Aviation Week editors break down some of the highlights at this year’s Air Force Association symposium – from the Air Forces plans to pursue a weaponized KC-Z tanker.
Double-bubble D8, Blended Wing Body, Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, Hybrid Wing Body and a small-airliner-size BWB – the configurations NASA is considering for planned ultra-efficient subsonic transport demonstrators.
In this week’s Washington Outlook, American Airlines and others continue fight to overhaul the FAA; U.S. needs to move faster to counter Chinese and Russian space prowess; rethinking Syrian conflict; Boeing can sell aircraft to Iran.
Development of a deep-space propulsion system that uses hydrogen superheated by a nuclear fission reaction for highly efficient in-space propulsion could move rapidly with enough funding and industry cooperation, according to Todd May, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
Bell Helicopter has unveiled the V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor it is proposing for an emerging U.S. Marine Corps requirement for a ship-based expeditionary endurance unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
A Philippine order for Russian or Chinese armed helicopters is looking likely, following President Rodrigo Duterte’s Sept. 13 statement that Manila would turn to those countries for weapons.
In this week’s roundup, a South Korean company agrees to market Israeli-made loitering munitions in the Pacific nation; the Argentinian air force buys a handful of training aircraft; BAE Systems advances microchip technology; and Orbital ATK shows off an extended-range version of the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile.
Deals for more F-15s and F/A-18s couldn’t come soon enough for Boeing’s fighter factory in St. Louis, which needs more orders to keep production humming into the 2020s.
The future "KC-Z" tanker could look very different than the large-bodied, commercially derived tankers of today; it could be stealthy, carry missile-shooting lasers, and even fly autonomously.
The Senate committee that authorizes NASA spending adopted bipartisan language on Sept. 21 that would require the next president to maintain the status quo on major NASA exploration programs, at least initially.
India is working to develop a second indigenous aircraft carrier, IAC-2, as it prepares to induct the first one in the next two years, according to a senior Indian navy official.
A pair of longtime lunar exploration advocates say NASA can set up a permanent water-mining base at one of the Moon’s poles with an innovative adaptation of the agency’s planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) and advanced commercial crew vehicles.
In record turnaround time, the F-35 program office and Lockheed Martin will begin fixing the 15 F-35 aircraft that were grounded due to crumbling insulation inside the fuel tanks as soon as next week.
