Aircraft & Propulsion

Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab has completed the first flight of its prototype E-model Gripen fighter jet.

Airbus negotiating with A400M customers to ease the burden of the program’s financial penalties.

As the Pentagon struggles to determine what’s behind a spike in hypoxia-like cockpit incidents across several U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force fleets, Cobham believes it may have a groundbreaking new method of pinpointing the root cause.

One Raptor pilot details the crucial role the stealth fighter played in deconflicting operations in the weeks after U.S. airstrikes on Shayrat.

Dennis Muilenburg on the New Midsize Airplane, 777X, Bombardier, Trump, Iran, China, Blue Origin and his “audacious” aftermarket plan.

The U.S. Navy has opted to fund Boeing’s upgraded F/A-18 Super Hornet “Block III” and plans to begin fielding the capability in fiscal 2019.

Lockheed Martin’s U-2 spy plane made its debut at the Northern Edge joint training exercise last month, demonstrating a new capability nicknamed the “Einstein Box.”

The secretary of the U.S. Air Force has stressed that the OA-X light attack initiative “is not a procurement, it’s an experiment.”

The engine maker is framing its F135 upgrade effort as the first step in a long-term plan for fighter propulsion based on adaptive technology.

The country’s push toward manned/unmanned teaming in the air domain is a response to the extreme cost of modern warplanes and advances in autonomous technology.

The U.S. Navy is asking Congress directly to fund a boost in Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin F-35 procurement to address the strike fighter shortfall.

The German air force is seriously interested in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II as the central node of its future networked strike complex, which includes unmanned surrogates.

Boeing’s “iterative innovation” strategy pays off as it secures a new future for the Eagle, Super Hornet and Growler programs against the odds.

U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, call sign Crash, describes what it was like to fly the Raptor on its very first combat mission.

By 2023, Turkey’s centenary, President Tayyip Edogan wants the nation’s aerospace industry to fly its indigenous TF-X fighter. But the new fighter is just the one example, as Turkey is developing a trainer/light attack aircraft, UAVs, missiles, helicopters and a gallium-nitride-based AESA radar.

Boeing has cautioned the U.S. Navy against getting locked into another 20-year aircraft development program as it reaches for F/A-XX, the service’s next carrier warplane.

Leanne Caret, president of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, discusses the revival of fighter programs, the state of play on the KC-46A tanker, the importance of T-X and more.

The U.S. Air Force’s F-35A will fly its first aerial demonstration at the Paris Air Show this year, with Lockheed Martin pilots performing aerobatics in the skies above Le Bourget Airport.

Marine Corps is touting the stealthy JSF in training exercises in Japan, South Korea, and Alaska.

Nineteen months after the U.S. Air Force banned lightweight pilots from flying the F-35, the service is lifting the restriction.

Turkey’s fighter will be twin-engine, but the choice of a powerplant has not yet been made.

Leonardo DRS’s Bill Lynn on the company’s prospects for trainer success, the U.S. defense budget and persistent questions about the sale of the company.

Special Operations Command looks to Future Vertical Lift to help win on the battlefield of 2030.

The Swedish Air Force has little interest in any of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation T-X trainer candidates except the Boeing/Saab offer, but is not ready to rule them in or out as potential SK 60 replacements.

Congress boosted funding for new aircraft by 15%, but overall defense received a meager increase.