Aviation Week & Space Technology

An official Chinese report outlines the efforts that Avic’s factories and research institutes are putting into advanced manufacturing technology, from friction-stir welding to resin-transfer infusion.

A former precision manufacturer for the automobile industry is building tail fins for the F-35.

Don’t look at what new Pentagon projects look like this year. Worry about how to pay for them in the 2020s.

Merger & Acquisitions will pick up at most levels of industry; the lower level will be the more active.

“It has been communicated at the highest levels that India and Russia need to have something to show for the program this year,” says an Indian defense ministry official. But crucial issues remain to be resolved.

The system is competing to meet the requirements of Crowsnest, a British Royal Navy program to provide an organic AEW capability on the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.

Bombardier’s cancellation of the Lear 85 is symptomatic of two much larger issues that the company must confront in the near future.

Harris, Exelis merger, if approved, will create second-largest midtier A&D contractor

Probably more than anything, Taiwan’s China Airlines wants access to transfer traffic from mainland China.

Early next year, aviation will help change life on the remote British island of St. Helena.

A joint widebody airliner project between Russia and China is one step closer to coming to fruition.

India now allows foreign companies to own 49% of joint ventures, but without the ability to control more decisions, global investors are finding other ways to enter the market there.

With FAA approval to use unmanned aircraft for aerial photography and a deal with Planet Labs to buy satellite imagery, Woolpert plans to bring the two together to enable new geospatial information services.

India’s private defense contractors are jumping into the space that the government has opened for them. Many have experience, but not always enough. And the biggest projects look too risky for them.

Analysts say India’s airlines are set to post their best operational performance in the last five years.

Despite the fluctuation in India’s airline sector, outside investors see promise there.

Air France is being pummeled by outside factors such as the proliferation of low-cost airlines infringing on its territory, but perhaps the biggest shadow is being cast by their “brother” executives at KLM.

The CEOs want the Obama administration to begin government-to-government negotiations with Qatar and the UAE to examine alleged subsidies and overcapacity on routes between the U.S. and those countries.

While the A380neo’s development might cost “only” $2.5 billion, wouldn’t that money be better spent enhancing another successful program?

Just over one hundred days into new ownership and after a restructuring that changed the shape and face of the airline, British leisure carrier Monarch Airlines says it is on course for stability and profitability in 2015.

ICAO task force to study concepts for sharing risk data and to create guidance for developing risk assessments that states can use to decide when to issue warnings or close airspace.

After failed experiments with Airbus A380s and A330s, the third-largest Japanese carrier is pruning its network and may link with rival carriers.

Reader disputes Aviation Week's choice of Putin as Person of the Year; Human factors emphasized as area of concern for recent crashes, FAA Certification System is lauded; Real-time transmission of flight and voice data is urged; Overlapping capabilities of sensors should serve all branches of science, not just address military concerns; The efficacy of Single Pilot Operations is questioned

Unmanned aircraft guides firefighting robot; carrier landings made easier; a simpler approach to thrust vectoring; unmanned helicopter competes on cost with cargo trucks; Europe steps up work on reusable spaceflight.

Low-cost X-planes, electric propulsion and autonomous vehicles to get a boost under NASA’s aeronautics research plans for 2015 and 2016.