Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Skyborg is the tip of the iceberg in a multiservice push to bring autonomous control systems from laboratories to the battlefield.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Special Operations Command recently released a request for proposals for Armed Overwatch, with a production award expected in spring 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
A second prototype of the Boeing Airpower Teaming System (ATS) has commenced flight tests at Australia’s Woomera Range Complex.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus and France’s Dassault Aviation are still ironing out details of the work sharing agreement they reached last spring for the trinational Future Combat Air System program, according to Airbus Defense and Space CEO Michael Schoellhorn.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Active sales campaigns for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are underway in the Czech Republic, Greece and Spain, officials say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Airborne International Response Team have joined forces to study the use of small unmanned aircraft systems by public safety and emergency response organizations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
A U.S. Air Force A-10 is returning to service more than three years after it was severely damaged during an inflight emergency and belly landing in Michigan, after an extensive rebuild that required remanufacturing components of the attack jet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said President Joe Biden was “positive” toward the possible sale of new F-16s and upgrades to existing aircraft after the two leaders met over the weekend, as U.S. and Turkish officials separately meet on military cooperation after Turkey was kicked out of the F-35 program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Boeing delivered the first KC-46A refueling tanker to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force on Oct. 28, marking the first international delivery for the program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Leduc won Aviation Week’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 but had to wait a year to accept it because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Before stepping down as Lockheed Martin CEO in mid-2020, Hewson earned a reputation as one of the most accomplished U.S. chief executives.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
AW169 software updates boost engine performance while aerodynamic changes adjust flight handling.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force on Oct. 29 selected GE Aviation to power the F-15EX fleet with the award of an almost $1.6 billion contact.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force has established a detachment to develop training methods and standards for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Multidisciplinary design optimization lets engineers spend less time on detailed design and more time considering system requirements.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
A video of a twin-seat variant of the Chengdu J-20 “Mighty Dragon” stealth fighter has emerged on the internet, suggesting China has developed the world’s first
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
F-35 Engine Shortage Easing; Operational test for F-15EX; Rivet Joint’s new life extension; Japan joins flight training school in Italy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Pratt & Whitney will start altitude tests on its experimental XA101 engine in early 2022, though the CEO of parent company Raytheon Technologies warns it would be a difficult and expensive effort to install it on F-35As as some lawmakers are calling for and the U.S. Air Force is exploring.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A Boeing F-15EX completed the first operational test mission with F-15Cs and F-15Es at Nellis AFB, Nevada, the U.S. Air Force said on Oct. 26.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Australia’s New South Wales Police Force Aviation Command has commissioned three new Bell 429 helicopters as the unit transits into a Bell fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has started to claw back from an engine shortage in its F-35 fleet that has grounded dozens of the aircraft, as Pratt & Whitney and the service’s depot have changed some processes and sped up production.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Twenty years after winning the Joint Strike Fighter contract, Rick Rezabek still remembers a mistake Lockheed Martin made at the beginning of the design for the X-35.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Bell has begun handing over AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters to the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command in preparation for delivery to export customer Bahrain.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A breakthrough agreement fast-tracked approvals for F-35As and MQ-9Bs to the UAE, but finalizing those deals could still take years.
Dubai Airshow

By Tony Osborne
Norway’s defense materiel agency has signed a 3.95 billion krone ($470 million) contract to acquire an undisclosed number of the missiles.
Aircraft & Propulsion