Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 04, 2017
Guy Norris, Aviation Week Senior editor, talks to us from El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina where Airbus hopes to witness the Perlan Mission II achieve a new world altitude record.
Aug 31, 2017
Dubai-based Emirates and Australian carrier Qantas are seeking clearance to extend their partnership for another five years, with Qantas switching its London flights to operate via Singapore rather than Dubai.
Aug 31, 2017
New multirotor unmanned aircraft are coming onto the market. They combine vertical-takeoff-and-landing ease of use with longer flight times to increase productivity on commercial missions.
Aug 24, 2017
Willard Custer’s mid-20th century channel wing is back on the drawing board as a possible way to combine vertical flight with efficient cruise.
Aug 22, 2017
The technology for retrieving powered vehicles in forward flight has remained largely unexplored for decades, since experiments in the 1940s and ’50s.
Apr 06, 2017
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2017, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.
Mar 30, 2017
Citing the rapid progress in electric propulsion, Airbus is now working on a larger and more powerful aircraft, dubbed E-Fan X, that could fly within three years.
Mar 24, 2017
Hong Kong-based China Aircraft Leasing Group posted a 2016 net profit of 638.4 million Hong Kong dollars ($82.3 million), up 67.9% from the company’s HK$380.2 million net profit in 2015.
Mar 13, 2017
After 20 years in development, Leonardo is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.
Mar 09, 2017
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft deliveries for 2017, sorted by most-recent delivery date.
Mar 09, 2017
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2017, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.
Mar 09, 2017
Rockwell Collins and B/E Aerospace each said their respective shareholders had approved the companies’ merger.
Mar 03, 2017
Bell has made an unsolicited proposal to Australia to supply AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters in a program that would use funding earmarked for sustaining and buying smaller rotorcraft.