United Airlines has become launch customer for a newly certified ‘hot-and-high’ performance improvement package developed by Embraer for the E175 airliner.

Depending on airlines' hedging positions, dramatic cost reductions are helping some carriers make windfall profits. Lower fuel prices are increasingly influencing airline fleet planning, too. Here are some of the fleet types that are affected.

Airlines are retaining some aircraft types longer thanks to the drop in oil prices that make this a financially viable decision.

The choice is effectively between market potential maximization and operating economics: A single-aisle jet offers lower production and operating costs but would miss much of the replacement market; a twin-aisle could stimulate new demand but would be more expensive to produce and operate.

Five years before Concorde was introduced into service, an advanced design team was already working on a second-generation transport that would be defined by 1975 and enter service in 1980-85.

A March 23, 1964 special report in Aviation Week & Space Technology takes a detailed look at Lockheed Aircraft Corp's CL-823 supersonic transport configuration.

The money, talent and business model could be found to break the Airbus and Boeing duopoly, but the vision may prove more elusive.

NASA researchers, together with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are planning demonstrations of an autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capable of planning, launching, navigating and refueling itself.