-carrying airships of the 1930s, SAIC and ArcZeon propose an airship carrier concept to extend the reach of small- and medium-size unmanned aircraft.

The use of narrowbody aircraft for long-haul routes has the potential to undermine legacy carriers’ feeder traffic.

GOP candidate’s comments about NATO draw bipartisan rebukes | New window for reopening Ex-Im for business | Astronaut sidesteps Trump.

Additive Manufacturing specialist EOS recently opened a facility near Austin, Texas, to serve North American customers with an innovations laboratory, a showroom of AM systems and to help bring new ideas to market.

NASA and other governments may have an end date for the International Space Station, but private companies are creating their own for commercial purposes.

With its latest short-term extension of FAA reauthorization, lawmakers on Capitol Hill gave themselves more time to mull major changes to U.S. aviation policy, such as whether to outsource air traffic management. But too much time also could make things harder.

Although Lockheed Martin remains committed to selling 100 fighters to Turkey, analysts warn that turmoil in the Turkish military may limit Ankara's ability to buy defense equipment.

Boeing’s second AF1 contract; Thailand’s new VIP transport aircraft; F-35Bs participate in war games; Orbital to make more missile defense targets.

Concepts for the post-ISS era begin to emerge, including commercial space factories spun off the existing station, and test hardware set for launch in 2017 to manufacture potentially valuable optical fiber that can only be made in space.

Facing an F-16 production gap next year but anticipating new international orders, company officials decide not to shut down the F-16 line in Fort Worth.

Real-time analysis of human genetic response to the space environment may be coming, with enormous—and perhaps scary—implications.

Optical comms development for DARPA can boost commercial crosslinks as well.

The U.S. is trying to keep smallsat, cubesat and nanosat operators viable as they wait for domestic launch-service providers to field dedicated rides to space.

Some “fractional” jet ownership enterprises soared briefly before contracting, crashing or quietly folding, but two entities have beaten the odds.

Nuclear weapon watchers agree that the U.S. and NATO must review their forward deployment of B61 nuclear weapons to Turkey in the wake of a failed military coup.