Aviation Week & Space Technology

New leadership is in place at Air Berlin, where hopes are high that CEO Stefan Pichler will be able to guide the airline back to profitability after years of decline.

With a first fight of almost 5 hr., Bombardier’s larger CSeries makes a confident debut in the program that has accelerated in pace after early difficulties.

The NextGen Fund maintains that the money and equipment are available to make the general aviation fleet ADS-B compliant, but the time to do so is running out.

Bristow and AgustaWestland aim to transform offshore flying operations.

Pilot shortages continue to attract a lot of interest, especially from mainline pilots; Reimpowering local airports to offer affordable pilot training is suggested; Leave it to the law of supply and demand to smooth out the looming pilot shortage, says one reader; Stress levels for pilots of remotely piloted aircraft is weighed; Recommendations to make dual-flight recorders, especially on overwater flights, mandatory; Setting the record straight about the first lifting body sent to space.

An alert from top United Airlines safety officials is raising concerns about safety culture at the third-largest airline in the U.S. and beyond.

Lawmakers consider removing ATC and modernization from FAA’s list of duties; Pentagon to guard nuclear weapons dollars; and an incoming chairman vows to continue blocking Chinese space cooperation.

CEOs are often unprepared for their myriad challenges. Pressure to consolidate across borders could ratchet up the pressure.

U.S. Air Force Space Command took nearly a month to openly acknowledge to the press that one of the country’s oldest satellites fragmented into 43 pieces in orbit last month, creating a debris field.

The winners of Aviation Week's annual Laureate Awards, honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena, were announced at a gala dinner in Washington DC on March 5, 2015.

It’s hard to get a better look at a runway incident than having dozens of steerable electro-optical cameras and millimeter-wave radars trained on the impending action.

R odney A. Makoske has been named senior vice president-corporate engineering, technology and operations, and Dana “Keoki” Jackson vice president/chief technology officer of the Lockheed Martin Corp. , Bethesda, Maryland.

Intriguing ideas, some of which could have an eventual impact on the aerospace sector, have emerged from universities worldwide where student teams are competing in Airbus’s “Fly Your Ideas” contest.

Investors loved Boeing’s fourth-quarter 2014 financials, but scratch a little deeper and there’s a serious problem.

Despite recent test failures, Israel hopes to achieve initial operational capability for Arrow anti-missile system in 2016.

South Korean fighter program progresses with Korean Air Lines/Airbus teaming to bid for KF-X fighter contract.

Three spacecraft, with a fourth to follow, are exploring frozen worlds that may explain the origin of life on Earth.

Kremlin bloviating notwithstanding, both the U.S. and Russia understand that human-spaceflight cooperation is a buffer against hostility.

Watch Mark Carreau interview NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station.

The X4, now called the H160, is Airbus Helicopters’ €1 billion gamble to retake a market long monopolized by AgustaWestland.

The sleek design of the Airbus Helicopters H160 is supposed to represent a major change in direction for the company, with new development processes and production techniques.

Successor to the AS365 Dauphin has been decades in the making.

The number and rate for the most severe incursions at towered airports in the U.S. appear to be in check and are well below the FAA’s safety goal.

Runway safety has evolved from a “silver bullet” mind-set to one of technological, procedural, educational and analytical interventions optimized for one particular runway or hot spot.

The FAA says its runway safety area improvement effort is paying the biggest dividends possible: lives saved.