Aviation Week & Space Technology

India’s space program has ambitious goals, including new missions to the Moon and Mars, and improved Earth-observation, communications and GPS capabilities

Facing increased competition, Bombardier has updated its popular super-midsize business jet with improved avionics, more powerful engines, new winglets and cabin enhancements. For a modest price increase, the resulting Challenger 350 provides a significant increase in value.

When it comes to military combat aircraft, 2015 is supposed to mark a change from fourth- to fifth-generation aircraft in the U.S.

Pilots learning to fly the P-8A Poseidon are spending a majority of their time in simulator-based training.

The Air Force’s training school for operators of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) sees surging demand for enrollment.

F-15 Eagle

A-10 Thunderbolt II

AIDC (Aerospace Industrial Development Corp.) F-CK-1

More Bumps In The Road Likely The loss of the Orbital Antares launch vehicle and of SpaceShipTwo in the course of less than a week is certainly proof that spaceflight is complex and dangerous.

Despite reducing seat pitch on some aircraft and adding bag fees for some fares, JetBlue is confident it can protect its brand, appeal to its target market and differentiate itself from competitors.

The aircraft generating smiles in Wichita of late is neither sexy nor new.

Using cost advantages, India seeking to become major player in satellite space-launch market.

Korea Aerospace Industries T/TA/FA-50

Five years after his most recent advisory panel, Norm Augustine sees NASA making some progress toward human spaceflight, but hurdles remain.

Feb. 1-3—Routes Americas. Denver. See www.routesonline.com/events/172/Feb. 1-3 Feb. 3-6—NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference. San Jose, California. See www.nbaa.org/events/sdc/2015/ Feb. 11-14—LPBA’s Winter Convention. Sunscape Sabor Resort. Cozumel, Mexico. See www.LPBA.org

Jan. 13-14—MRO Latin America, Buenos Aires. Feb. 2-3—MRO Middle East, Dubai. March 5—Laureate Awards, Washington. April 14-16—MRO Americas, Miami.

Everyone pays attention to China’s new fighters, but the most important developments may be closer to the ground.

Aviation Week Senior Editor Guy Norris takes us on a test flight of the automatic air collision avoidance system, auto ACAS, with the U.S. Air Force 416th Flight-Test Sqdn.

Testing USAF’s new fighter collision avoidance poses challenges in preventing mishaps during the test-flight evaluation process

New report criticizes government policy toward airlines in France, suggesting remedies to improve competitiveness

Deep space is the ultimate focus of Exploration Flight Test-1, because the Orion capsule is the vehicle that will keep crew members alive during some of the most dynamic minutes of missions to the “proving ground,” around the Moon and, ultimately Mars.

Until recently, the future appeared bright for aeroengine titan Rolls-Royce.

Pentagon and Wall Street veterans underscore why the challenges facing the aerospace and defense industry run much deeper than sequestration.

Air Greenland is adopting improved procedures for pilots on difficult approaches following the January 2014 accident that destroyed a Dash 8-200.

Unmanned aircraft are most often viewed as augmenting manned aircraft, perhaps eventually replacing some of them, but a more likely future lies in their becoming intimately essential to each other. Two new U.S. research notices give hints of such an outcome.