Aircraft & Propulsion

The U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program has focused on future rotorcraft, but GA-ASI pursues the MQ-1C role for Advanced UAS.

Air Combat Command has dropped a plan to award a sole-source contract to Hillwood Aviation to supply Korea Aerospace Industries/Lockheed Martin T-50s for a five-year demonstration program, opting for a competition instead.

“Anybody with enough money can buy one.”

The demonstration phase of the KF-X radar program is over. A production-representative prototype is being built.

Startup Sabrewing Aircraft has postponed the public rollout of its Rhaegal unmanned cargo aircraft because of COVID-19 restrictions, but continues to work toward flying the hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype this year.

The troubled stories of the L-1011, C-5A and Lockheed from over 49 years ago and today’s headlines about the 737 MAX, KC-46 and Boeing are converging

U.S. Marine Corps joins Air Force’s Agility Prime program to accelerate commercial development of eVTOL air taxis.

Auditors reveal ongoing F-35 problems; Triton funding requested; a new C-17 scheduling app and Libya seeks Airbus helicopters.

The first U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Joint Strike Fighter squadron has received its “safe for flight” operations certification.

An electrical turbogenerator has been test fitted on a Yakovlev Yak-40 flying testbed at a Siberian research institute as part of a Russian project to demonstrate hybrid-electric propulsion for short- and medium-haul airliners.

Marcel Dassault hired Saget as a test pilot in 1955 and later appointed him chief test pilot.

Despite COVID-19 Britain is undertaking its biggest defense and foreign policy review since Cold War.

The U.S. Army awards Bell and Sikorsky risk-reduction contracts for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program.

A look at military requirements across the continent that may translate into orders over the next decade.

U.S. startup ThereCraft is developing an unmanned aircraft that can deliver urgent cargo to remote locations with the accuracy of a helicopter but without the need to land or use parachutes.

Japan is evaluating the rough-field characteristics of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2, exploring a capability for which the airlifter was not designed.

Ahead of the launch of his new book Harrier 809, aviation author and historian Rowland White joins Aviation Week’s London Bureau Chief Tony Osborne to discuss the story of Britain’s legendary jump jet and its role in the Falklands War.

German unions have stepped into the ongoing discussion over Germany’s plan to replace its Panavia Tornado fighter bomber fleet.

Original estimates for costs, schedules and quantities of the Lockheed Martin F-35 upon contract award in October 2001 proved highly unreliable over

The U.S. Marine Corps has opted to pursue an unmanned family-of-systems instead of having one large expensive air vehicle.

Organizers have postponed the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover and related events in Washington from May until September, given concerns related to COVID-19.

Raytheon is developing new air- and ground-launched versions of the Coyote Block II interceptor for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) as production ramps up to support surging U.S. Army demand and a newly approved export license.

Atlanta-based hypersonic aircraft developer Hermeus has completed scaled static and high-speed laboratory tests of a turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engine prototype up to Mach 5 and is working on near-term plans to test transition between engine modes.

Eighteen months after Boeing/Saab team won the T-X contract, the T-50 and M-346 continue to compete for USAF deals.

The French Air Force has issued a tender to lease up to 20 Airbus H225 twin-engine heavy helicopters to meet an urgent need to replace its aging Aerospatiale SA330 Puma helicopters.