Aviation Week & Space Technology

After a long hiatus from the market, supersonic airliners may be poised to make a big comeback, and Boom Technology is looking to be first in the market.

NASA evaluation highlights Elytron VTOL design challenges as the scaled UAV prepares for tests.

New deals are creating bigger combinations in the leasing world, which provides about half of the aircraft industry’s orders.

Norway’s 2017 budget blueprint includes plans for participating in the second and third years of the proposed joint buy.

Raytheon adds network protections to avionics for Bell Boeing’s V-22 under an existing $250 million sustainment contract.

Three months after becoming CEO of troubled Air-France-KLM, Jean-Marc Janaillac prepares to release the cornerstone of his strategy to turn the airline around.

NASA’s original 2015 goal of certifying commercial space vehicles to service the ISS has not been met but, despite setbacks, Boeing still hopes to make it happen by late 2018.

Boeing CH-47F Chinook production will dip to 40 aircraft per year as the company enters a Block II development program that doesn’t hit the production line until 2021.

Automated refueling could remove the need for a boom operator in the future.

The U.S. and 44 nations across the globe have signed on to a set of international standards for the export and use of armed UAVs.

Participating countries in the initial voluntary phase include 18 of the 20 states with the highest volume of international civil aviation activity, covering more than 86% of international passenger and cargo traffic.

HY4 flies on hydrogen fuel cell; fuel burn could be reduced faster; laminar-flow wings ready for Europe’s BLADE; flights probe Europe’s weather-forecasting failures.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Progress on Warsaw’s flagship defense programs for helicopters and missile defense is mired in red tape.

Readers comment on UAE's safety bureau's preliminary report of Emirates' Aug. 3 crash; X-plane players; UCAVs and AI development; Mars cooperation.

Ongoing problems of once-promising low-cost carrier Fastjet have much to do with the difficult operating environment for airlines in Africa.

N ASA has named Thomas Zurbuchen associate administrator-science. Zurbuchen—a former University of Michigan professor of space science and engineering—succeeds Geoffrey Yoder, who will retire.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, research funding for advanced helicopter engines; the SpaceX-ULA spat; managing risk at the border and the hunt for counter-UAV technology.

Shelley Lavender explains how Boeing continues to reinvent platforms by adding technology during sustainment and production.

Connectivity and a new service economy will make the flight deck of the future more like a smartphone. Systems from weather radar to the APU could benefit.

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Bell-Boeing moves to accelerate implementation of barrier-type filter to aid operations missions in wake of 2015 crash that killed two Marines.

How airframe and engine contractors are responding to the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift plans. Oh, and a bit about the F-35, too.

In this week’s roundup, U.S. Army upgrades Hellfires; Philippines receive Korean light attack aircraft; Romania accepts Portugese F-16s; managing space traffic.

In addition to NASA's hybrid-electric propulsion research for small aircraft, projects are underway in France, Russia and elsewhere in Europe.