Aviation Week & Space Technology

After 18 years, three companies still have the Indian Army’s $5.8 billion contract for short-range air-defense systems in their sights.

Using ground stations and its SkyTerra 1 satellite, Ligado Networks believes it has the secret sauce for UAS beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations.

Germany gauges the critical size at €100 million annually, but France lacks that scale with 170 of GIFAS’s members at a combined turnover of a mere €3 billion.

Eurofighter continues hunt for orders, as production reaches 500-aircraft milestone.

Ideas fly at Airbus; Bell’s anti-torque fan; Europe researches detect-and-avoid; Canada advances drone deliveries; Verizon tests flying cell site.

Rupert Hogg will be responsible for implementing current CEO Ivan Chu’s transformation plan.

Trump pledges to appoint two reform-minded bank board members.

The Raytheon-made Tomahawk is still the Pentagon’s weapon of choice, but the U.S. Navy has long wanted to stop building new ones in favor of developing a next-generation cruise missile.

Hypersonic developments in China and Russia suggest the U.S. could easily lose its lead.

GE CEO Jeff Immelt's comments show leading aerospace companies are paying more than just lip service to the idea of electric propulsion.

United Flight 3411 debacle causes lasting damage to the airline.

The Army is crunching data to prove whether the Lakota is delivering a better aviator.

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

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.

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

Lakota is taking over the training role as the U.S. Army’s single-engine helicopters exit inventory.

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

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

CAE uses Grob G 120TPs and simulator motherships for an innovative Army training program.

Britain’s NATS expects 2008’s air travel record highs to be exceeded as demand for airspace increases.

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.

United Airlines’ response to a social media backlash from forcefully removing a passenger from an overbooked flight was weak.

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.

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.

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.