Aviation Week & Space Technology

Germany could be the last partner-nation operator of the Tornado after 2025.

With coming end of economic sanctions against Iran, airframers expected more orders from country’s airlines. Many financial system issues slow the progress.

Technology news from ILA Berlin: Airbus advances hybrid helicopter; Bauhaus designs city-center STOL port; THOR, a 3-D-printed, Airbus rotating VTOL hybrid airship; Airbus wants your ideas.

Readers comment on inadequate crew training in responding to cockpit-related problems; call for formal recognition, training of UAS controller position.

At this year’s IATA annual general meeting in Dublin, the Middle East carriers once again dominated the news. While the CEOs of Delta and Emirates refused to engage in a public spat over open dkies, Qatar Airways was considerably less restrained. Aircraft tracking was also high on the agenda, but no consensus was reached on how to resolve the issue. Listen in as our editors discuss all this and the latest on Qatar Airways refusing its first A320neo.

Motor-glider experience prompts new developments in optionally piloted surveillance aircraft.

Despite potential limitations on exports, South Korea selects GE 414 engine for KF-X fighter.

An unusual paradox is playing out across the Western A&D sector: consolidation and new competition are increasing together.

Egypt’s handling of the MS804 investigation falls short of accepted international standards.

Aviation Week editors report from Europe and the U.S. on Airbus’s internal debate on raising production rates, the supplier challenges hindering the ramp-up, and the thinking behind Boeing’s stretched “737-10."

The unfolding revolution in the automotive industry is less about research than development—spotting and bringing together an array of externally sourced technologies.

Aerospace Calendar And Aviation Week Events (June 6, 2016)

Benefiting from lower fuel prices and mergers, the airline industry worldwide is in the best financial condition in a long time, IATA says.

Airbus firming up design of a refined, optimized son of X3 that could pave way for a compound helicopter product.

Accident investigators on June 1 said a French navy vessel had detected a signal assumed to be from one of the flight recorders on EgyptAir Flight 804 (MS804).

A fleet of aircraft and an air charter service are part of the Republican presidential candidates long—and very visible—association with aviation.

A spate of incidents of unsafe operation over the past two months has discouraged the CAAC from quickly ending its suspension.

The impetus for Boeing’s supposed 737 MAX stretch has grown since some long-standing customers started splitting purchases to include both MAXs and A321neos.

Despite flat-to-declining revenue in traditional telecom markets, satellite operators are digging into their pockets as they expand into aeronautical, maritime and consumer Internet connectivity.

Cubic Corp. has named U.S. Navy Vice Adm. (ret.) David Buss corporate senior vice president/president-Cubic Global Defense and Mike Twyman corporate senior vice president/president-Cubic Mission Solutions. Buss’s 36 years in Navy service included a stint as Commander, Naval Air Forces. Twyman held multiple leadership roles with Northrop Grumman.

An Airbus internal debate, between production and sales, is ongoing as to whether to increase A320-family output.

The HTT-40’s first flight | Support contract for aging Kuwaiti F/A-18s | Italian Reaper’s new RecceLite pod | Raytheon and UVision pursue U.S. Army contract

Sikorsky’s entry into DARPA’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.

A NASA paper looks ahead at in situ resource utilization on Mars, which will be necessary to sustain astronauts for any length of time.

As the U.K. gets ready to vote on its EU membership, the British aerospace industry is going through its own crisis of identity