Aviation Week & Space Technology

Business jet and general aviation pilots already enjoy the safety benefits of synthetic vision. Airline pilots are next in line.

Sierra Nevada is using its deep pockets to keep the Dream Chaser mini-space shuttle alive while it looks for paying customers.

Certainly there is a new space race underway, just as there was 50 years ago. This time the goal is profits—and the skilled workforces that can generate them—although national prestige remains important, too.

SpaceX is juggling a mix of commercial and government missions at a time when its cargo-resupply services are in growing demand.

Airlines are going back to school to build new training programs to demonstrate deep-stall and upset recoveries in the simulator.

Despite interruptions from winter storms, a sustained drop in jet fuel prices underpinned the rosiest first quarter for major U.S. airlines in years.

Slow throttle valve response is blamed for the failure of SpaceX’s latest attempt to recover and reuse the first stage of its Falcon 9v1.1 launch vehicle.

NASA, FAA and industry join to reduce burden of costly, time-consuming materials and structures testing that comes with using carbon fiber in aircraft.

Making a flying car a good aircraft is one challenge; making it good to drive is another.

Russia’s MS-21 gets active side-sticks; EcoDemo 757 tests active-flow-control tail; British air-breathing rocket engine passes AFRL exam; small UAS aims for 100-hr.-plus flight; Solar Impulse prepares for cross-Pacific flight.

​Brian Hunter has been named vice president-sales and marketing for Ametek Singapore. He was head of the Asia Pacific Comprehensive Accessory Repair and Exchange program of UTC Aerospace Systems. Steve Hasker has been appointed to the board of directors of Los Angeles-based Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. He is global president at Nielsen N.V. and was its president for global products.

Are some A&D companies becoming too good at business? Many are acting like well-oiled corporations, doing all the right things for their owners and executives—but maybe not for the nations they serve.

BAE may not be leading the pack of its TPC peers, but it is managing its business portfolio and it is a leading performer for the Pentagon.

Although Airbus cites a market for an upgraded A330, the manufacturer seems to be overly optimistic about its chances of success.

NASA is spending a little money to see if cargo carriers for the ISS can be “evolved” into crew habitats for deep-space exploration.

Ground testing has revealed a bug in the MRJ’s software, and some airframe changes are needed, too. Mitsubishi Aircraft plans to offset the delay by testing more aircraft in the sunny U.S.

Be sympathetic but realistic about A-10 retirement; Caution about cockpit access and terrorism; Mode of cleaning up anticipated smallsat space debris; Gentle gibe at slow-speed aircraft

Government mainstays United Launch Alliance and Aerojet Rocketdyne face uphill battle now that private investments have entered the competitive launch arena.

Wall Street can favor individual A&D companies or the sector as a whole, even as others lament mediocre program performance.

If not for a growing tailwind benefit of how Lockheed accounts for its pension liabilities, as well as its FX hedging and other asset-management accounting moves, its 2014 financial results and TPC scores would look worse.

Citing differences over policy regarding competition with Gulf carriers, Air Berlin follows IAG carriers British Airways and Iberia in leaving the AEA

Shareholders in aerospace and defense are reaping benefits more often associated with blue chip companies.

The transition from the current Airbus A330 to the A330neo was never going to be easy.

House to fund some Navy unfunded priorities, Virginia lawmaker keeps an eye on Uclass, more support for taking ATC out of FAA and aerospace companies collaborate with government space plans.

TPC rankings are the result of a composite scoring of four equally weighted performance categories that place significant emphasis on operating excellence.