Airbus A380 doors, cargo airships, communications satellites­ –all are early applications of ultracapacitor energy storage. Next step, more-electric aircraft and directed-energy weapons?

Flying-wing rover for Titan; Airbus inspects by drone; tethered drones get bigger; Thales unveils Fulmar X; small helos to deliver packages?

Technology for the next-gen GEnx engine is focused on an array of hot-section parts made from lightweight ceramic matrix composites.

U.K. releases more government and industry money for commercial aerospace R&D projects. The post-Brexit future is unclear for EU-funded efforts.

​In 1916, Bill Boeing declared “we could build a better airplane” then went on to found The Boeing Company. Marcel Bloch (later Dassault) built his first propeller, symbolizing his entry into aerospace and forming what would become a French industry giant. In the same year, the ‘grandfather’ of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine was first published. One hundred years later, all three companies are here at the Farnborough Airshow, celebrating their milestones and looking to the future.

Airbus announces winners of the cargo-drone crowdsourcing design challenge run with Local Motors, calling the quality of entries “enormous and astounding” and the cocreation process “a breath of fresh air.”

In this webinar, airline managers and investors will learn best practices to maximize profit and value across airline functions with new technology aircraft investments:

Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne project has kick-started the creation of new, vertically integrated, rocket development and manufacturing capabilities in California.