Aviation Week & Space Technology

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

As the first Croatian Rafales arrive, neighboring Serbia lays out plans for its own procurement of the French fighter.

The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.

The two German air taxi companies need state support to exit a funding crisis, but party politics and risk aversion may force their sale to foreign investors.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Investors have plowed billions of dollars into eVTOL ventures but now many are running out of cash. Listen in to hear the latest on the plight of Lilium and Volocopter.

Cancellation of the U.S. Army’s scout helicopter program is driving focus on UAS and uncrewed teaming.

The OEM’s two-decade experiment in remote management has failed.

The Alia eVTOL makes the first piloted full transitions between vertical and horizontal flight.

Steep costs, capacity swings and Boeing woes compounded an already seasonally challenging quarter for U.S. airlines.

Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Survivable Airborne Operations Center selections favor private companies as major primes set sights on larger awards.

The country is shaking up space exploration, commerce and the broader geopolitical picture.

Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.

European satellite communications provider SES is to buy U.S.-based rival Intelsat in a bid to tackle competition from other low-Earth-orbit services.

Boeing never built the 7J7, but its legacy continues to be felt to this day. Listen in to hear how technology once studied for that program could re-emerge on the company’s next new airplane almost 40 years later.

Lockheed’s road map to victory provides clues for the sixth-generation combat aircraft program.

Six European countries are expected to have placed orders for 24 DHC-515s by the summer.

Despite a comfortable backlog, the country’s industry continues to grapple with financial woes and recovering know-how.

The company is making aircraft improvements and looking to collaboration and technology transfer to facilitate US-2 seaplane exports.

End-to-end urban air mobility demo; integrating airborne collision avoidance system into autonomy; ZeroAvia eyes wider electric market; electrifying the Beaver

Bombardier, Embraer, and Gulfstream have shown new aircraft can be developed at reasonable prices.

The industry is in a different place than during the Cold War and has a major war at its backdoor.

Supply chain problems with different root causes will keep output below previous forecasts for much of 2024, as 737 challenges draw more scrutiny.

COVID-19 wiped out six years of growth and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value.

Aviation Week editors assess the recent performance of Israel’s air and missile defense umbrella and discuss new missile defense technology needed to address potential and evolving threats.