The history of aviation has largely been about improving performance, and a thread running through that narrative has been industry efforts to reduce the cost of its expensive products.

Boeing revives Quiet Technology Demonstrator series to evaluate a new low-drag acoustic liner on a 737-7 testbed.

The top 10 countries account for 87% of world aerospace output, but will face a challenge by China as it tries to assert aerospace dominance.

While aircraft design over the decades has narrowed in on a set of configurations that worked better than others, how aircraft are manufactured continues to evolve in a bid to lower cost as well as improve performance. Here are some of the landmark aircraft over those decades.

Bye flies StratoAirNet; Singapore’s solar quadcopter; Boeing’s synchronized UAVs; Echodyne’s radar approved; UK BVLOS drone corridor.

Aircraft electrical propulsion startups are surging, foretelling possible changes for incumbents in many corners of industry.

The unmanned aircraft systems world is surely one of the most active sectors of aviation today and, arguably, in decades.

Helicopters have proved extraordinarily versatile and valuable across a wide range of missions, but even after the first brief pioneering flights their successful development involved decades of trial and error. Aviation Week takes a visual journey through that history.