Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois
In Airbus’ history, the A380 played a key technological role, enabling the success of the A350 program and other aircraft upgrades.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson
The Navy begins prepping for its first F-35C aircraft carrier deployment.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Lured by the prospect of thousands of small satellites needing rides to orbit, private launchers line up.
Commercial Space

By Richard Aboulafia
Consider the two primary sources of NMA demand: upgauging from single-aisle routes and replacements for current single-aisle jets.
Program Management

By Guy Norris
NASA’s Low-Boom Research Demonstrator is not a prototype, but it may pave the way for a new civil supersonic generation.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Perhaps the gods of capitalism demanded one real sacrifice on the altar of total shareholder return. If so, let us hope Arconic satiates them.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Ordnance Survey’s mapping HAPS; French airship advances; UAV launch on the move; Siemens powers Sun Flyer; Offshore wind-energy kites.
Aerospace

By Sean Broderick
Eliminating direct access between runways seen as last resort at Toronto Pearson Airport.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force officials say F-15X plan poses no risk to F-35, but some lawmakers and experts fear the opposite.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Like the A380, Airbus’ other four-engine product has had difficulty finding customers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Elroy Air aims to extend the reach of express logistics by developing an unmanned cargo aircraft to connect smaller, more remote communities.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky’s helicopter charter subsidiary will operate S-76s for on-demand service Blade in return for data on urban air mobility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Garvey
Colorado-based company offers those seeking a meaningful final disposition of their loved one’s memory the lift of soaring birds, making them one with sky.
Business Aviation

By Steve Trimble
A new plan is forming to solve the plague of physiological episodes for military pilots by monitoring them like engines.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
2018 was marked by massive air traffic control delays. It looks like 2019 will not be better.
Air Transport

Bill LaPlante
The U.S. needs to modernize its NC3—the out-of-date and all-but-invisible glue that holds the nation’s nuclear deterrence together.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Hurdles to exporting U.S. UAVs, F-35 MRO contracts, India’s naval utility helicopter program progresses, and a joint missile defense exercise.
Defense

By Sean Broderick
Amazon’s 767 freighter fleet serves fulfillment centers, not end customers.
Air Transport

By Marhalim Abas
After 26 years, the Philippines is back in the air-surveillance business. Thailand and Indonesia are also buying ground-based radars.
Defense

By Angus Batey
This Anglo-Danish startup describes how production, architecture and propellant are working together to drive efficiency.
Space

By Kerry Reals
ICAO is upbeat about emissions-offsetting program, but some member-states worry that a few major players, like China, remain noncommittal.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
German concerns about defense exports could still rattle the FCAS project.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways is taking major steps in its investment strategy by buying a stake in Philippine Airlines and ordering new-generation narrowbodies from Boeing and Airbus.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
The Long March 3A-series program, busier than ever, has probably never performed so well. Replacement is planned, however.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Electric air race, reducing contrails, UK BVLOS UAV corridor, balloon-dropped UAV and the DLR’s integrated deicing.
Aerospace