Aerospace

By Guy Norris
The medium-thrust UltraFan design launch signals Rolls’ commitment to single-aisle market ventures as its large engine variant moves toward new tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Another Chinese eVTOL flies; artificial intelligence beats human in drone race; detonation-powered hypersonics.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Cormorant Aerospace plans to build the initial version of its planned eight-passenger amphibious aircraft with turbogenerator-based hybrid-electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Artificial intelligence has beaten a human pilot in drone races conducted in Abu Dhabi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer AVIC has flown a full-scale demonstrator of its AR-E3000 electric vertical-takeoff-landing-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Electra.aero has secured $115 million Series B funding to move the EL9 aircraft into the pre-production and certification phase.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The AVIC AG600 has attained type-certification from the CAAC; at a MTOW of 60 tons, it is the world’s largest commercial amphibian aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing 737-8 aircraft originally destined for China have been flown back to the U.S., as trade tensions continue to mount between Washington and Beijing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Earth observation pioneer Planet Labs sees large language models speeding up analysis of images to improve understanding.
Satellites

By Thierry Dubois, Graham Warwick
While Lufthansa Technik sees riblet films as most suitable for older-generation widebodies, MicroTau targets the Airbus A320 narrowbody.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Rotating detonation engines have huge potential for realizing efficient high-speed flight, but they are proving fiendishly difficult to get right.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Qatar Airways display its ‘Qsuite Next Gen’ – the newest iteration of its multiple award-winning patented Qsuite Business Class, during the Arabian Travel Market (ATM).
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Archer has revealed the specifics of its planned air taxi launch network in New York City.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Skyports Drone Services has acquired Australian startup Redbird Aero.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau
Editors are joined by Wall Street analyst Scott Mikus to break down how global trade turmoil affects OEMs.
Check 6

By Thierry Dubois
Investment Fund Capza has entered exclusive negotiations to become the majority shareholder of metal component supplier Mecadaq.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce is in the final stages of flight tests of its ALECSys (Advanced Low-Emissions Combustion System) lean-burn combustor system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Taiwan’s state-backed drone industry alliance is expeditiously decoupling from China-based supply chains, Chairman Hu Kai-Hung tells Aviation Week.
Supply Chain

By Vivienne Machi, Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
Companies say they are ready to support the White House’s Golden Dome initiative. They just need the green light.
Space Symposium

By Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno, Matthew Fulco, Steve Trimble, Lindsay Bjerregaard, Lee Ann Shay, James Pozzi, Christine Boynton, Lori Ranson, Jens Flottau, Helen Massy-Beresford
The new Trump tariffs and trade wars could indelibly alter the global aerospace and defense industry.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The C-130’s new role opens the door for a novel class of mass-produced, low-cost cruise missiles to enter U.S. and foreign weapon inventories.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
A coalition concept for future airspace calls for integrating automation into safety-critical ATM to meet the demands of an increasingly complex environment.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
China’s Comac is studying a potential low-boom supersonic airliner for possible mid-century market entry; a study published in China details the design.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Lufthansa Technik is studying how its fuel burn reducing AeroShark riblet film can be engineered to cover a greater proportion of the aircraft.
Emerging Technologies