As technologies mature toward more expensive demonstrations, and budget pressures tighten, NASA is restructuring its aeronautics program in a bid to sustain the momentum behind research into environmentally efficient aircraft. Faced with a cut in its fiscal 2013 aeronautics budget, the agency is to reduce its hypersonics research, but maintain spending on technologies for subsonic and supersonic fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft.

The “King of Good Times” is moving from bad to worse. India's cash-strapped privately-owned Kingfisher Airlines is caught in severe financial turbulence and is gasping for additional bank funding or a government bailout to stay afloat.

IFE with fewer components and more entertainment value hits the market.

Russia mulls blocking overflights by European carriers.

Airlines in traditionally high-cost Scandinavia are watching their business models collapse and are struggling to find the right answers. Only Norwegian Air Shuttle, the fast-growing low-cost carrier, is still profitable.

William Greenwalt has joined the Aerospace Industries Association, Arlington, Va., as VP-acquisition policy. He was deputy director for surveys and investigations of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.

Taxiing to and from the runway on engine power may soon be a thing of the past.

Airbus is taking another run at building up its cargo aircraft portfolio, hoping the launch of the A330 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion will not suffer the same fate as other efforts. Airbus has long tried to build up its freighter offerings, an area in which it has trailed Boeing. But its A380 freighter and A320/A321P2F efforts stalled for disparate reasons.