Aviation Week & Space Technology

Reaction Engines gets a boost from AFRL’s validation of its Sabre engine cycle concept.

The Pentagon’s new approach to ignite and capture innovation and technology may be both meaningful and meaningless.

The Pentagon may be looking toward Silicon Valley for cutting edge ideas, but it still needs the leadership and experience of its legacy primes, including in a new role guiding the new players.

Boeing and Saab are close to flying their new advanced trainer, but M-346 could be back in the race soon.

Global competition is forcing the U.S. and allies to pursue smaller, more powerful electromagnetic weaponry.

A sudden surge in demand for the combat jet has the French air force struggling to provide training and technical support to export customers while meeting overseas commitments

Despite the failure of two cargo supply missions within a year, commercial space companies are full-speed ahead with their next experiments and payloads

China’s economy may be slowing, but the country’s flood of new airlines is hardly abating.

Stratolauncher studies universal payload pod for world’s largest-wingspan aircraft.

Acceptance of Eurowings low-cost platform by union a big step forward in Lufthansa negotiations

Until now, Hainan Airlines and other HNA carriers have lacked a passenger airline at Shanghai with local privileges. When they convert Yangtze River Express, they will have one

Chinese regulators do an about-face on airline strategy; growth is now encouraged in light of straitened fiscal environment.

Rapidly growing Chinese tourism, despite slower economic growth, is driving the increase in international air traffic, especially to other Asian nations.

It’s been a busy week for unmanned-aircraft developments, including: naval debut for 3-D-printed UAV; Sony enters small-UAV services market; prescriptions arrive by UAV at free clinic; record claimed for swarming UAVs; unmanned wingman to the rescue; and the acoustic anti-drone sensor.

A 1932 paper by famed German aerodynamicist Ludwig Prandtl inspires NASA Armstrong work on a tailless flying-wing aircraft that could eventually fly on Mars

Running a fuel-cell power system on hydrogen stored in solid pellets breaks the barrier to electric-UAV endurance set by battery life.

SpaceX should focus on more than speed; DOD, the "big boss," should supply more than directives to bump up R&D; Read up on Virgin LauncherOne; several reactions to Sabre propulsion technology; Phantom Works' multi-disciplinary approach draw comments

Aviation Week editors discuss the latest in experimental aircraft

By choosing the Bell 412, license-built by FHI, Japan has gone for low cost and low risk. The main alternative was the advanced Airbus H160, which KHI could have helped build for global customers.

Lab tests show potential of power-beamed thruster to be more efficient than conventional chemical rocket, potentially enabling a fully reusable spaceplane launch vehicle.

Thailand’s airlines are bearing the brunt of their aviation authority’s failure to comply with ICAO standards.

Remerging from bankruptcy, LightSquared has its sights set on proving its hybrid terrestrial/satellite communications network can coexist with GPS, rekindling debate over harmful interference.

The annual air show in Wisconsin offers a glimpse of the future, honors the past and serves as a platform for the vibrant general aviation sector.

The nation’s manufacturers take on independent billionaires in Ex-Im fight; the Army’s internal war over Apaches; the cost of a heavy-lift launcher.

Reusability is the focus for SpaceX, ULA, Airbus and others to make space transport more affordable, but they all take different approaches to reach the same goal