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Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
How the Pentagon’s rush to field counters to Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons has been frustrated by compressed testing schedules.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jens Flottau
Boeing’s decision to defer development of a new narrowbody has profound and negative consequences for the industry.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems is exploring the use of exoskeletons, robotics and augmented reality to help maintenance of the UK’s combat aircraft fleets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sash Tusa
Two catalysts could push commercial engine-makers and airframers to speed up their development cycles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s military pilot-training pipeline is affecting even its much-vaunted F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Major oil and gas helicopter operators are eyeing the beginning of an industry growth spurt.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Island-connecting airship; Hydrogen cargo drone; Liquid hydrogen flight; and Medical drone network.
Emerging Technologies

By Jens Flottau
Franke has built a profitable empire in the airline industry. One of the reasons: he knows when to stop.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Airbus opts for an open architecture production system to allow for incremental changes, but integration is delayed at new subsidiaries.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
After buying Rafale fighters, A400Ms and C-130s, the defense minister eyes the purchase of F-15ID fighters and refurbished F-16s.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
HyImpulse, Isar Aerospace, Latitude, Maia Space, Orbex, PLD Space, RFA and Skyrora are forming a new ecosystem in space launchers.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
China’s Pterodactyl; Spirit’s secret production shop to open; U.S. GBSD under pressure; and Pacific military exercises pick up.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The long-awaited wave of European airline consolidation could finally be arriving.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Electric R44 milestone; Hamburg sustainability drive; Autonomous flight progress; eVTOLs for medical delivery; European detect-and-avoid.
Emerging Technologies

By Jen DiMascio
China flies new UAS; Aero Vodochody’s L-159 upgrade; MDA receives NGI software build; and Lockheed to make PRSM missiles in 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney questions GE’s XA100 proposal, arguing its F135 upgrade plan is the more practical path.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
While promising continued nuclear modernization, the White House aims to lower tensions by deemphasizing use of weapons.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Readers write about electric propulsion, airline and military pilot training and the NTSB’s staffing and funding.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Tony Osborne
NATO nations are heeding air defense lessons from Ukraine and preparing to invest in their ground-based surface-to-air defenses.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The San Diego company’s next uncrewed aircraft system could be powered by a radical new engine design of its own making.
Emerging Technologies