Aviation Week & Space Technology

Brad Tilden
Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden argues that airlines have learned how to manage the economic ups and downs for the benefit of customers, employees and investors.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Harking back to the U.S. Navy scout-carrying airships of the 1930s, SAIC and ArcZeon propose an airship carrier concept to extend the reach of small- and medium-size unmanned aircraft.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Congress has allocated to the FAA more time and money to carve out specific regulations for unmanned air system operations.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
The July 15 coup revealed divisions and vulnerabilities in the Turkish state and its relationship with the armed forces.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
GOP candidate’s comments about NATO draw bipartisan rebukes | New window for reopening Ex-Im for business | Astronaut sidesteps Trump.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
The use of narrowbody aircraft for long-haul routes has the potential to undermine legacy carriers’ feeder traffic.
Air Transport

By Henry Canaday
Additive Manufacturing specialist EOS recently opened a facility near Austin, Texas, to serve North American customers with an innovations laboratory, a showroom of AM systems and to help bring new ideas to market.

By Jen DiMascio
NASA and other governments may have an end date for the International Space Station, but private companies are creating their own for commercial purposes.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Boeing’s second AF1 contract; Thailand’s new VIP transport aircraft; F-35Bs participate in war games; Orbital to make more missile defense targets.
Defense

Although Lockheed Martin remains committed to selling 100 fighters to Turkey, analysts warn that turmoil in the Turkish military may limit Ankara's ability to buy defense equipment.
Defense

Concepts for the post-ISS era begin to emerge, including commercial space factories spun off the existing station, and test hardware set for launch in 2017 to manufacture potentially valuable optical fiber that can only be made in space.
Space

By Michael Bruno, Molly McMillin
With its latest short-term extension of FAA reauthorization, lawmakers on Capitol Hill gave themselves more time to mull major changes to U.S. aviation policy, such as whether to outsource air traffic management. But too much time also could make things harder.
Air Transport

Facing an F-16 production gap next year but anticipating new international orders, company officials decide not to shut down the F-16 line in Fort Worth.
Defense

The U.S. is trying to keep smallsat, cubesat and nanosat operators viable as they wait for domestic launch-service providers to field dedicated rides to space.
Space

Optical comms development for DARPA can boost commercial crosslinks as well.
Space

By William Garvey
Some “fractional” jet ownership enterprises soared briefly before contracting, crashing or quietly folding, but two entities have beaten the odds.
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
With shareholders disagreeing over the future of ATR, management opts for incremental aircraft improvements.
Air Transport

Real-time analysis of human genetic response to the space environment may be coming, with enormous—and perhaps scary—implications.
Space

Nuclear weapon watchers agree that the U.S. and NATO must review their forward deployment of B61 nuclear weapons to Turkey in the wake of a failed military coup.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Support from the French government and China’s Avic is reinforcing Flying Whales’ confidence that its project will not be another failure in the airship segment.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Airbus A380 doors, cargo airships, communications satellites­ –all are early applications of ultracapacitor energy storage. Next step, more-electric aircraft and directed-energy weapons?
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo
Lockheed Martin head Marillyn Hewson talks one-on-one about the company’s plans for the future, notably with sixth-gen fighters, hypersonics and the SR-72.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Flying-wing rover for Titan; Airbus inspects by drone; tethered drones get bigger; Thales unveils Fulmar X; small helos to deliver packages?
Aerospace

By Adrian Schofield, Thierry Dubois
Adding larger Airbus A321neos represents a slight shift for AirAsia, but underlines confidence in its business model.
Air Transport

By Angus Batey
The U.K. has proposed cutting one of the air force's five intelligence, surveillance target acquisition and reconnaissance aircraft. But a senior office says all of them are in demand.
Defense