Aerospace

Coulson Aviation sees potential for 20 Boeing 767 VLATs, offering multi-mission capability.

Kelly Austin and Jennifer Schaeffer from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University share their pride in having six students recognized as 2026 Aviation Week 20 Twenties winners.

Amy Bahrani, AI & Data senior manager at Accenture, celebrates the next generation of aerospace innovators through Aviation Week's 20 Twenties program.

Reliable Robotics has completed an FAA contract to conduct detect-and-avoid data collection flights in and around airport environments.

The regional airframer has envisaged the hybrid-electric ATR EVO since the early 2020s, and after periods of uncertainty, the project is gaining fresh momentum.

Beijing controls 85-90% of global rare earth-refining capacity and more than 90% of high-performance magnet production.

Can quantum computing solve one of the intractable problems in aerospace engineering—numerical simulation of the aerodynamics of a full aircraft in cruise flight with all turbulence resolved?

More than any other technological advance, aerospace and defense is banking on automation to help it meet rising product demand across the board.

Italian startup 19-01 Holdings is advancing plans for the WF-X amphibious aircraft, a multi-mission platform designed to redefine aerial firefighting and beyond.

KULR Technology Group is moving into electric aviation with a pact to provide the battery system for Robinson's eR66 electric light helicopter demonstrator.

Vietnam Helicopter Corporation subsidiaries have ordered three Airbus H225 medium-lift helicopters for offshore energy operations and fleet renewal.

Vertical Aerospace has completed its first piloted one-way transition flight, marking new progress in its program to develop an eVTOL air taxi.

Demonstrating quantum CFD; improved hydrogen-electric propulsion; counter-UAS on an eVTOL; and fuel-cell/turbine combination.

The FAA’s 2027 budget request of $22.35 billion is a slight reduction from the current year’s enacted total of $22.57 billion, documents from the agency show.

NASA shifts focus to flight research as budget cuts reshape aeronautics priorities, emphasizing X-planes, hypersonics and automated airspace systems.

U.S. startup Hydroplane plans to hover-test a hydrogen-electric propulsion system in a light helicopter under an extension to a small-business contact awarded by the U.S. Army.

German aerospace research center DLR has released the results of the flight tests conducted with Airbus and CFM International in 2023.

Germany has launched a research program to develop the next generation of hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system components for a zero-emission commercial aircraft.

The agency wants commercial companies to take on a larger role in its Artemis lunar exploration initiative.

The U.S. is winning the cost-exchange ratio with Iran—but the victory might end up being pyrrhic.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.

After 20 years of development, an Orion spacecraft flies with crew for the first time.

The FAA has published the special conditions for certification of ZeroAvia’s ZA601 electric propulsion unit.

As NASA begins X-59 envelope expansion and Boom develops its first high speed engine, civil supersonic activity is at its highest since the retirement of Concorde in 2003. Editors discuss the latest developments and the challenges that lie ahead.