Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week editors discuss Ted Colbert's appointment and the challenges he faces as the new head of Boeing's $26 billion defense and space unit.

Footage published online appears to show two Ukrainian Mil Mi-24 attack helicopters striking the storage site with unguided rockets.

The service also is increasing funding requests for the Future Vertical Lift program.

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

$194 billion budget proposes deep divestments to free up funding for research and development.

The Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant X team has made the longest flight yet with its SB-1 technology demonstrator, flying the coaxial-rotor compound helicopter from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee, for display at the Army Aviation Association of America (Quad-A) show on April 3-5.

Five bidders have been downselected as potential buyers for troubled Italian aerospace firm Piaggio Aerospace.

PAL Aerospace and Thales have signed a strategic agreement to co-develop new maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) mission systems, hoping to entice the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) for its MPA program.

Canada narrows fighter selection to F-35, begins negotiations for purchase of 88 aircraft.

Struggling helicopter original equipment manufacturer MD Helicopters is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to allow the company to be restructured under new ownership.

U.S. unmanned air logistics company Volansi has unveiled its largest and longest-flying aircraft to date.

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have begun ground tests of the XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee.

As part of long-term plans to pave the way for the adoption of sustainable aviation fuel by the U.S. Air Force and other military services, Rolls-Royce will test the engine destined for the Boeing B-52H retrofit program with 100% low carbon fuel around midyear.

The UK Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) wants to acquire its own flying testbed for rapid development and demonstrations of equipment.

The contract awards come as the UK retires the majority of its Hawk T1 fleet as part of cost-saving measures introduced in the government’s Integrated Review published last year.

D-Fend Solutions, a five-year-old Israeli counter-drone company with a growing North American presence, plans to become a publicly traded company, co-founder, Chairman and CEO Zohar Halachmi told Aviation Week in March.

These aircraft programs were the big winners in the Biden administration's fiscal 2023 budget request, with the Lockheed Martin F-35 topping the list.

The “mature” detect-and-avoid technology could enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations for UAVs within the U.S. National Airspace System, the company says.

Boeing announced late March 28 that Leanne Caret, head of the company’s defense and space division, is retiring after seven years leading the business and 35 ye

Comparing the former Trump administration's projections for fiscal 2023 with the Biden administration's fiscal 2023 request.

Safran Helicopter Engines is proposing final assembly and testing of Aneto 1K engines for Leonardo’s AW149 in the UK if the rotorcraft and the engine are selected for the UK defense ministry’s New Medium Helicopter (NMH) requirement.

The air force is already training with the UK on secondhand E-3D Sentries to upgrade its AEW&C capabilities.

Greece is purchasing six more Dassault Rafales from France, boosting its planned fleet to 24 aircraft.

Airbus has selected GE Aviation’s Catalyst turboprop engine as the powerplant for the Eurodrone medium-altitude long-endurance uncrewed air system.

The maintenance center for the Pratt & Whitney F135 is rebounding from a dismal performance in 2019 and 2020, which led to an engine shortage and the grounding of more than 50 U.S. F-35s.