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Dealmaking slowed down in the second half of 2022, but the year ended with a bang.

Listen in as three Aviation Week editors discuss—and sometimes debate—whether Boom’s new supersonic engine plan is for real.

Is propulsion falling behind airframers’ ambitions? Listen in as our editors break it down.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors report from the Airbus Summit in Toulouse.

As Archer Aviation unveils its four-passenger production air taxi, the Midnight, Aviation Week editors discuss the shifting competitive dynamics in the nascent advanced air mobility market where three rival OEMs with differing approaches push toward FAA certification and operation.

Aviation Week editors are skeptical of CEO Dave Calhoun’s new commercial airliner timeline.

The industry is looking to digitalization to offset higher prices and workforce challenges.

What does the talent pipeline look like and is training evolving to better train for competency? Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President Barry Butler talks with Aviation Week.

Aviation Week Network editors at the NBAA-BACE 2022 discuss market outlook, technology, SAF and more.

Pushed by the drive for sustainability, novel propulsion systems that until relatively recently seemed years away are quickly coming into focus.

Will the United Nations' aviation organization back airlines’ call for a carbon net-zero goal by 2050?

On Oct. 14, eight renovated galleries of the museum in Washington, D.C., will reopen to the public. Chris Browne, the museum’s John and Adrienne Mars director,

The U.S. military services are looking for a range of autonomous aircraft—from expensive high-end aircraft to less costly lower end systems. Aviation Week editors discuss what industry is offering, particularly for mid-range attritable systems, and some of the complications involved with cultivating the new technology.

Nobody wanted a twin-aisle. Now there may not be enough of them. Listen in to find out why.

As the aerospace industry gathers in Montreal, the challenges of getting to net-zero are laid bare.

Program managers are in the middle of the maelstrom, wrestling with issues many have never dealt with in their careers. Aviation Week editors discuss what they heard at the 2022 Program Excellence Evaluation Team meeting in August.

Nearly two decades after the Concorde was retired, is the rival of supersonic air travel for real?

FAA okay to re-start deliveries ends a long saga, but now Boeing has a new problem to worry about. Listen in as our specialists break down the situation—and the numbers.

Airlines are angry about an FAA proposal to address the risk of interference from new 5G wireless towers in the U.S.

No blockbusters but lots to talk about. Listen in to what our editors saw at Farnborough Airshow.

Step behind the scenes with Aviation Week editors to hear about their sit downs with Guillaume Faury and David Calhoun prior to Farnborough Airshow.

As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.

The aircraft manufacturers are short hundreds of engines as suppliers can’t keep pace with demand to build and maintain airplanes. Listen in as we break down th

Wichita-based Textron Aviation uses vertical assembly in the production of the Citation Latitude to aid in the assembly process.

For new space and advanced air mobility startups, the past two years have been a heady experience of investment, mergers with special purpose acquisition companies and high-risk plays into segments of the aerospace and defense industry that were mere dreams a decade ago. As the economy changes, Aviation Week editors discuss what comes next.