Aviation Week & Space Technology

The Orion crew capsule European Service Module is a rare example of the kind of international cooperation best exemplified by the International Space Station.

Budget uncertainties—driven by political uncertainties—are affecting NASA’s decision on whether to add a small habitat to a cislunar mission.

Pilot clubs cater to a broad spectrum—priests, lawyers, blacks, gays, blimp builders, the deaf and many others.

The E190-E2 is expected to begin the flight test and certification campaign midyear and will enter service in 2018, with hopes of gaining a bigger slice of the 70-130-seat passenger market.

Hackathons, cyberchiefs, attack surfaces and fuzzing are now part of the avionics engineer’s lexicon.

The EU Court of Justice ruling on flight delays is blurring the concept of contract of carriage, which is normally only between a carrier and a passenger.

To thrive in high-wage Australia, Boeing’s Melbourne plant must fabricate using advanced processes, such as the resin-infusion, oven-curing technology it applies to 787 work.

The 2016 20 outstanding university students exhibit many of the same characteristics of those who launched the aerospace and defense industry a century ago: fearless enthusiasm, curiosity, engineering capability and concern about the world beyond themselves.

Forget your slow-moving DJI Phantom and check out the 80-mph-plus racing drones—they could be a harbinger of a faster unmanned future.

Able to fit on a fingertip, a microchip developed by Singapore’s NTU could revolutionize all-weather radar imaging for small unmanned aircraft and satellites.

Elbit Skylens for tight spaces; Snecma CROR for Europe’s Clean Sky; 3-D UAS Prints On-Demand

The U.S. Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) has a designation: the B-21.

As Air Canada provides a boost with C Series orders, editors discuss the merits of a proposed investment by the Canadian government.

Positing that science & technology enables strategy; lamenting and debating fate of JSF; questioning Navy's "new" approach to surface warfare.

Aircelle has named Philippe Couteaux (see photo) vice president-strategy/customer support and services, overseeing nacelle system development and production. Rubin Siddique (see photo) has been appointed CEO of Lufthansa Technical Training. He succeeds Andreas Kaden, who is retiring.

Canada’s backing of Bombardier shows governments are willing to do what it takes in the aerospace arena to keep home-grown champions in the game.

Several new helicopter models will enter an increasingly crowded market during 2016.

Upgrade programs feel the impact as demand for oil and gas helicopters falls away.

Bell’s 525 Relentless is second-to-none for safety and mission optimization, but will the market respond with firm orders?

March 5-12—IEEE Aerospace Conference. Yellowstone Conference Center. Big Sky, Montana. See aeroconf.org March 7—Global Aerospace Summit 2016. Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center. Abu Dhabi. See aia-aerospace.org/news/global_aerospace_summit_2016/

New rules will in theory make passenger flights safer—assuming battery makers and shippers follow the rules.

The first of Embraer’s new generation “E2” series of airliners, the E190-E2, was unveiled on Feb. 25 at the company’s facility in Brazil.

Australia is acting like a country increasingly worried about its security but willing to pay to do something about it—including drawing even closer to its ally the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region.

Airlines warn a British exit from the EU could hit travelers in their wallets.

Lawmakers draw battle lines on defense budget; FAA creates rulemaking committee for micro UAVs; Foreign Military Sales process remains slow; Culberson makes another attempt to allow the NASA administrator to serve 10 years.