Aviation Week & Space Technology

If the current fragile jetliner market worsens, the U.S. and other governments might feel pressure to reconsider their nonintervention.

Ask the Editors: There is room for both and overlap between both, and who will win where will play out over the next decade.

Listen in as CEO Francisco Gomes Neto gives his side of Embraer’s breakup with Boeing, what he thinks of finding new partners, and how he plans to steer the Brazilian aircraft company through the COVID-19 storm.

Stratospheric cell mast; Heaviside favors elegance; Pipistrel picks Honeywell; Volansi flies vaccines; Iris enables BVLOS.

A recovery to 2019 levels of profitability remains distant, but carriers believe they can stem daily losses in the medium-term future.

Ask the Editors: Three former NASA administrators agree the U.S. space program needs to use nuclear propulsion.

Plans for major technology demonstrators to shape next generation of single-aisle airliner firming up in Europe and U.S.

Samples from asteroid could reveal more about building blocks for life.

Under a flat budget, the Pentagon should increase competition, invest in soft power, reinvent conops and tap digital technologies.

Transonic Truss Braced Wing, electrified propulsion small-core turbofans and high-rate composites top NASA’s priorities

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

Readers write about Aviation Week webinars, hydrogen-powered aircraft, and Rolls-Royce’s future.

Taiwan cleared for missile sales; Bell starts attack helo parts production; Telesat, Lockheed team on SDA; more money for military intel.

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

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

Democrats Amy McGrath and Kim Mangone are challenging two of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell

The low-cost carrier is developing new markets at home. The industry returned to domestic activity levels months ago.

From Boom to Joby, aviation startups are turning to 3D printing to reduce time and cost required to field new products.

A detailed look at defense investments under a Trump or Biden administration.

Ask the Editors: A wave of consolidation in A&D has arrived due to COVID-19, the worst aerospace downturn since the dawn of the Jet Age.

Aviation Week editors honored more than two dozen 2020 Laureate Awards winners from around the globe in a virtual event.

The whole project has been deeply embarrassing for German engineering and infrastructure planning.

Future trainer could tutor pilots for European Future Combat Air System.

Faced with a rapidly growing Chinese Navy, the U.S. Army is seeking to adapt a land-based targeting system for a maritime strike role.

While public investors avoid A&D as effects of COVID-19 ripple across industry, private equity is rushing in.