Aviation Week & Space Technology

U.S. Air Force is exploring ways to use automation and artificial intelligence to ease the workload on Distributed Common Ground System intelligence gatherers.

Patriots, F-16s and attack helicopters are high on Romania’s defense list as Bucharest increases defense spendin

Inadvertently, decades-old restraints on weapons exports are helping China expand its foothold in the unmanned aircraft arena.

Regional aviation suffers from long-standing problems in China, so operators look forward to using larger aircraft.

From delivering critical medical supplies to warehouse inventory management, drones are slowly making inroads into the logistics business

Uncertainties about U.S. defense spending and Congressional actions are complicating planning for contractors.

Microsoft’s AI soars; Near Earth to land Vahana; designing for 24-hr. hover; space-hardened computers

The U.S. OEM giant has focused on bigger aircraft for decades, but sees new potential in the under-50-seat market.

GA-ASI’s jet-powered UAV has been a slow-seller, but that may be about to change.

Developing and demonstrating megawatt-class electric machines and power converters that are light enough and powerful enough for use in aircraft is a key step in enabling electric propulsion for commercial airliners.

Advanced human-machine interfaces and new technologies are set to make ATC workstations as jaw-dropping as the newest flight decks, if not more so.

Cyber Command unifies, increases industry outreach; San Francisco Airport incident prompts a new safety reminders; and preparing for a government shutdown.

Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. has a considerable engineering force, one that has repeatedly created complete aircraft.

Charter operators such as Monarch Airlines and Thomas Cook Airlines are ripping up the rule book, embracing scheduled flights and expanding in long-haul.

Willard Custer’s mid-20th century channel wing is back on the drawing board as a possible way to combine vertical flight with efficient cruise.

Major acquisitions can take an enormous amount of time to achieve. A UTC/Rockwell deal would be in the very early stages of discussion.

Israeli F-35s practice aerial refueling; Russian Helicopters starts work on Mi-38T transporters and produces first Mi-28UB dual-control helo; Cobham to supply KF-X weapons ejectors; Romania’s whopping artillery order.

Top service officials believe a light-attack fleet would provide an additional track to season new fighter pilots.

Carrier trials preceded by synthetic testing led by UK F-35 pilot community.

Faced with a flood of Earth imagery, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is considering commercial partnerships that go well beyond traditional defense procurements.

Surf Air, the California membership carrier, is expanding to Texas and Europe and is looking beyond those destinations.

Hawaiian’s Dunkerley proposes fresh approach to promote new entrant competition at increasingly congested airports around the world.

The service has identified the key technologies it needs for the F-22 follow-on, including a more powerful engine and increased stealth.

Completing development in four years might be easy enough if AIDC were just chasing the cockpit and avionics of the F-CK-1. But 80% of the structure is also changing and so are the aerodynamics.

The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.