Aviation Week & Space Technology

Auditors can help ensure that qualified pilots are at the helm, but in some cases their assessments can be compromised by faulty information or background checks.

After Solar Impulse 2's 70-hr. solar-powered crossing of the Atlantic, we look at the flight itself and the wider significance of the Swiss group's attempt to fly around the world without using fuel. Talking are EIC Joe Anselmo, managing editor for technology Graham Warwick and our new French correspondent Thierry Dubois, who interviewed Si2's solo pilot Bertrand Piccard by satellite while he was over the Atlantic.

At the Pentagon and on Wall Street, they are beginning to consider the possible impacts from Trump vs. Clinton. On Capitol Hill, there is blow-back from Boeing’s Iran deal.

Tokyo would have to vastly increase its defense research and development budget to create an all-new fighter.

Boeing must overcome banking and political roadblocks to finalize the Iranian aircraft order.

With production of several large programs ramping up this year, the challenge for French aerospace companies will be to maintain quality and schedule.

Bombardier’s Alain Bellemare talks to Aviation Week about the progress made since he became CEO in February 2015.

Downstream of Germanwings, the FAA endorses the legacy approach to pilot mental health but looks to remove reporting barriers for its doctors.

Switzerland’s Solar Impulse 2 completes Atlantic crossing on solar power as round-the-world attempt enters final stages.

Splitting up is hard to do, but sometimes necessary. That is what Alcoa-turned-Arconic’s chief executive and chairman tells Aviation Week in a recent interview about his company’s future.

The benefit of automotive safety features to general aviation persuades the FAA to grant Terrafugia a waiver of weight and stall-speed limits.

Airlines are willing to offset their carbon emissions with a global system, but are governments also aligned?

As Europe gears up to develop a MALE UAS, Israeli and U.S. systems still dominate inventories.

Long in the making, the FAA’s final rule for commercial operation of small unmanned aircraft, or drones, gets the thumbs up, but industry is already impatient for the next set of capabilities.

India relaxes rules on foreign defense investment; first temporary EA-18G detachment deploys for training; Norway, Poland test naval strike missile; more North Korean missile tests.

With almost 200 F-35s set to call the U.K. home in the coming years, the U.S. and U.K. are talking up training and logistics.

Reluctance by lawmakers to embrace the value of X-planes to U.S. industry has NASA coming up with creative approaches

A coronal mass ejection could be particularly devastating in today’s globally wired world. Scientists advocate research into solar storms with smallsats at the forefront.

The Air Dominance Adaptive Propulsion Technology program builds on almost a decade of research, beginning with the Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology program.

There is concern among Tier 1 leader that the air transport segment is becoming structurally unattractive and less worthy of investment than its alternatives.

A proposed upgrade stemming from Pratt’s system development and demonstration program for the F-35 engine has the potential to cut fuel burn by as much as 7% on aircraft entering service by the early 2020s, the company says.

Two small features on Mars’s Mount Sharp are targets for observation with Curiosity’s MastCam camera as part of the quest to determine whether there is life on the planet.

The technology is considered vital to achieving the high-speed, long-endurance performance requirements of the F/A-XX and F-X sixth-generation fighters.

Virgin Australia is attracting significant interest from China, with the HNA Group and Nanshan Group poised to become its latest stakeholders.

From the nuclear triad to the arsenal aircraft to Donald Trump as commander in chief, Gen. Mark Welsh discusses issues confronting the U.S. Air Force.