Another attempt to combine high speed with hover agility produces a unique solution combining tandem tiling wings, hybrid turbine-electric power and distributed electric propulsion.
China to receive Sukhoi fighters; B-52s are on temporary duty in Europe; UAE requests defenses for its C-17s; Pakistan considers JF-17 engines from Russia; Boost to India’s defense budget.
NASA’s X-plane will create the shaped shockwave signature of a 100-120-seat supersonic airliner to enable community testing to determine the public acceptance of low-boom designs
Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno and aerospace analyst Kevin Michaels discuss how massive supplier tie-up would have been “a stick in the eye” to Airbus and Boeing.
The Orion crew capsule European Service Module is a rare example of the kind of international cooperation best exemplified by the International Space Station.
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.
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.
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.
