Aircraft & Propulsion

If all options are exercised, work on the contract will last until Oct. 31, 2031.

The Air Force and Navy have defined requirements for a new fleet of tactical aircraft that defy capabilities of existing jet trainers.

The program now could enter a new phase of demonstrations with a single human controller assigned to launch and recover multiple X-61s from a C-130.

With an eye on Iran, the Middle East’s air forces are expanding and broadening the capabilities of their fighter fleets.

A year after the Abraham Accords, the Dubai Airshow offers the next venue to measure the strength of a new diplomatic partnership.

Skyborg is the tip of the iceberg in a multiservice push to bring autonomous control systems from laboratories to the battlefield.

U.S. Special Operations Command recently released a request for proposals for Armed Overwatch, with a production award expected in spring 2022.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

AW169 software updates boost engine performance while aerodynamic changes adjust flight handling.

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.

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

Multidisciplinary design optimization lets engineers spend less time on detailed design and more time considering system requirements.

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

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

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.

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.

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