Aviation Week & Space Technology

The new shape of the Air Force’s bomber fleet relies on the outcome of a secretive project to lay the foundation for a new generation of U.S. stealth aircraft.

What is a company to do if it can’t get rights to a competitor’s coveted product? If you are Aerojet, just offer to buy that competitor.

An international fleet of spacecraft is providing scientists and weather forecasters with new insight into precipitation, its effects, and its causes.

The new rocket, based largely on an upgrade of the Falcon 9 v1.1, will launch four missions next year, including two for commercial customers.

Science experiments may help extend the life of satellites, evaluate environmental damage and monitor fallout from nuclear disasters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

After proving capabilities in Afghanistan, Europe looks to upgrade attack helicopters.

Country’s largest carrier rescues smaller competitor from financial troubles caused by overexpansion..