Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jens Flottau
Airbus has long invested in building its product portfolio. With that part now settled, it is looking more closely at processes and industrial optimization.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
The airframer, now an aerospace powerhouse, almost did not make it off the ground.

By Jen DiMascio
Greece receives refurbished P-3; GPS OCX drama continues; India launches new SAR satellite; and Sikorsky pitches CH-53K to Israel.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
U.S. Air Force is sitting pretty, with four U.S. companies vying for its space launch business beginning in 2020
Space

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Will plans to reduce capacity filter through to changes to fleet plans for squeezed European carriers?
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
The company shocked competitors and impressed the Air Force with a $9.2 billion bid for the next-generation trainer contract, but will it work?

By Michael Bruno
The MAX production slowdown will dampen deliveries of large commercial aircraft this year, but the ongoing supercycle is expected to power on a few more years.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
The need for faster, longer-range, more survivable rotorcraft is taking on increasing urgency within the service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
With unprecedented connectivity, airlines are challenged to prioritize the available bandwidth.
Connected Aerospace

By William Garvey
Family-owned Maule Aircraft is now supported by its fourth generation.
Business Aviation

By Lee Hudson
The service launches a prize challenge in search of payload technologies for a shipboard unmanned aircraft before nailing down an air vehicle design.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Hermeus Mach 5 concept plans to leverage existing high-speed materials and propulsion technology.
Aerospace

By Bill Carey
Air traffic management concepts are being floated for drones, spaceships and UAM vehicles.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
Advances in waveform-shifting and digital radars push the Navy to invest in EA-18G modernization.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Autonomy in an F-16; urban air traffic management; eVTOLs in Paris; Perlan aims for 90,000 ft.; personnel-rescue eVTOLs.
Aerospace

By Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau
An FAA-hosted gathering of regulators helped clarify the agency’s stance on Boeing 737 MAX changes but did not result in a timeline for return to service.
Air Transport

By Antoine Gelain
It is time to deliver on the promises made to investors and customers.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
KAI hopes to be a “super Tier 1” supplier, acting as a strategic partner to Airbus or Boeing, an integrator of aircraft sections.
Air Transport

By Irene Klotz
In mid-May 1969, only one hurdle remained before NASA would attempt to land astronauts on the Moon: a flight test.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
In Europe, manufacturers of business aircraft have to be creative to thrive in an often uncertain market.
Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau
Onex’s purchase of WestJet is the biggest private equity deal ever in the airline industry, and part of a potential dramatic turnaround for the once-shunned airline industry.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
CHC, PHI and now Bristow’s bankruptcies have led to questions about the sustainability of the industry in its current form.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
First Take

By Michael Bruno
Perhaps the aerospace industry should reconsider banking on Chinese growth—it might have to, and sooner than it thinks.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
More Tu-160M2 bombers for Russia, Swedes to keep Gripen C/Ds through the 2030s, India tests target drone, and the Pentagon considers options for AEHF replacement.
Defense