A panoply of distinctive aircraft grace the labels of various wines from Sonoma, California, family-owned vineyard now poised to shutter its decades-old business.
The United Launch Alliance is close to choosing an engine for its Vulcan rocket between Blue Origin’s BE-4 and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR-1. Meanwhile Orbital ATK is pitching a solid rocket motor for the Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle launch system. Aviation Week editors have the details.
In this week's Washington Outlook: Jeff Immelt urges business leaders not to count on government help, ATC reform may not tax GA operators, the NRO seeks more willingness to accept risk and the Air Force and FAA to start space traffic management pilot program.
Germany’s battle of the heavy-lift helicopters, India to buy 100 Barak-1 missiles while it looks to replace the type, Malaysia not ready to commit to Dassault Rafale fighters, and Aero Vodochody gets back into the light fighter game.
Air Force not committing to F-15C EW upgrade; Chile to receive Black Hawks; Intel chief watching for new ASAT weapons, and Boeing to deliver C-17 to India.
Startup Zunum Aero’s plans for a hybrid-electric 10-50-seat regional aircraft family attract venture-capital investment from Boeing’s new HorizonX innovation arm and JetBlue Technology Ventures.
To best stymie security threats to the transportation sector, regulatory bodies, airlines and manufacturers are increasingly sharing key digital information.
Introduction of Japan’s new airlifter into service is greatly boosting capacity, because the type is replacing the much smaller C-1. A proposed civil version has been dropped, however.
"Robust," "effective" and "versatile" are three words that come to our test pilot’s mind after two sorties in this new-generation counterinsurgency aircraft.
No matter how vital space power becomes to the U.S., if it is relegated to a supporting role inside the Air Force, or any other service or agency, it will always receive short shrift.
Aurora Flight Sciences builds confidence in its XV-24A LightningStrike high-speed VTOL design with subscale flights showing the configuration can convert between vertical and forward flight.
Flight-critical systems are purposefully protected from hackers, but if someone does get through the many layers of security, pilots may want to know about it in their tactical response to an anomaly.
Aviation Week has won top honors in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.
The heart of Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan engine—the power gearbox—is nearing full-scale power trials, the most critical phase to date in Rolls’s push toward future civil powerplants.
