Aviation Week & Space Technology

Astronauts are installing sensors that will watch how the pod responds to temperature, radiation and orbital debris.

Smith shepherded the rise of the U.S. commercial spaceflight industry, drafting licensing and safety regulations while providing freedom to innovate.

Textron Systems’ unmanned RQ-7B soars past its 1-millionth flight hour, with the vast majority of those spent shadowing insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from above.

Progress in reusable suborbital space flight hastens the day when researchers can study the transition zone from gravity to its absence.

The U.S. airline industry is well consolidated. But mergers of midsized carriers could establish a strong fifth force in the market.

Business aircraft operators have reason to be concerned that, thanks to ADS-B technology, their aircraft can be monitored by anyone with an appropriate receiver.

International route realignment has already led the airline to retire its fleet of Boeing 777-200ERs. Another major adjustment will occur in late 2017, when the airline begins taking delivery of Airbus A350s, which will eventually replace its A380 fleet.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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