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This year’s highlights from Le Bourget include a massive airplane order and the looming AAM shakeout.

We asked Dave Calhoun when the company is going to roll out its next airplane. Listen in to hear his answer.

Demand has come back, but a lot of workers haven't. Here's what that means for commercial aviation, defense and MRO.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award a contract for a fighter aircraft to replace the F-22 Raptor in 2024.

Aerospace Industries Association chief Eric Fanning joins our reporters to talk about the FAA's leadership woes and chronic underfunding of ATC.

Listen in as Bombardier's Tonya Sudduth talks about what making Wichita its U.S. headquarters has meant for that site and how it fits into the OEM's strategy.

What's behind the grounding of scores of airplanes and how Pratt is working to fix it.

Dual-use aircraft could serve as a military tanker while ushering Northrop Grumman into the airliner business.

Deliveries have plummeted and Airbus is doubling down with a new assembly line. Analysts Sash Tusa and Richard Aboulafia join Aviation Week editors to discuss.

Richard Branson’s launch venture ran out of cash. Could a buyer pick up the valuable pieces?

Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the McDonnell Douglas MD-11’s legacy now that FedEx and UPS have both announced plans to retire the trijet.

The complex path to hydrogen propulsion, and why air travel will get more expensive.

Listen in to hear about progress of the AIR One, a two-seater eVTOL marketed as a personal daily commuter vehicle for those with a pilot’s license.

Rotorcraft are ripe for disruption, but eVTOL makers were largely absent at the signature Heli-Expo show.

Airbus and Boeing will be building a lot more A350s, A330neos, 787s and 777Xs in the coming years—Wall Street analyst Rob Spingarn explains why.

Aviation Week’s team discusses Air India’s massive aircraft order and defense highlights from Aero India.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss a week of high drama, including the shootdown of China's balloon and the future of high-altitude surveillance.

Listen in as business editor Michael Bruno and analysts Richard Aboulafia and Rob Epstein discuss aerospace's big problem.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors reflect on the 747's beginning and its legacy.

December delivery figures suggest the airplane manufacturers’ supply chain, quality and labor problems may be easing. Listen to our team break down the numbers.

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.