Aerospace

By Keith Mwanalushi
Jeh Aerospace is leveraging digital technology to ramp up manufacturing capacity, aiming to alleviate supply chain bottlenecks.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
Swiss startup Jekta has completed its second 1:9-scale prototype amphibious seaplane and is preparing to launch into a flight test campaign in January.
Advanced Air Mobility

JEN MESZAROS
David Peng, vice president of Marketing at WeFly, sat down with Aviation Week to discuss progress on the startup’s five-seat W280 eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Diehl Aviation is designing more modular cabin monuments and developing ways to increase onboard water reuse.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Guy Norris
Boom Supersonic is developing an industrial gas turbine version of its Symphony turbofan to power AI data centers which will fund its Mach 1.7 Overture airliner.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
Beehive says Frenzy test results for performance, ignition at altitude, operability, and durability “met or exceeded challenging Air Force requirements.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
A house aviation subcommittee meeting turned unexpectedly combative as Beta Technologies CEO Kyle Clark clashed with lawmakers over electric aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Confident about overcoming design challenges, Aura Aero presses on with hybrid-electric ERA development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
GoAero eVTOL prize progress; wind farm radar clutter; Archer licenses tiltrotor tech; and JAL expands atmospheric sampling.
Emerging Technologies

By Vivienne Machi
Gen. Michael Guetlein, Golden Dome program director, said the first batch of contracts for space-based interceptor technology were awarded in November.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon says there is a commitment to deliver a new U.S. Navy fighter even as the F/A-XX source selection process remains stalled and industrial base capacity is uncertain.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The uncrewed air vehicle (UAV) is designed to operate in challenging environments, such as flying over mountains, rivers, lakes, and bays.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Matthew Fulco
The companies will integrate Spacesail's low-Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity into Airbus' High Bandwidth Connectivity (HBC)-plus.
Connected Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
The California hypersonic missile startup is increasing its overall capital war chest to $464.5 million since emerging from stealth mode nearly two years ago.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Bye Aerospace has partnered with experienced carbon fiber prototyping and manufacturing company Composite Approach.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Workers at Seville-based supplier Sofitec Aero had alerted Airbus about manufacturing problems on fuselage panels, labor union UGT FICA said.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau
Watch as editors break down why Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems and discuss Boeing’s turnaround which appears to have taken another step forward.
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau
Airbus will again miss its delivery target due to supplier quality problems as Boeing’s turnaround takes another step forward. Listen in as our editors break it all down.
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Steven Grundman
The author of the 1997 U.S. defense acquisition reform plan critiques Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new strategy.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jens Flottau
Reaching its 2025 delivery goal was always going to be challenging for Airbus. Now it turns out it is unachievable.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Peraton has been chosen as the sole integrator in the ambitious U.S. DOT plan to upgrade the country’s air traffic control infrastructure by 2029.
Safety, Ops & Regulation