Boeing

By Brian Everstine
Boeing has received a $14.7 billion award for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor seekers, the latest in a series of major awards for critical munitions.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Sean Broderick
The FAA will not require Boeing to update 737 MAX flight management system (FMS) software as a prerequisite for certifying the 737-10 because of a software flaw.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris, Christine Boynton
Operators are avoiding 737 MAX flight management software with a known issue while the FAA weighs how to address the problem fleetwide.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
The Airbus A350F has started its flight-test campaign, and the Boeing 777-8F will soon follow. The two aircraft may benefit from substantial pent-up demand.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
Boeing’s victory caps a two-month series of U.S. Navy disclosures that transform the vision for the future carrier air wing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Seattle-area SPEEA professional and technical units have ratified new Boeing contracts, averting a strike that could have disrupted commercial production and new-aircraft certification.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Are the Boeing 777-8F and the Airbus A350F sufficient to cover future airline requirements? The answer is very likely: no. But both manufacturers have options.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Brian Everstine, Steve Trimble, Graham Warwick
Editors react to Boeing being announced as the winner of the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX contest ahead of Northrop Grumman and share their impressions of the next-generation tactical combat aircraft's design after a new rendering was released.
Check 6

By Graham Warwick
SAF projects achieve demonstration milestones; commercial plants planned using forest residues, renewable gas and Fischer-Tropsch technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris, Christine Boynton
Boeing continues to deliver 737 MAXs while it grapples with how to address an identified risk embedded in its latest flight management system (FMS) software that operators are refusing to use.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine, Steve Trimble
Boeing has won the race to develop the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX next-generation combat aircraft, beating Northrop Grumman.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
More than two years after the troubled crewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi, NASA and Boeing aim to return the spacecraft to flight with an uncrewed cargo run to the ISS in late December or January.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
Boeing has informed the FAA and airlines of an error in the 737's automated flight guidance software in the case of a landing missed approach.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble
An air-launched version of the hypersonic Castelion Blackbeard strike missile has reached the stage of at least captive carry testing on the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet.
Missile Defense & Weapons

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

By Guy Norris
Clean Aviation research programs will support Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce ducted engine ground tests as CFM wraps up its latest RISE dust ingestion trials for Open Fan.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Aviation Week Staff
BOEING INSITU Integrator gets GOGO GALILEO HDX antenna... SKYRYSE teams with BAE in Australia... IMPULSE SPACE to fly 2029 space domain awareness mission...
Aerospace_Daily_departments

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Navy tests MQ-20 autonomy mission planning as it prepares to develop and field future Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Boeing’s production bottlenecks are delaying deliveries, weakening cash-flow expectations and testing Wall Street’s patience again.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) will deploy a new kind of weapon against a fearsome enemy this winter: precipitation.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Guy Norris
Boeing has received U.S. approval to build an additional 35 777F freighters, exempting it from impending ICAO emissions regulations that would have prevented deliveries beyond 2027.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Daniel Williams
As MRO Asia-Pacific approaches, Flight Friday examines the region’s Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 fleets, comparing previous-generation aircraft with their latest variants.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Christine Boynton
Lufthansa Group firms options for 20 Boeing 737-10s, marking its first order for the type, which will gradually replace older Airbus A320 family aircraft across its portfolio of airlines.
Airlines & Lessors

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are finalizing the F-47 sixth-generation fighter design, with first flight on track to take place within two years as expected.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
BOEING gets $13.4b ceiling increase for KC-46... HONEYWELL AEROSPACE announces F-35 initiatives... AGILIS AIR announces early funding round...
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