Aviation Week & Space Technology

Rolls-Royce has appointed Tom Bell as president and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America. He also remains president of Rolls-Royce defense services. He succeeds Marion Blakey, who is retiring.

Industry knows the risk of being targets of retaliation in a global trade war are growing. To them, the only way to win is not to start a fight.

Air navigation service providers increasingly are becoming involved in drone traffic management and remote-tower operations.

French suppliers, such as Mecachrome and Daher, are striving to establish factories in the U.S., hoping to add U.S. OEMs to their customer base.

Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.

USAF is investing in enhancing the ground surveillance capability of the MQ-9, and may even add a more powerful, podded radar in the future.

Did Brexit slow European UCAV development?; Lockheed’s space fence scheduled for operations in 2019; Singapore keeps defense dollars steady and Japan interested in Phalanx weapons upgrade.

The array of nuclear weapons touted by Russian President Putin confirms the U.S. is losing its lead, but the Pentagon says deterrence will prevail.

Rivals’ progress makes it clear that, 60 years on, DARPA should not ease off on its task of preventing technological surprise, and creating its own.

A state oil company has given HNA’s Hainan Airlines Holding Co. Ltd. until March 16 to pay overdue fuel charges.

An Airbus-led consortium has developed tools to simultaneously streamline air traffic and make the life of airline operations centers easier.

Boeing Phantom Works rolled out the “T-1” tanking UAV prototype in November 2014, but kept under wraps until recently. Now, the covers have finally come off.

Embraer has the raised the technology and performance bars significantly with the E-Jet E2, but amid the improvements pilots will find much that is familiar. Photo: Embraer

Embraer is about to deliver the first Embraer 190-E2 to its launch operator Wideroe. Just prior to certification, reached at the end of February, Aviation Week was invited to fly the third prototype at Gaviao Peixoto and Sao Jose dos Campos. Evaluation pilot Tim Wuerfel tested the aircraft's maneuverability and the protections built into the new fly-by-wire system.

Bruce Whitman of Flight Safety International was awarded the Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award at Aviation Week's 61st annual Laureate Awards at the National Building Museum in Washington on March 1, 2018.

The U.S.’s planned development of a low-yield nuclear SLBM and SLCM punctuates a turning point in the long-running drive toward arms reduction as Putin also unveils new weapons meant to undermine Western missile defenses.

Intelsat is driving innovation in the way it transmits data to smaller and smaller terminals and in its business models.

A growing number of systems is available to counter small unmanned aircraft, but few if any are designed to repel an attack by a swarm of drones.

Qantas is shifting its attention to investing in its future fleet, but the carrier is remaining rigorous in its value analysis.

The General Dynamics’ purchase of CRSA confirms that larger scale matters in federal IT services.

The U.S. Air Force wants to lease commercial bandwidth to build an agile, resilient communications network for the modern battlefield.

DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.

Aiming to build a force of 180 fighters by 2024, Indonesia has ordered Su-35s and is looking for a possible Western combat aircraft contract.

Avic will probably not begin deliveries of its new turboprop before 2022. Fabrication of the first prototype has begun.

As new eVTOL concepts continue to emerge and others enter flight test, the mainstream helicopter industry is coming to terms with the prospects of an urban air mobility revolution.