Aviation Week & Space Technology

The UK is preparing to advance to the next stage of its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft technology demonstrator project.

Pilots who have seen proposed material say it marks major philosophical shift.

A recent IATA survey has shown that passenger concerns are flying are still paramount. Aviation Week editors Sean Broderick, Bill Carey, Ben Goldstein and Jens Flottau discuss what airlines and airports can realistically do to protect passengers from being infected with COVID-19 and what the role of governments should be.

Ask the Editors: OEMs have shifted away from the underlying architectures of automobiles. Is a similar sea change in aviation due?

It is time for the military to relinquish control of commercial positioning, navigation and timing assets.

U.S. Military bureaucracy has neglected serious risks to the system and its users for decades.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.

UK government sees OneWeb acquisition as a steppingstone to sovereign global navigation system.

Here is a look at missions that have landed and attempted to land on Mars, as well as upcoming projects by the U.S., China and Europe.

Propulsion testbed prepared for flight in UK as work begins on first application.

UAE and China are looking for Mars debuts, joining eight spacecraft currently operating at the Red Planet.

Near-term acquisition programs are hardly altered. Most proposals will go ahead late in the 2020s or in the 2030s.

Most airlines in the region want to defer deliveries due this year, and early widebody retirements are also planned.

Part-cruise missile and part-unmanned aircraft system, Skyborg is set to redefine air combat operations.

Ask the Editors: The French government and France’s Big Four aerospace manufacturers partner up to infuse ailing suppliers with capital.

After missions to assess Mars’ suitability for life, a new rover will hunt for microfossils and cache them for return to Earth.

FAA’s ConOps for UAM; NASA seeks AAM partners; Europe’s clean R&D plan; Wisk eyes U.S. UAM launch; FAA certifying 12 drones.

The air transport industry welcomed a change in calculating emissions offsets; environmental campaigners are not convinced.

DARPA preparing to award contracts to design an X-plane concept around active flow control.

The Multinational Multirole Tanker and Transport Fleet narrows Europe’s aerial refueling gap, but more will be needed to address shortfalls.

Will the Senate boost a secret missile? House may back third launcher; New trainers for South Korea; and Embraer’s third KC-390.

Unstable approach set up fatal accident as pilots did not act on multiple cues.

This webinar took place July 1, 2020. As furloughs and layoffs have made the headlines, it’s the work behind the scenes — to get as many people back

Boeing defense chief talks about increased introspection, the impact of COVID-19 on the market and plans for the KC-46.

Collins Aerospace describes initiatives to safeguard aviation’s VHF-routed data link communications.