Aviation Week & Space Technology

In negotiations, U.S. pilots have leverage. But union leaders are still nervous, given concerns about foreign competition and reversing givebacks made in the past.

Allegiant increases advertising, invests in customer service in new markets. The carrier also plans to replace its MD-80s by 2020 with A319s and A320s.

Whether you buy a UAS from Lockheed Martin or Amazon, the essential components of the system are the same.

Drones, UAS or RPAs—what’s the good word?

The airline industry needs new ideas about running a long-haul carrier efficiently, and incumbents’attempts to block such new models is short-sighted.

Boeing plans to keep production costs viable by closely integrating the 747 and 767 programs as orders for the larger aircraft slow.

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.

Software design highlights the tension in the mammoth multinational F-35 program—how to achieve independence without disrupting interoperability.

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, a pilot rated in multiple aircraft, was impressed by how quickly a variety of companies worked to get his band’s tour plane back in action after an ground-handling accident.

Chairman hopes his idea will speed defense bill passage | Will F-22s resume production? | Key NASA programs in line for more money | Flying without registration

Real-time telemetry was gathered from 22 UAS flying simultaneously at six sites nationwide.

Czech manufacturer Evektor flies first production-conforming EV-55 Outback |

Russia bolsters training aircraft fleet | Air Force tests efficiency benefits of winglets | Raytheon wins Next-Gen Jammer contract | Boeing to upgrade Apache helicopters |

Small and midsize enterprises, with revenue measured in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, are expected to dominate the M&A and deal-making circuit this year.

Paris and Cairo recently finalized new defense cooperation accords, including a deal for development and construction of a military communications satellite.

How the U.S. Army contends with threats from ballistic missiles to homemade rockets and everything in between.

Cash-strapped South and Central American nations gain valuable insight into establishing space opportunities on their home turf.

NASA is encouraging commercial ventures to take control of low Earth orbit research and even profitmaking, sparking a space commercialization boomlet.

The seven-year mission to asteroid Bennu promises to deliver the first pristine samples from the formation of the Solar System’s inner planets.

Russia’s Europeanized Soyuz will lift a bevy of low-orbiting satellites on its first launch of 2016 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

European-based turboprop maker ATR predicts there will be demand for about 100 turboprops in Japan through 2025, and the manufacturer aims to win 70% of these sales opportunities.

The aircraft maker has learned from past production issues and is applying those lessons to pick up the pace of its 737-8 certification testing.