Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

HeliOffshore focuses efforts on studies to improve resilience and reliability of helicopters to improve offshore safety.

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

Airlines stand to gain operational and schedule efficiency through a mix of computer-based and sensor-based vision once new products and rules become available.

Latest phase of Office of Naval Research autonomous resupply program tackles challenges of wire detection, terrain classification and GPS-denied navigation.

The commercial space launch company is a subcontractor on a classified contract to loft the NROL-76 mission.

It has taken Honda five years longer than planned to deliver on its surprising entry into the aviation market, but Aviation Week evaluation pilot Fred George says the HondaJet raises the bar for entry-level light jets.

HondaJet and HF120 engine lines begin to accelerate as HondaJet deliveries head from ramp-up.

Urgent need cited in Asia-Pacific for longer-range weapons.

Rolls-Royce’s Trent 7000 engine is designed to reduce specific fuel consumption by 10% compared to the Trent 700.

Top U.S. officials seek to balance the use of government-made spy satellites with new commercial developments in imagery and intelligence collection and analysis.

Big response to Airbus UAV challenge; Russian unveils quad tiltrotor UAV; Airbus refines high-speed helicopter; coating protects U.K. carrier decks; Rice deicer repels water; solar-powered Sun Flyer rolls out.

The third 787 converted for private haulage is simply the latest opulently outfitted Boeing Business Jet.

We are ready to commercialize low Earth orbit. NASA should help but focus long-term on getting humans to Mars.

In too much of a coincidence, Washington and Canberra both want Gulfstream G550s for hush-hush operations.