Latest Commercial Aviation Content by Aviation Week & Space Technology
Jul 24, 2017
Airbus flies Sagitta; KARI lands tiltrotor; Cranfield leads digital aviation; TsAGI talks quiet supersonics; X-57 makes progress.
Jul 24, 2017
HNA’s Lucky Air appears to be building up in Chengdu as it moves into intercontinental operations. It will also be the HNA unit overseeing creation of a proposed budget carrier there.
Jul 21, 2017
A new autothrottle system enables pilots to fly to a certain torque level or airspeed for any portion of a flight, including takeoff and go-around. Aviation Week tests it out.
Jul 21, 2017
Post-Brexit, legacy airlines such as Air France-KLM, Lufthansa and the big three U.S. carriers may believe rolling back the clock would help them. It won’t.
Jul 21, 2017
An immediate reform will permit state shares to fall below 50% while keeping control. A later reform may merge two or all three of the largest Chinese airlines.
Jul 20, 2017
LCC-owned lessors are targeting third-party business as the next phase of their evolution.
Jul 20, 2017
Using the concept of a quiet STOL airliner as the target, German researchers are advancing the state of the art in aircraft high-lift systems in an effort to improve flexibility and reduce noise.
Jul 19, 2017
High-speed broadband is pretty much a standard feature in every living room or office, but until lately, not so much in the cabin of an airliner.