Aviation Week & Space Technology

New technique for producing printed circuit boards may help overcome the physical limitations that conventional manufacturing is running into as more components are crammed onto a small space.

Aviation Week editors discuss why Delta’s order of 125 Bombardier CSeries jets means so much and what it could mean for Airbus and Boeing

By clinging to a Cold War strategy and force structures, we are mismatched for the actual threats we face today.

Despite celebrating delivery of its first U.S.-built aircraft, Airbus is hitting bumps in the road to an increased global reach.

The Delta order for up to 125 Bombardier C Series has the potential to change the narrowbody aircraft market.

Bill sets up showdown with the Senate; hope for change; a wartime wish list

How today’s UAS leaders got where they did, and what that means for the future.

The X-2 is intended to demonstrate such technologies as stealth shaping, skin sensors. fly-by-light controls and thrust vectoring.

On May 2, engineers will begin occupying the Boeing’s enormous new 777X composite wing center, marking a key milestone toward the start of assembly of the company’s new flagship large twinjet.

While traditional foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia conceivably could decline under the inward push, all is not necessarily lost.

First lift for cargo-carrying Stallion | U.S. to sell hundreds of missiles to Australia | India and France still grappling over fighter contract | North Korea continues missile tests | Raytheon to operate drug-tracking radar

There’s a renaissance in spaceflight innovation, but a leap is needed for it to reach the financial tipping point and close the business case for the off-planet economy.

To get to Mars, astronauts will need tasty nutritious food that can withstand the demands of space travel.

Reasons for the decline in pilot numbers include retirement age and dismally low salaries, but organizations such as AOPA and GAMA are offering some solutions to help boost private pilot numbers.

Thales Alenia Space is leading development of Stratobus, a high-altitude platform that could perform many of the same functions of telecommunications and remote-sensing satellites, but closer to Earth.

As Chinese local airlines proliferate, they are increasingly adopting the budget model.

Boeing 727-200 finds a new role as aerial spray aircraft to combat oil spills at sea.

Brussels Airlines CEO Bernard Gustin: “We are more than ever assuming the role of Belgium’s national carrier, but we’re not government owned and we are not a legacy, old-style airline. We’re a successful hybrid.”

California Polytechnic—and a Florida high school—are working together to test a cubesat specifically designed as part of an experiment to wirelessly transmit payload data from launch to deployment.

NASA is beginning UAS testing that deliberately plans close encounters with “intruder” aircraft.

Open rotor on supercomputer; Vanilla’s 100-hr. UAS; AusPost delivers by drone; Improving composites manufacturing; Reinventing design tools.

Manning remotely piloted aircraft | U.S. space program: Conflicting goals? | Assessing age of military aircraft.

Pratt says delivery of new production standard PW1100G engine for A320neo and the opening of extra production space will mark a turning point for GTF program.

Commercial tiltrotor could shrink fleets, reduce the need for outlying bases and lower costs for oil and gas operations.

Bell’s 280-kt. V-280 Valor tiltrotor is in final assembly, and parts manufacture is in full swing for Sikorsky/Boeing’s 250-kt SB-1 coaxial rigid-rotor compound helicopter. Teams are making progress toward the Army’s Joint Multi Role flight demo in 2017.