Aviation Week & Space Technology

Record-breaking aeronaut Brian Jones is heading a British commercial HAPS startup with backing from Ordnance Survey.

Top aircraft manufacturers and providers tell current and would-be providers they must pay to play in the historic ramp-up of airliner production.

Technologies from F-22 and F-35 are added to F-16 to entice India. But the MiG-35, Su-35 or Rafale could minimize fleet fragmentation.

Targeting and reconnaissance pods extended the AMX's life as a cost-effective ground-attack and recce platform, but the aircraft will be retired in 2021.

Rapid movement of the Earth’s northern magnetic pole focuses attention on aviation’s reliance on magnetic navigation.

CityAirbus arriving; Siemens-powered regional; tackling icing dangers; a better Hero; electrifying rotorcraft.

Rolls’ composite fan and case evaluation marks the next step toward full-scale UltraFan flight-test demonstration.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Superbly engineered but environmentally and economically flawed, Concorde is a key source of lessons learned for today’s supersonic aircraft developers as the design icon marks its golden anniversary.

One of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties in 2014 is now a mechanical test engineering manager for Northrop Grumman’s James Webb Space Telescope program.

Too fast and too slow: lessons learned from two failed and very different supersonic transport ventures.

Hybrid system would improve autorotation safety and could increase payload capabilities.

Fixed engines, V-tails and distributed flight control systems will feature in Leonardo’s tiltrotor tech demonstrator.

Certification program steps up as Bell 525s go north for cold-weather testing.

China’s Insitu look-alike, HAL displays utility helo mockup; the U.S. Air Force’s space force, and Saab may sign on to UK fighter concept.

U.S. officials may decide to enforce the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act law inconsistently.

The proposal’s co-sponsor may be ill-informed on aviation’s benefits and accomplishments, but the industry needs to read the tea leaves and move fast.

Aerion sees low noise and emissions as key to the return of supersonic air transport.

Operators may expect improvements for the pilot, as well as reduced maintenance costs in aircraft systems.

Safety improvements are also leading to benefits in daily operations.

Company takes on Iridium, GlobalStar with cheap narrowband communications via nanosatellites.

The shaky financial conditions of some of India's largest airlines could complicate the nation's plans for rapidly growing its aviation sector.

With orders and deliveries on the up, helicopter OEMs are hoping the worst of the downturn is over.

Oil price slump has resulted in bankruptcies and helicopters being repurposed.

With the market for large geostationary satellites in a slump, heritage companies expand options for smallsat ride-shares.