Aviation Week & Space Technology

Market forces point to the A380's demise, sooner rather than later, although Airbus executives say they remain optimistic production will ramp up eventually.

As the global F-35 enterprise transitions from concept to reality, leaders must tackle new logistics and policy challenges.

U.K. releases more government and industry money for commercial aerospace R&D projects. The post-Brexit future is unclear for EU-funded efforts.

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter finally made its Farnborough Airshow debut this week, impressing visitors to the trade show with its hovering capabilities.

Watch highlights from the 2016 Farnborough Airshow air display where Boeing's 737 MAX and Lockheed Martin's F-35 made their airshow debuts.

Pros, cons and misunderstanding of multilateration (MLAT) coverage; subsidy debate reemerges with advent of new single-aisle competitors; CG in Raptor aircraft; F-35 skeptics and defenders

​In 1916, Bill Boeing declared “we could build a better airplane” then went on to found The Boeing Company. Marcel Bloch (later Dassault) built his first propeller, symbolizing his entry into aerospace and forming what would become a French industry giant. In the same year, the ‘grandfather’ of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine was first published. One hundred years later, all three companies are here at the Farnborough Airshow, celebrating their milestones and looking to the future.

Airbus announces winners of the cargo-drone crowdsourcing design challenge run with Local Motors, calling the quality of entries “enormous and astounding” and the cocreation process “a breath of fresh air.”

At AirVenture 2008, electrics were all the rage. Eight years and numerous prototypes later, very few have made it to production and delivery, but at least three European manufacturers—Pipistrel, Airbus and Siemens—are working hard toward that goal.

Currently, the FAA must clear large blocks of airspace around launch and recovery sites.

Boeing’s KC-46 fix; Pentagon seeks industry’s help for satcom; gathering data on pilot air quality; North Korean missile launch follows THAAD deal.

Air Force Reserve gains B-1 and B-52 experience as it looks for a place within the future B-21 bomber enterprise.

The big battle at this year’s Farnborough Airshow is not aircraft sales, but engine competition.

Boeing’s 737-8 MAX is making its Airshow debut at Farnborough this week. The re-engined airframe, with CFM Leap 1B engines, has undergone 800 hours in its flight-test program and Boeing expects to deliver the first airplane in the first half of 2017.

FAA and industry are searching high and low for interventions and technologies to help keep recreational pilots and their passengers flying another day.

NASA looks for flexibility in its uses for solar-electric propulsion, in part to avoid political pitfalls.

JAXA has achieved long-term success for its JEM space lab on the ISS by sticking to its original plan as much as possible, regardless of short-term priorities.

While the environment is not quite recessionary, industry can expect a business slowdown this year.

In an interview with Aviation Week, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard expressed confidence that his government’s C Series investment would pan out for taxpayers.

Airbus Helicopters has flight tested hybrid-electric propulsion but says batteries and motors must improve dramatically before it becomes practical and valuable to the customer.

Suppliers increasingly distinguish themselves with investments in additive manufacturing.

Extensive predevelopment, beginning in the early 1990s, must have helped shorten the Y-20 program.

Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne project has kick-started the creation of new, vertically integrated, rocket development and manufacturing capabilities in California.

Beijing, Moscow plan a joint company to develop their proposed airliner.

F-35s take center stage at the Royal International Air Tattoo—two years later than planned—and seem to have bolstered the country’s mood about its defense outlook.