Aviation Week & Space Technology

In an interview with Aviation Week, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard expressed confidence that his government’s C Series investment would pan out for taxpayers.

While the environment is not quite recessionary, industry can expect a business slowdown this year.

FAA and industry are searching high and low for interventions and technologies to help keep recreational pilots and their passengers flying another day.

JAXA has achieved long-term success for its JEM space lab on the ISS by sticking to its original plan as much as possible, regardless of short-term priorities.

Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne project has kick-started the creation of new, vertically integrated, rocket development and manufacturing capabilities in California.

Suppliers increasingly distinguish themselves with investments in additive manufacturing.

F-35s take center stage at the Royal International Air Tattoo—two years later than planned—and seem to have bolstered the country’s mood about its defense outlook.

Extensive predevelopment, beginning in the early 1990s, must have helped shorten the Y-20 program.

Beijing, Moscow plan a joint company to develop their proposed airliner.

Airbus Helicopters has flight tested hybrid-electric propulsion but says batteries and motors must improve dramatically before it becomes practical and valuable to the customer.

Two new narrowbody competitors to Airbus and Boeing are at this year’s Farnborough Airshow. Bombardier has been showing off the C Series with media and VIP flights on the eve of the show, while Embraer’s E2 is making its international debut just six weeks after first flight.

An Aviation Week/Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey of airlines reveals how technologically challenging it would be for a manufacturer to launch a middle-market aircraft.

Rolls-Royce has a lot riding on key first flights of its XWB-87 engine on the A350-1000 and its Trent 1000 TEN on the 787.

GE and the U.S. Air Force are conducting advanced compressor and fan rig testing that could lead to a follow-on development and test regime of full three-stream, adaptive combat engines.

Design initiatives and lower manufacturing concepts devised for new space are being used for the latest mainstream space projects.

Airbus flies electric ECS; Safran’s high power-density diesel; can digital chemistry grow UAVs?; IAI’s Bigger Role in Clean Sky 2; ultracapacitor energy storage for cargo airship.

Aviation Week editors predict what we’ll see and hear at next week’s U.K. airshow, including the dreaded “B” word.

EcoDemonstrator plan builds on airframers' earlier cooperative agreement encompassing biofuel research initiative.

MedAire fields 7,000 inflight medical calls a month, and helps travelers steer clear of trouble worldwide.

Like many other developers of small satellites, NovaWurks is waiting for a piggyback launch. But the company benefits from a unique spacecraft design.

India’s Tejas light fighter is late, does not meet requirements, but it is affordable. Planned upgrades could make it a capable machine—given a few more years.

Proof-of-concept trials worldwide and technology developments should lead to wide-scale biometric identification verification for simplified travel beyond 2020.

ATC reform left for later; House bill aims to block sale of Boeing aircraft to Iran; lawmakers ask about sending U.S. satellites to orbit on Indian rockets.

Charter flights are one thing, but returning Eastern Air Lines to its former prominence will require scheduled service, and Cuba could be the start.

U.S. Air Force investigates UAV crashes; Jordan looking to offload its older F-16 fighters; South Korea, Chile interested in buying missiles through U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.