Aviation Week & Space Technology

Uber will have to start urban flight operations with the batteries it has, not the ones it wants. But it sees several prospects for progress on the battery performance front.

The Cessna Denali poses the first challenge to the Pilatus PC-12 in a quarter century. The leader has 1,500+ aircraft head start.

The Trump administration could learn about defense-industrial policy from the Eisenhower administration’s 1953 review of U.S. strategy toward the Soviet Union.

Croatia hunting for newer-model fighters; Romania boosts defense spending; U.S. tests nuclear-capable ICBM, and Switzerland seeks F-18 upgrades.

Uber and others believe electric propulsion has reached the stage where it can enable small, efficient, short-range vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

With the space industry entering a new era of innovation and advancement—driven in no small part by money and energy from the private sector—Aviation Week is establishing a new bureau, our 17th, at Cape Canaveral.

A slew of recent CEO comments confirm how classified or “black budget” work is gaining significance for industry’s bottom line.

China Airlines is expanding codesharing, integrating with subsidiaries and exploiting the range of new widebody aircraft.

Turbulence inside ride-hailing giant Uber has yet to derail its plans to launch urban air transport services in the early 2020s. And it is no longer alone in that ambition.

UTRC Ireland reports progress on a program to develop and integrate model-based design tools for aircraft that will cut design times, help avoid integration issues during development, and ensure aircraft enter service efficiently and with high reliability.

Don’t pop the champagne yet, but increasingly CEOs and financial analysts around the business aviation manufacturing sector say they think things have bottomed.

Since rival V Air closed in 2016, Tigerair Taiwan has been the only Taiwanese budget airline, but it certainly does not lack low-cost competition.

Design for stealth has reshaped combat aircraft, evolving from flat facets to smooth curves. And another change is coming with the need to defeat a wider range of threats.

The Air Force Research Laboratory could soon decide which contract will supply the high-power laser for flight testing on a Boeing F-15.

Air France-KLM and IAG could point to a number of strategies that seem to be working, with lower fares a key theme.

Airbus Vahana takes shape; ARCA to fly aerospike; Germany’s quiet rotor; BVLOS goes commercial; India’s next RLV.

Lower A380 production and continued challenges ramping up the A320neo put Airbus under pressure in the first half of 2017, while the road looked smoother for Boeing.

Testing reveals consumer drones could cause more damage than bird strikes in aerial collisions.

The U.S. aerospace industry continues to shed workers, but it is skill sets that should have leaders most worried.

Efforts are underway to develop commercial markets for large unmanned aircraft of sizes well beyond the small drones now permitted.

The world’s largest general aviation extravagance—and the de facto U.S. air show—again proved successful, with a dynamic mix of old and new technologies and players taking the stage

Desktop Metals raises $115 million to back its bid to revolutionize additive manufacturing with a metal 3D-printing process it says is 100 times faster and 20 times cheaper than laser-based processes.

In this week's Washington Outlook: Senator advocates first building sensor layer, Senate appropriators back NextGen ATM and NASA’s Mars-bound rocket and a look at what’s ahead for spending bills.

Iran’s most advanced weaponized UAV is in the midst of full production and has been deployed for domestic and international missions.

Frontier Airlines will add 21 destinations and 85 new routes while strengthening its Denver service, making its brand in reach for 90% of Americans.