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By Bradley Perrett
Ask the Editors: The global battle for airframe dominance is now a battle between Airbus and Boeing, but could Comac shake up the scene?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steven Grundman
Facing flat budgets, the military will need strategic focus to leverage every dollar.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A hypersonic glide vehicle program led by DARPA is now combined with the U.S. Air Force's AGM-183A program as the 419th Flight Test Sqdn. completes the last step ahead of powered booster flight tests later this year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
COVID-19 has slowed the FAA’s 17-year march toward airspace modernization.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron, Linda Blachly
Casualty figures were reportedly rising the evening of Aug. 7 after an Air India Express Boeing 737-800, en route from Dubai to Calicut, overshot the
Airlines & Lessors

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
This week, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Benhken splashed down in their SpaceX Dragon capsule in the Gulf of Mexico after two months at the
Defense

By Fred George
Much attention has been given to the FAA’s clampdown on illicit charter and “damp” dry leases, two of the main schemes that are used to circumvent the
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
Embraer will push back the planned entry-into-service date for its E175-E2 until 2023, as the Brazilian manufacturer contends with weak airliner demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Airline maintenance is a lagging indicator of global passenger and cargo demand.
MRO

By Steve Trimble
Ask the Editors: The F-15EX is a product of digital engineering, but it is not representative of the Digital Century Series initiative.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The OEM is releasing solutions for dealing with grounded aircraft, remote maintenance training and medevac conversions.
MRO

Craig Gottlieb
Ten years ago, with a global recession fresh in memory, researchers asked a question: What distinguishes companies that flourish after a downturn? The
MRO

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems will build a full-scale fuselage section of the notional Tempest design in its factory of the future trials.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Robin Lineberger
Leaders who embrace digital transformation can help hard-hit companies rebound from the pandemic.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin has chosen a proposed new variant of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to compete for the sea-based Regional Glide Phase Weapon prototyping program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Karen Walker
Ask the Editors: The TSA and Homeland Security should be mandating such checks and tests.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, flying as test pilots for the SpaceX Demonstration Mission-2 (Demo-2), landed in flat seas and 2 mph winds at 2:48 p.m. EDT, capping NASA’s six-year effort to restore U.S. human orbital flight capability after the space shuttles’ retirement in 2011.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Ask the Editors: There’s a way to go before propulsion electrification, but the type certification of aircraft begins to lay the bricks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

A new surge in U.S. coronavirus cases has stalled a fragile recovery in airline traffic. Listen in as Aviation Week speak to Accenture’s aerospace
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
The Pentagon identified two programs to support NGAD in 2014, then went silent; one has reemerged in budget documents this year.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
High-speed airliner developer Boom Supersonic and engine-maker Rolls-Royce have agreed to study propulsion system concepts for the Colorado-based company’s proposed Mach 2.2 Overture aircraft design.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Reeling in March from the suddenness and depth of the COVID-19 crisis, the air transport industry at least cautiously believed that the second half of 2020 would see the beginnings of a turnaround.
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Business aviation activity moved toward normal in late June following a bumpy period caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with small jet and turboprop utilization in June back to pre-COVID-19 levels, according to data from Aviation Week Network’s Intelligence and Data Services.
Z

By Guy Norris
Facing another heavy quarterly loss of $2.4 billion, the COVID-19-triggered market downturn, and continued uncertainty over the timing of the return-to-service of the 737 MAX, Boeing is making further cutbacks to its commercial aircraft production rates, studying additional layoffs and delaying deliveries of the 777X until 2022
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Ask the Editors: A recent round-table highlighted the future of combat offerings from a number of countries. Who else is on the radar?
Aircraft & Propulsion