Aviation Week & Space Technology

The jury is still out on which business model and network architecture could thrive in the satellite telecommunications market in the near future.

Deal would put Northrop Grumman back in the human spaceflight business.

Chinese pilots previously had to have remarkable eyesight and could not be too short. Now standards have been relaxed.

Only NASA’s Juno spacecraft remains in orbit around a planet beyond Mars, and its days also are numbered.

Stopgap measures such as bonuses must give way to longer-term sustainable strategies to shore up the pilot pipeline. Photo credit: Boeing

Striker 2 helmet could bring augmented reality into the Typhoon cockpit.

The French engine-maker says turbofan improvements will continue while parallel studies of hybrid and all-electric propulsion studies ramp up.

Watch as Aviation Week's Lara Seligman joins Thunderbird No. 7 Lt. Col. Kevin Walsh, a career F-16 pilot, as he runs through the Thunderbirds’ best-known maneuvers one by one in the skies over the eastern U.S.

ATRs new marketing efforts are paying off with firm orders in regions where it was previously unsuccessful.

LeoLabs teams with Planet; Swiss demo U-space; fuel cell powers multicopter drone.

The U.S. is ignoring China’s role on the peninsula at its own peril.

U.S. Air Force may consider survivability when evaluating special missions platforms, which could hurt the chances of commercial and business jet derivatives.

Richard Branson’s sale of 31% of his Virgin Atlantic stake is a sign of the times in commercial aviation.

Aviation Week editors delve into the C Series price dumping battle and opine on whether there is a better way for the industry to settle its differences

The race to secure new STEM talent is now one of the top workforce concerns of industry, and it should be for investors and shareholders, too.

It is too easy to find the wiggle room in much of the regulations that govern Europe’s airline sector. Tighter rules should be enacted to keep the playing field level for all carriers.

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The Canadian and UK governments have stepped up pressure on Boeing, but the U.S. manufacturer is not backing down from its trade dispute with Bombardier over the price of C Series airliners sold to Delta Air Lines.

In this week's Washington Outlook: Skies in the U.S. are safe but slow, and an ongoing debate over how to secure the borders.

Aerospace and defense is a worthwhile industry to work in, but companies need to sell that to workers with many options.

Boeing, Leonardo DRS and Lockheed are the final contenders for the Air Force’s $16 billion T-X competition, ahead of a down-select this fall.

Aerospace companies compare well in incentives and benefits with tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple, according to survey respondents. Photo credit: Boeing

The Raider’s hard landing is blamed on a flight-control software issue, not coaxial rigid-rotor technology, Sikorsky obtains backing to finish the demonstration.

Canada’s potential purchase of F/A-18s receives U.S. approval; Turkey advances S-400 deal with Russia; Bahrain seeks F-16 Viper upgrade, and Indonesia will upgrade its F-16 fleet.

Air Force Lt. Col. Jeremy Renken’s downing of an armed UAV over Syria in June signaled pro-regime forces that the U.S. will not fail to act in self defense.