Aviation Week & Space Technology

The world of air transport has experienced two major disputes that have led to fierce discussions bordering on open hostility, serious threats and tensions that have not been easy to overcome. First the European Commission (EC) tried to impose its view of how aviation should tackle the increase of CO 2 emissions on the rest of the industry and was stopped only at the last minute when it became clear a trade war would be unavoidable. Then European and U.S. airlines launched a massive anti-Gulf carrier campaign.

Malaysia will probably order fighters in 2016-20 to replace a MiG-29 fleet that is already declining. The timing may be too late for the Super Hornet.

How well the Clean Sky 2 research program balances near- and long-term technologies could prove crucial to Europe’s civil-aircraft industry

Whether the U.S. Navy keeps to the new schedule and cost estimates for the CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier may come down to just how well a set of redesigned fasteners for the ship's Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) survives a new round of extremely important tests.

CEO Mauro Moretti is grappling with the Italian group’s debt in a bid to restore Finmeccanica to profitability by the end of this decade.

USAF leaders have launched their so-called Bending the Cost Curve program aimed at driving drive down the cost of weapons and other systems.

Suggestions for enhancing USAF stealth capability; questioning the divide between defense and commercial sectors; lauding an Aviation Week Laureate winner; noting a history of pilot retention woes

Investigators of downed Germanwings find that the first officer “deliberately crashed” the Airbus A320 into the side of a mountain; debates about psychological oversight of pilots and cockpit access are already beginning.

Germanwings crash could spur a revival of technology solutions to scuttle deliberate pilot, passenger actions to down an aircraft.

The airlines back the idea of privatizing the FAA’s ATC roles; NASA picks its asteroid direction; McCain sets defense priorities; and Chuck Norris defends the A-10.

​ DEFENSE Korea Aerospace Industries has selected Airbus Helicopters’ H155 as the basis for the Light Civil Helicopter (LCH) to enter service in 2020 and derivative Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) to become operational with the South Korean army in 2022. The army needs at least 200 LAHs.

As bypass ratios increase and engine cores get smaller, Pratt & Whitney comes up with a unique solution to the challenges of small scales inside future turbofans.

The seventh and final year of NASA’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation project is on target for a grand finale: the goal of simultaneous cuts in drag, weight, fuel burn, noise and emissions seems eminently doable moving forward.

John Harrison has been appointed general counsel for the Airbus Group. He has been group general counsel of Technip in Paris and succeeds Peter M. Kleinschmidt, who will remain senior legal adviser to the CEO and the group general counsel. Pierre de Bausset has been named president of Airbus Group India, succeeding Yves Guillaume, who will remain until the end of 2015. De Bausset has been the group’s corporate secretary

The U.S. likes to talk about international defense partnerships, but the reality is that the home industry’s interests always come first.

Further cuts to Britain’s defense spending next year could mean the U.K. falls below NATO’s requirement of 2% of GDP, prompting concerns about the country’s defense aspirations.

What could spur Alcoa to pony up maybe $5 billion in less than a year? Aerospace and defense market share

The last nine months were earth-shattering for Alcoa.

Commercial fleet operator SES is talking to Lockheed Martin and other suppliers about the potential to service spacecraft in geostationary orbit.

Moth inspires agile thinking; aerospike rocket looks for liftoff; tethered UAVs for safer cities; Amazon a step closer to delivery drones and other unmanned news

Test flights are getting underway of a Boeing 757 with an actively blown vertical tail and new wing-leading-edge sections, which could pave the way for the wider use of natural laminar and active flow control technology in future airliner designs.

A new problem may have emerged to push the Long March 7 first flight into 2016.

Giving up Sikorsky is shortsighted and could prove to be more of a disservice than a boon to investors.

European ANSPs highlight progress on SES through common controller definition being developed jointly across four countries.

FAA’s deep dive into historical airline figures reveals how radically the industry has restructured over the past 20 years.