Aviation Week & Space Technology

British Airways and other legacy carriers are increasingly tapping the expertise of low-cost carrier executives to increase efficiency.

NASA is betting that the search for the signatures of life can be enhanced by the massive Space Launch System now being built.

Darpa program takes commercial tablets, digital communications and high-performance computing and enables air and ground forces to coordinate close air support using shared situational awareness.

Ten years in the making, Cobalt’s five-seat Co50 emerges first as an experimental aircraft with a plan for certification by 2017.

Insitu launches UAV from UAV; Airbus flies diesel helo; 3-D printing a fast-jet UAV; NASA explores Prandtl’s wing; XTI takes crowdfunding step.

If you believe LRS-B cost numbers or that Congress will buy 100 of them, you’re ignoring history.

Google X executive sets 2017 as the target date to begin commercial deliveries by unmanned aircraft, but will the technology and the airspace be ready by then?

With 9,900 aircraft forecast to retire in the next decade, nontraditional players are chasing the disassembly market.

The sight of the MRJ flying past Mount Fuji will gladden the many Japanese who have long been frustrated by the mismatch between the country’s advanced aerospace technology, notably in manufacturing, and its failure to make its own complete airliner since the 1970s.

Airbus makes clear at the Dubai Airshow that it plans to build the new A380 version and possibly a larger A350 variant.

Commercial space bill nears final passage; Middle East nations seek precision weapons; DHS pledges new security enhancements; and Ex-Im Bank reauthorization takes another step forward.

Although it will be years before Boeing officially commits to a new midsize airplane, clues about its potential design abound.

Bombardier says its Global 7000 will now enter service in 2018, but seems awfully quiet about the 8000’s schedule.

Boeing, Lockheed’s LRS-B protest could be aimed more at Congress than the GAO

Avic reveals details about China’s answer to the F-35; Boeing and Tata pursue ‘Make in India’ manufacturing center of excellence; Textron readies small precision weapons for purchase in 2016; Lebanon’s low-cost UAV.

U.S. industry, banking on worldwide sales, worries that the glacial government approval process could affect pending export deals.

After the failure of the E-10, Saab re-imagines the multi-sensor, single platform surveillance capability.

Works in the Atlantic Council’s War Stories From the Future depict “how emerging antagonists, disruptive technologies, and novel warfighting concepts may animate tomorrow’s conflicts.”

UAE invests in tiltrotor and sends new light attack helos to Yemen.

Delivering a staggering 1 terabits per second of throughput, ViaSat-3 will also comprise the first spacecraft in a three-satellite constellation designed to provide global broadband from geostationary orbit, feeding mobile demand from the U.S. government and commercial aeronautical markets.

NASA evaluators appear to have winnowed the field for future ISS cargo contractors to the commercial-cargo capsules already operated by CRS-1 contractors Orbital ATK and SpaceX and an unmanned cargo version of the Sierra Nevada Corp. Dream Chaser reusable lifting body.

Ideas abound as NASA takes a deeper look at how it will use the big new Saturn V-class Space Launch System in the 2020s and beyond.

Airbus gives Emirates some hope for the A380neo, while the airline considers ordering more A350s but keeps options open for the 787. Neither is acting quickly.

The last Dubai Airshow saw record-breaking orders for commercial airliners. Not so this year, but our onsite editors say that’s not necessarily something to worry about. They explain why in this report from the show.

Mathematically proving software that does only what it is supposed to provides a route to eliminating cybervulnerabilities in airborne systems, Darpa’s Hacms program demonstrates.