Aviation Week & Space Technology

New CEO to focus on program execution and margin improvement as Bombardier moves to increase liquidity and position itself for an uncertain future.

In the future, most astronauts will select themselves, largely on the basis of their ability to buy a ticket.

New program starts are going to be extremely hard-fought and without increased budgets, and extensions of mature lines also may be more difficult.

Seeing an end to its monopoly, ULA turns toward a commercial model.

Obama administration announces long-awaited new export guidelines for military UAVs.

Annual aircraft shipment counts suggest the general aviation market is recovering, but challenges remain.

The U.S. Air Force is having difficulty explaining how a request for $220.5 million for a “red-air” aggressor aircraft got into the fiscal 2016 budget plan for the T-X sent to Congress.

To grow and improve their financial results, LCCs in Japan must expand into competitors’ hub airports and add international services.

An in-depth study underscores the worsening work conditions for LCC crewmembers, especially pilots, in Europe.

The two major airlines in Continental Europe face an uphill battle as they struggle to regain profitability. First up will be persuading employees to agree to more concessions.

Even if India does not meet its requirement for 1,000 new helicopters by 2020, its military will be ordering a vast number of new rotorcraft.

ESA’s final ATV mission means Russia’s Progress freighter is the only vehicle left to reboost and ultimately de-orbit the ISS.

NASA’s human-spaceflight chief urges the private sector to start preparing to replace the ISS with a commercial space station.

Because the platform is vulnerable to extreme conditions, SpaceX intends to equip the vessel with additional station-keeping capability.

The Southern U.S., with many favorable attributes, continues to attract business aviation manufacturers from Europe and Japan.

More than six years in the making, the FAA’s proposed rules for small unmanned aircraft cannot be finalized fast enough for those on either side of the argument over UAS in civil airspace.

Hard-won data from 30 years of space shuttle missions can shape the design of next-generation human spacecraft in areas ranging from vehicle reuse to helping crewmembers survive an accident.

The dramatic drop in oil prices is not opportune for the biofuel industry, as its tries to move from R&D into commercialization and volume delivery of alternative jet fuels.

Falling oil prices could slow growth and rein in aircraft acquisition plans for offshore helicopter services.

Despite interest from a few carriers and lessors, Boeing is still skeptical that launching a new version of the 757 would be justified by market demand.

So far, laser weapons have been deemed too big, too expensive and insufficiently lethal for mainstream use. General Atomics says it has taken steps to solving that problem.

The Pentagon’s $585 billion request for fiscal 2016 may far outpace spending by other countries, but if current budget caps force a reduction, lawmakers are looking for ways to help balance the books. Five high-profile defense analysts from Washington think tanks offered suggestions to the House Armed Services Committee Feb. 11. Some echoed the Pentagon’s recommendations to cut bases, personnel and compensation. But many of those ideas have been rejected by Congress year after year, and in that light, Rep.

Too few bright-eyed students are opting for careers in the cockpit, despite the promise of readily available jobs.

DEFENSE Northrop Grumman has scrapped plans to offer BAE Systems’ Hawk for the $1 billion U.S. Air Force T-38 replacement program, opting instead for a clean-sheet trainer. Subsidiary Scaled Composites is to fly a prototype by year-end. A competition is expected to begin in fiscal 2016, and Boeing also plans a clean-sheet design (page 58) .

Crash shows helicopter’s strong point; U.K. government backing inflates hybrid airship; unmanned aircraft to help manage crises; UAS tolerates crashes, wins prize; two biofuels from one algae.