Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Ampaire’s electric testbed; Airbus demos urban air; Boeing’s shape-shifting SST; Bye secures investment; Flytrex drone delivery expands.
Aerospace

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

By Irene Klotz
Thirty-four new pieces of debris were recently added to the growing junk heap in Earth orbit.
Space

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
Successful wind tunnel tests could potentially clear the concept for further test and development as a full-scale X-plane.
Aerospace

By Lee Hudson, Steve Trimble
Newly released documents reveal the timing, depth and risks posed by the Pentagon’s broad hypersonic weapons plan.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship
Space

By Bradley Perrett
Greater demands on engine performance have ranked high among the challenges for China’s Chang’e 4 lunar mission.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Compared with a coronagraph, a starshade has a wider field of view and can allow the telescope to see planets closer to their star.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Russia’s new ground-based satellite-zapping system; Indonesia buys Bell, Airbus helos; India’s Tejas edges closer to full operations; Staff changes at Pentagon.
Defense

By Lee Hudson, Steve Trimble
The commander-in-chief’s attacks put the USS Gerald R. Ford’s subsystem in the spotlight.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Skepticism in the supply chain lingers over going beyond new production targets for making airliners already outlined for 2019.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce-led team wants to beat 210-mph record set by Siemens-modified Extra 330 in 2017.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau
The former Southwest CEO was a master of employee relations and an important innovator.
Air Transport

Brian M. Argrow
If the U.S. is to retain leadership in hypersonics, a sustained increase in university research programs is critical.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
UK will strengthen drone laws later this year with new register and online safety test.
Air Transport

Tim Wuerfel
More automation does not necessarily lead to more safety; the role of pilots needs to be reconsidered.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
With more than five decades of ducted fan and tiltrotor experience, Bell is combining new technology with old concepts to take on emerging air taxi revolution.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Electric speed bid; electrification road map; Boom builds funds; UAM market forecast; other technology news.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus is making the most of new communications technologies to help carriers share safety information.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris, Steve Trimble
General Atomics accelerates MQ-9B flight-test progress as UK issues airworthiness requirements for Protector RG1 variant.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The Avangard test highlights the looming threat facing NATO from Russian hypersonic weaponry.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The manufacturer is preparing to begin series production in 2019. A separate requirement for attack helicopters has been deferred.
Defense

By Michael Bruno, Joe Anselmo
From reshaping the supply chain to big wins in defense, his actions have reverberated across the industry.
Air Transport

By William Garvey
After recently acquiring WACO Aircraft, the president of the company plans to double worker headcount and production rate of its biplanes.
Business Aviation