Latest Commercial Aviation Content by Aviation Week & Space Technology
Jul 11, 2016
An Aviation Week/Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey of airlines reveals how technologically challenging it would be for a manufacturer to launch a middle-market aircraft.
Jul 11, 2016
Rolls-Royce has a lot riding on key first flights of its XWB-87 engine on the A350-1000 and its Trent 1000 TEN on the 787.
Jul 11, 2016
Airbus flies electric ECS; Safran’s high power-density diesel; can digital chemistry grow UAVs?; IAI’s Bigger Role in Clean Sky 2; ultracapacitor energy storage for cargo airship.
Jul 08, 2016
Proof-of-concept trials worldwide and technology developments should lead to wide-scale biometric identification verification for simplified travel beyond 2020.
Jul 08, 2016
Aviation Week editors predict what we’ll see and hear at next week’s U.K. airshow, including the dreaded “B” word.
Jul 08, 2016
EcoDemonstrator plan builds on airframers' earlier cooperative agreement encompassing biofuel research initiative.
Jul 08, 2016
ATC reform left for later; House bill aims to block sale of Boeing aircraft to Iran; lawmakers ask about sending U.S. satellites to orbit on Indian rockets.
Jul 07, 2016
The condensed interview: Ari Kokko, logistics manager at Finnair’s maintenance, repair and overhaul division Finnair Technical Services, on developing an RFID system with SR Technics.