Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) has completed its first test flight following a battery system upgrade and ahead of restarting its solar-powered round-the-world flight attempt in April from Hawaii.
Airbus Helicopters is planning to demonstrate its H215 – the modernized variant of the Super Puma twin-engine heavy helicopter – to several U.S. government agencies.
The U.S. Navy is worried about the number of missiles it has in its collective quiver, Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, told the House Appropriations Committee.
After years of western rotary wing dominance, Russian helicopter manufacturers will take over the top slot as the single largest force in global sales over the next five years, the American Helicopter Society (AHS) predicts.
Bell Helicopter is believed to have attached the wings to the fuselage of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor, marking a key step toward completion of the company’s advanced-rotorcraft technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) program.
United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) is due to begin deliveries of Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to China this year, with engineers of the Chinese aeronautics industry possibly looking forward to the arrival of the aircraft just as much as the air force is.
While the debate continues to simmer about the cost and need for maintaining the nation’s aircraft fleet, the U.S Navy is moving ahead with the refueling complex overhaul (RCOH) of CVN 73 USS George Washington.
Almost two years after the Swiss populace voted down proposals to replace the country’s F-5 Tiger fighters with the Saab JAS-39 Gripen, Switzerland’s government has restarted evaluations for a future fighter.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has flown a version of the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Extended Range (ER) unmanned aircraft with a new wing to further increase endurance.
India has allocated 2.58 trillion rupees ($38.6 billion) to defense spending for its 2016-17 fiscal year, a marginal increase of 9.7% over last year’s revised estimates of 2.33 trillion rupees.
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) are in the very early stages of developing a futuristic vessel that soars like an aircraft across water at more than 100 kt.
The 2016 20 outstanding university students exhibit many of the same characteristics of those who launched the aerospace and defense industry a century ago: fearless enthusiasm, curiosity, engineering capability and concern about the world beyond themselves.
Able to fit on a fingertip, a microchip developed by Singapore’s NTU could revolutionize all-weather radar imaging for small unmanned aircraft and satellites.
Whether the deal would be good for the aerospace and defense (A&D) sector increasingly is being called into doubt, based on growing reactions from industry insiders.
Engineers at NASA continue to work toward developing the advanced Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) in time for the first Space Launch System (SLS) mission with a crew, and have until late this summer to decide if it can be done.
A Lockheed Martin official remains optimistic that the F-25 program is on track to begin initial operations on schedule in August or by December of this year.
Australia has decided on early replacement of the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter, apparently regarding the type as not worth the expense of modernization.
