Aviation Week & Space Technology

Virgin Atlantic is using proceeds from collateralizing Heathrow slots for the purchase of new aircraft, including Boeing 787s.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
The EC should focus on defending consumer interests rather than protecting Air France-KLM and Lufthansa Group from competition.
Air Transport

“So we are finally—after years of destroying capital—delivering the minimum level of profitability that an investor would expect,” says IATA CEO Tony Tyler.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
UP Aerospace takes its experience building and operating low-cost suborbital sounding rockets and applies it to a dedicated launch vehicle for tiny cubesats.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Jails fear UAV smuggling; France leads UAV smallsat launcher; Darpa aims for ubiquitous lidar; Roke takes cellular to high altitude; Airbus Perlan glider moves to new test phase.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Maturing hybrid laminar flow control, active flow control, noise reduction and vibration prediction and mitigation technologies are the focuses of Europe’s AFloNext research program.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Qatar Airways says it will not take A320neos with PW1100G operational restrictions; Airbus negotiates with Lufthansa to take delivery of first A320neo.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Even with almost 3,000 orders in the bag before first flight, the Boeing 737 MAX is in catch-up mode with the A320neo, which was launched more than a year ahead of it.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Which comes first, small satellites or small launch vehicles? With the growth in plans for cubesat constellations, small booster development is moving into high gear.
Space

By Guy Norris
Analyses of data culled from five-year fatigue testing on the 787—the first ever on a primarily composite airliner—is underway at Boeing.
Air Transport

The U.S. export credit agency is back but needs a board of directors. Meanwhile, the fight continues over Russian RD-180 rocket engines.
Defense

The trick to making international collaboration work applies for 21st-century human space exploration just as it did for railroads in the 19th—standard interfaces.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Gallium nitride semiconductors are upgrading electronic warfare, easing communications and improving radar.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Gallium nitride and ceramic composites have their mettle tested in the name of missile research.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Saab says it began testing a gallium-nitride fighter radar more than a year ago and has verified that the sensor is ready for production, although the complete system has not flown.
Defense

By Antoine Gelain
A customer-supplier model based on mutual trust and long-term commitment is the key.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Antonov diplomatically refers to the situation with Russia as an “interruption of cooperation with the northern neighbor."
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
U.S.-European wargames in Virginia; Germany receives Airbus helos for special forces; Northrop tests counter-UAV system with U.S. Army; Ilyushin delivers heavy-lift transporter to Russian air force.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The first complete 777X propulsion system tests are paving the way for 2016 full-scale, full engine tests.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris
As Boeing rolls out the first 737 MAX, our editors discuss what the re-engined airliner means to Boeing, and whether Airbus can hold on to the neo’s 60/40 advantage in orders.
Aerospace

Pentagon thinkers consider a life beyond Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) and Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) systems as reliance on and vulnerability to satcom systems grows.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The fix by the French space agency will keep NASA’s 2016 mission on schedule.
Space

With its Cygnus large cargo carriers, Orbital has an eye toward the post-ISS world, when NASA expects to be operating in cislunar space while private companies try to make a profit in orbit much closer to Earth.
Space

By William Garvey
In less than two years, Innova went from nonexistence to a multifaceted aerospace conglomerate whose services range from pumping fuel and providing jet charters, to reengining, certifying and manufacturing aircraft and parts.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Netherlands air force is planning a “fast and furious” transition to the F-35.
Defense