By Rupa Haria, Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Lee Hudson, Thierry Dubois, Guy Norris, Tony Osborne
Aviation Week Network editors discuss highlights and lowlights at the Farnborough Airshow, including Britain’s future fighter vision: is it a storm in a teacup, or will it really happen?
The 100th Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has entered final assembly. The milestone aircraft will be delivered to the U.S. Navy this autumn.
The introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-35A Adir is the most significant generation leap for the IAF, but it is only part of a constant change, and of the air force’s preparation to meet future challenges
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Fred Cromer held out the possibility of the company’s Atmosphère cabin being adopted for its Q400 turboprops as he unveiled the new interior fit at the Farnborough Airshow.
Bombardier is confident that interiors supply-chain challenges that plagued its C Series program will not be an issue on its new CRJ Atmosphère cabin, even though the supplier, Zodiac Aerospace, is the same.
Pratt & Whitney is refining its proposed upgrade path for the F135 Joint Strike Fighter engine to include increased power and thermal management system capability.
Boeing Global Services, the MRO operation that’s now just over one year old, may well be ahead of its goal to notch US$50 billion in annual revenues in 10 years.
Training provider L3 Technologies is investing US$100 million in a new London Training Center near Gatwick Airport, which will open in the first quarter of 2019.
Bringing its five cabin-outfitting companies together under one administration, Chinese aerospace holding company CATIC chose Farnborough to announce the formation of AVIC Cabin Systems Company Limited.
The emergence of sophisticated spoofing and jamming technologies means weapon systems relying on satellite navigation like GPS and Galileo are asking for trouble.
The Israeli Air Force has tested an air-launched heavy rocket that was jointly developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and Israel Military Industries Systems.
Boeing is setting up an organization, Boeing NeXt, to leverage its research into autonomous flight and advanced propulsion and explore new transportation markets.
Delivery drones are imagined as helicopters dropping parcels on doorsteps. Proving this a misnomer are Bulgarian brothers Konstantin and Svilen Rangelov, with their quarter-scale model of Dronamics Black Swan.
Ground radar tapes: if there isn’t an accident, they serve no useful purpose. Wrong. Detailed analysis can yield a cornucopia of data, valuable to airports and airlines alike
Cyient, the Indian-headquartered global solutions provider has announced a new line of low-cost transmit-receive modules for X-band active, electronically scanned array radars that will for its home market and export.
One day after the announcement of Britain’s future combat air system effort, known as Tempest, U.S. Air Force officials plan to discuss the project this week with UK officials.
Norsk Titanium, an OEM-qualified supplier of aerospace-grade, additive-manufactured, structural titanium components, comes to Farnborough with a string of recent achievements.
Thales is endeavoring to demonstrate the reality of cybersecurity threats to airlines, at a time when connectivity is becoming standard, both in the cabin and the cockpit, at a fast pace.
As awareness of cyber vulnerability grows, Raytheon and its commercial cybersecurity division, Forcepoint, ensure they are practicing the simple, pragmatic basics.
