Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Kevin Michaels
Fantastic earnings, a large backlog, high entry barriers and fortuitous timing. What isn’t to like about this deal? I have several important concerns.
Air Transport

By Angus Batey
Hackers are earning top-dollar to find security gaps in computer systems, but companies are slow to patch them, and government protections are uneven.
Defense

Sustaining the ISS is an ongoing challenge that creates new problems and spurs creative solutions.
Space

VivaLatinamerica, with two regional carriers already launched, is aiming at Central America as its next Viva brand and looking forward to further expansion.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
The Malaysian carrier cuts orders as it struggles to prove the long-haul, low-cost model can be profitable.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo
People laughed when forecaster Adam Pilarski said that oil prices would collapse. Now he’s warning about an aircraft order bubble.
Air Transport

Kerry Reals
Airlines around the world are realizing they need to offer Internet access network-wide, not only on long-haul flights.
Air Transport

In this rapidly expanding information-technology-driven environment, the NTSB is adjusting its methods to take advantage of the details of incidents captured by the public on PDAs to enrich their investigations.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Portable laser downs UAV; tethered drones tested; Russia’s advanced concepts; photonic fuel gauging; Sony’s first unmanned aircraft; ScanEagle fights wildfires; Italy demos UAV ATC.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
The company behind the Meteor air-to-air missile’s throttleable ducted ram-rocket propulsion, Germany’s Bayern-Chemie, says a feasibility study shows the technology could power a Mach 5-plus lower-tier ballistic-missile interceptor.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
“Boom room” at Langley Research Center plays a key role in sustaining supersonic research while NASA pursues funds for a low-boom flight demonstrator.
Aerospace

By William Garvey
How a young flight instructor went from selling portable air traffic control receivers into Sporty’s Pilot Shop.
Business Aviation

By Guy Norris
Real-time display of shock wave location on the ground will help future commercial supersonic pilots minimize sonic boom impact.
Aerospace

Slowing the rapid rate of growth of the Commercial Crew program is not a “cut,” but President Obama’s low-ball budget requests for Orion and the Space Launch System are.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Budget experts begin to worry about a potential government shutdown; the FAA disputes method of finding control tower inefficiencies; and NASA tells lawmakers it is tough on Space X.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Commercial aviation is justifiably proud of its achievement in driving down fuel burn since the dawn of the jet age, but has it done all that it could?

By Guy Norris
Air-to-air photography and an image-processing technique that shows shock waves of a supersonic aircraft in flight will help validate design tools for low-boom demonstrator.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
After proving capabilities in Afghanistan, Europe looks to upgrade attack helicopters.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Country’s largest carrier rescues smaller competitor from financial troubles caused by overexpansion..
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Its next X-plane may still be on the drawing board, but NASA is already learning the challenges it will face building and testing the aircraft, which will demonstrate distributed electric propulsion.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Advances in Russian military technology on display at the Moscow Air Show, including jammers and missiles, illustrate how Russia has pursued an asymmetric response counter to U.S. advantages.
Defense

The U.S. and allies have counted on airborne early warning and ground surveillance radars as force-multipliers since the 1990s. That might not always work.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
Airlines have been given a deadline to meet minimum fleet size requirements as the transportation ministry enforces rules more strictly.
Air Transport

The U.S. Air Force’s covert bomber project is further along than officials have let on, with years worth of risk-reduction work already done.
Defense

The launch, managed by Proton commercial service provider ILS, is the Russian heavy-lifter’s first flight since a mishap last May resulted in the loss of a communications satellite.
Space