Aviation Week & Space Technology

NASA is looking at ways to enable industry to collaborate in maturing technologies for the next narrowbody airliner.

Research is clearly aimed at taking an advanced digital antenna technology from ground applications to F-X and Tempest.

Ask the Editors: The S4 is an airplane that is also capable of vertical flight and therefore does not operate like a helicopter.

SDA director Derek Tournear joins Aviation Week editors on Check 6 to discuss how its system of space tracking and transport satellites will revolutionize the U.S. military and the challenges it will face along the way.

New testing shows that a 20-year-old concept can double the radiated power of future airborne early warning radars.

The answers to these questions will determine the segment’s shape and structure for the foreseeable future.

Now planned from 2021-23, the transition between the current Ariane 5 and its successor may be complex for Arianespace.

UK, U.S. F-35 commanders claim “seamless” integration in joint exercises on new British carrier.

NASA’s moral autonomy; Beyond FAA’s UAS IPP; X-57’s lift props; VoltAero picks Sonaca; Hill’s in-house turboshaft; Canadian AAM.

Draft minimum curriculum needs more emphasis on the MCAS and manual-trim scenarios, pilot groups tell the FAA.

Ask the Editors: Widespread, affordable testing is the key in the short-to-medium term.

Latest Roland Berger report highlights lack of dominant business model in nascent UAM market.

As new lockdowns threaten further drops in demand, airlines are hoping for a 2021 recovery.

Japan’s major airlines are drastically cutting back widebody fleets while also increasing their focus on medium-haul LCC subsidiaries.

The new U.S. Air Force chief of staff is finding out how difficult it will be shed older aircraft and make way for a modernized fleet

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

MQ-9Bs for Taiwan?; Collins’ $700 million ejection seat win; New carrier delivery strategy; and Air Force opens space structures lab.

POLITICAL BIAS? I am very disappointed in Aviation Week for spotlighting the challengers to Sen. Majority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell and House

Building common ground for space becomes NASA’s political mantra.

Listen as Aviation Week editors Joseph Anselmo, Sean Broderick, and Jens Flottau discuss Aviation Week's analysis of proprietary aircraft operational data showing the precipitous fall in utilization for many aircraft workhorses.

After 15 years of development, Karem’s Optimum Speed Tilt Rotor shows its potential on the test stand.

The likely return of the 737 MAX is adding to what many fear will be overcapacity as airline recovery stalls.

Seven years after the demise of the X-51 program, the Pentagon puts Boeing back in the running for hypersonic cruise missile programs.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.