With a little help from the U.S. Congress and the potential for international orders, Boeing is bullish about prospects for its international fighters.
Dassault Aviation’s 6,450-nm-range tri-jet flagship shows off its maneuverability during a flying display with project test pilots Eric Gérard and Hervé Laverne at the controls.
Ukrainian manufacturer Antonov is expected to announce a new military freighter at the Paris Air Show this week – albeit one which is probably related to an existing and popular design.
A trainer doesn’t have to be the fastest, biggest or stealthiest aircraft ever, just predictable, reliable and economical. Air forces nevertheless have a long history of getting trainer programs wrong.
GE Aviation has built seven new factories in the last seven years, and is contemplating an eighth as it heads toward record production of the CFM56 next year.
The rivalry between Airbus and Boeing slipped the surly bonds of Earth in March when the American company launched its first two all-electric satellites.
Fernando Alonso was working to bring the company’s flagship A400M airlifter project back on schedule. But the loss of aircraft MSN23 in Seville, Spain, on May 9 with the loss of four lives has created additional complications and delay as Spanish authorities conduct their investigation.
Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders provided a wide-ranging outlook on the company’s businesses during a meeting in Toulouse with AW&ST managing editor Jens Flottau and Paris bureau chief Amy Svitak.
Parker Aerospace has funded a scientific investigation into one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Will the disappearance of Amelia Earhart be scientifically explained at long last?
Coupling Rafael’s latest reconnaissance and targeting pods with scene-matching electro-optical-guided weapons enables air forces to tighten targeting cycles from days and hours to a few seconds.
Export customers for the F-35 are being pushed to commit to a multiyear buy, as soon as next year. But some are far from ready to do so, and the proposal represents a departure from U.S. procurement policy.
The French government reiterated its formal approval of the sale of state ownership in the Arianespace launch consortium to Airbus Safran Launchers, a joint venture set up to develop and produce Europe's next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle
Sierra Nevada is teaming up with Turkish engineering firm STM to restart production of the Dornier 328 turboprop and 328Jet regional airliners in Turkey.
After selling all eight Dornier 228s batch built in a new-generation configuration, RUAG Aviation (Chalet 120, Static A5, Hall 4 B77) is reconfiguring its supply chain to deliver a minimum of four and up to 12 of the 19-seat aircraft every year, beginning in 2016. And the MRO-specialist-turned-OEM is offering a range of gap-bridging solutions to ensure its product remains competitive on delivery timescale.
In the scramble to compete for a chance to build such cutting-edge constellations, established satellite makers accustomed to producing a handful of high-dollar spacecraft each year have already learned a few things from Silicon Valley
