Aviation Week & Space Technology

New technologies for an advanced turboprop are under review by Turbomeca in readiness for start of the next Clean Sky demonstrator program.

The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft has its origins in tuna-spotting from boats. Now its designers return to the same unmet market with a different, more flexible design.

Questioning pace of innovation for commercial aersspace; suggesting how to meld a "Super Long-Range Bomber"; rethinking midair refueling for commercial transport; Streamline security check-in lines

Solar Impulse crosses the Pacific and suffers some damage; Airbus E-Fan crosses the Channel and takes some heat.

Remote control tower technology could one day replace some existing towers and appear in locations where air traffic or business interests warrant a tower, but the economics do not.

With a cross-channel flight under its belt, Airbus begins to tackle serializing electric light aircraft.

Think that range, payload and stealth will be the deciding factors in the Air Force’s bomber choice? Think again.

Perceived threat from Turkey keeps Greek defense spending high as country suffers.

Thomas Kuhn (see photo) has been appointed president and CEO of BizJet International Sales and Support, Tulsa, Oklahoma, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik. He succeeds Manfred Gaertner, who is leaving Lufthansa Technik at the end of July.

Consolidation opportunities could be drying up in Europe, although there is still some activity for those with the resources to pursue some small regional entities.

Hikari, a European-Japanese consortium, says hypersonic travel can be a reality, with stepwise work through all the development issues.

DEFENSE Japan’s Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft made its global debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, England. Afterward, the aircraft will deploy to Djibouti for testing in hot conditions. The U.K. is expected to reestablish a maritime patrol aircraft requirement later this year.

Turnaround times, environmental impact and passenger comfort are among the key issues facing hypersonic travel planners.

Data from Pluto flyby will keep coming in through 2016, but early results raise interesting new questions about the makeup of Pluto and Charon.

Aviation Week Events: Oct. 9—MRO IT Europe. Amsterdam. Nov. 3-5—MRO Asia. Singapore. Nov. 3-5—AerospaceDefenseChain. Scottsdale, Arizona. Jan. 21-22, 2016—MRO Latin America. Lima, Peru. Feb. 3-4, 2016—MRO Middle East. Dubai. March 3, 2016—Laureates. Washington. April 4-5, 2016—Brazing Symposium. Dallas, Texas. Aerospace Calendar:

Congress is moving to prolong dependence on Russia to launch astronauts, undercut commercial space and squeeze aeronautics research.

Days after the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, our editors discuss the mission’s surprises and discoveries. With the spacecraft sending back just 1% of data it is supposed to collect, scientists are already learning new insights about the dwarf planet, its moons and environs.

Boeing believes airplane manufacturing costs can be cut drastically—and it has a secret program aimed at proving it.

New Horizons spacecraft flies around Pluto and begins transmitting data that will provide new knowledge of the far reaches of the Solar System.

With the rapid growth of commercial aviation, the label “aerospace and defense” has become largely irrelevant, if not entirely misleading.

Is this the beginning of the end of the great A&D stock boom?

Despite Iran deal, the Middle East is a hotbed of weapons sales, FAA threatens to downgrade Thai aviation safety, cost of operating the ISS skyrockets and a politician’s home-state advantage.

As enthusiasm mounts for microgravity research in orbit, the end of the ISS service life looms.

USAF sent destruct signals for Falcon 9 a full 70 sec. after mishap.

The $170 million agreement financed the build and launch on PSLV of three remote-sensing satellites for Beijing-based 21AT.