Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Michael Bruno
GE CEO Jeff Immelt's comments show leading aerospace companies are paying more than just lip service to the idea of electric propulsion.
Optimizing Engines Through the Lifecycle

United Flight 3411 debacle causes lasting damage to the airline.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
The Army is crunching data to prove whether the Lakota is delivering a better aviator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aurora Flight Sciences’ long-endurance Orion UAV is hoping to transition from tech demonstration to deployed military system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Jen DiMascio
Canada Halts CH-148 Flights, Leonardo beefs up the light-attack version of its M-346, Rostec plans to upgrade Russian Iskander missiles and India is developing lightweight torpedoes for export.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Skunk Works conducts flight tests to show how autonomous technology can enable unmanned aircraft to make manned fighters more effective in hostile environments.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Lakota is taking over the training role as the U.S. Army’s single-engine helicopters exit inventory.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

DARPA video of vertical takeoff and landing flight tests of Aurora Flight Sciences' subscale demonstrator for it XV-24A LightningStrike VTOL X-Plane.
Aerospace

With the biggest windows ever flown into space, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space tourism vehicle will provide an unprecedented view.
Space

By Tony Osborne
CAE uses Grob G 120TPs and simulator motherships for an innovative Army training program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s NATS expects 2008’s air travel record highs to be exceeded as demand for airspace increases.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Karen Walker
United’s CEO “made a horrific situation worse,” when he sent an email praising employees following Sunday’s incident. Listen in as our editors discuss the broader damage the incident has done to the U.S. airline industry.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
United Airlines’ response to a social media backlash from forcefully removing a passenger from an overbooked flight was weak.
Air Transport

Industry is seeing a dramatic shift in launch hardware as the spacefaring nations of the world prepare new rockets for peaceful and not-so-peaceful access to orbit and beyond.
Space

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The package of cabin updates should free up enough cabin floor space to increase seating from the average of 497 on A380s now in operation to 575 in four classes, substantially growing airline revenues.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Guy Norris
Although Rolls-Royce continues to dominate the high-thrust engine market for large-cabin, long-range business jets, the company’s position is under attack.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
A requirement to double the South Korean maritime patroller force is regarded as urgent as North Korea works on a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Marhalim Abas
Malaysia’s military and government have been talking about obtaining new maritime patrol aircraft for a decade.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
There may be an explanation for the thin atmosphere that seems to come and go from Ceres, the largest of the Solar System’s main belt asteroids.
Space

By Guy Norris
China’s first international hypersonics conference, held in Xiamen, amounted to a coming-out party for the nation’s swift progress in high speed flight research.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Could China’s hypersonic combined-cycle engine be the first to fly?
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett, Marhalim Abas
Wealthy and well-armed Singapore tends to not to shirk at paying for expensive military equipment. That factor could help the Poseidon as it assesses patroller options.
Defense

With the Trump administration still finding its way in space, NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are proposing concepts for Mars exploration.
Space

By Joe Anselmo
General Electric CEO sees a future with an ascendant China, big data, additive manufacturing and electric propulsion.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Hauling helium by airship, making the Airlander safer, Swiss drone delivers samples, E-volo unveils air taxi, Airbus going Voom in Brazil, NASA flies Prandtl wing.
Aerospace