Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Target Arm will showcase a prototype universal launch and recovery system for unmanned aircraft at a U.S. Army technology demonstration.
Aerospace

Boeing delivered more commercial airplanes than any manufacturer for the sixth consecutive year and set an industry record with 763 deliveries in 2017, driven by high output of the market-leading 737 and 787 jets.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo, MBDA and Qinetiq are providing the technologies for the UK’s directed-energy weapon capability demonstrator.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
DLR cuts aircraft noise; Airbus tests teaming; Bell demos Hydra; NASA picks demos; Airbus backs Biosteel.
Aerospace

African governments, companies and organisations are becoming increasingly adept at strengthening their security to fend off cyber attacks. Now, as Steve Knight reports, they face a new threat – the rise of the ‘blagger’.
Aerospace

New Pentagon undersecretary of defense for research and engineering says the U.S.’s real work of developing hypervelocity weapons systems is just beginning.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
In tests in Australia, using a Cessna Caravan iron bird, startup MagniX runs its electric motor with a propeller for the first time.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Transcend Air defines an approach to intercity air travel that combines schedule services with tiltwing VTOL aircraft.
Air Transport

South African Airways (SAA) has issued a statement saying it is on track with its turnaround strategy with quarter one results showing that the company is ahead of the plan in its trading performance.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris, Irene Klotz
Spaceplane drives design of world’s largest additively made liquid rocket engine for Stratolaunch family of vehicles.
Space

By Guy Norris
PGA-powered high-speed vehicle could double-up as stepping stone to Black Ice spaceplane as well as hypersonic flying testbed.
Space

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
The mood at the AIAA Spaceplanes and Hypersonics conference was bullish amid growing investment in space infrastructure and hypersonic development. Listen in as our editors discuss their findings.
Aerospace

By Richard Aboulafia
Japan is one of the world’s most important supplier nations, but events this year show that its position faces major challenges.
Air Transport

World Fuel Services has been named fuel supplier for thirteen legs of the historic Raid Latécoère- Aéropostale rally in its centenary year.
Aerospace

Investec Aviation Finance has launched its fourth aircraft leasing fund to acquire some of the latest generation Airbus and Boeing narrow and widebody aircraft, on lease to a range of international airlines. The team has a 10 plus year track record in the space having successfully exited their previous three equity leasing funds.
Aerospace

Ethiopian Airlines has been crowned Best African Airline at the Arabian Travel Awards 2018, the second edition of Arabian Travel Awards, held on 20 September 2018 in Dubai, having been voted as the winners by travellers.
Aerospace

Tulinda Larsen
Small drone businesses face hurdles with the regulatory process that the FAA needs to remedy.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Looking ahead to a future where drone fleets and air taxis share urban airspace, Mitre Corp. proposes a dedicated drone-to-drone surveillance system.
Aerospace

By Bill Carey
U.S. airlines and air traffic controllers are realizing benefits from using text-based messages to supplement radio communications.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
GE’s fluidic propulsion tie-up; Astro eVTOL flies in Canada; SureFly buyer sought; XTI advances TriFan; TsAGI’s superconducting eVTOL.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
The U.S. faces an uphill battle for hypersonic supremacy, warns Michael Griffin, the Pentagon’s new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Defense

CADG chose AAD to launch its new manned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platform – Helix.
Aerospace

Aerosud Aviation has selected DB Schenker South Africa as its new logistics partner.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
MBDA has begun flight-testing an armed eVTOL aircraft concept.
Defense

South Africa’s National Airways Corporation (NAC) unveiled Bell’s newest commercial aircraft, the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X to the African market.
Aerospace