Aviation Week & Space Technology

Following a successful demonstration of Dragon’s launch abort system, SpaceX is in the home stretch for a crewed flight test.

Automaker investments and flying prototypes are boosting the credibility of urban air mobility.

Most in industry and government see high-level, multinational efforts as a pipe dream, leaving airlines to fend for themselves.

Readers write about Boeing management and culture woes, cockpit system manual override, and nuclear power for remote military bases.

Israel’s precision weapons are sold all over the world, but struggled to break into world’s most lucrative market until recently

Iran’s acknowledgment that it shot down PS752 removes that doubt and painfully validates our 5.5 years of work on airspace risk awareness, but it also makes clear that this work was not enough to prevent a repeat tragedy. It is now evident that governments must play a more active role in preventing airlines from flying in conflict zones.

For lack of $14 million a year, premier infrared space telescope’s mission ends Jan. 30.

Welcoming the sixth and newest U.S. armed service the Space Force which has its first official member.

Progress in neuroscience gives researchers new leads to improve pilot performance in stressful conditions.

The production pause will yield carnage that Boeing and its Tier 1 partners must proactively manage to ensure the production ecosystem.

A new automation mode to improve strafing accuracy by F-16s also highlights a new approach to fielding new capabilities.

The country that popularized unmanned aircraft systems in modern warfare is at the forefront of a new strategic change.

A new era of high speed civil flight is beckoning but are commercial supersonic or even hypersonic aircraft justifiable amid rising concerns over aviation’s environmental impact? Guy Norris and Graham Warwick discuss this and other topics from AIAA’s annual SciTech forum where the global challenge of achieving sustainable aviation took center stage.

The last few years have gone off plan at Maxar Technologies, which is worth bearing in mind with more space-sector consolidation expected.

New documents reveal conscious efforts to streamline MAX certification, training, despite signs of risk.

New Space market driving changes in competitive balance of Israel’s defense industry.

Kopter is advancing development of its single-engine SH09 in Sicily.

New funding gives struggling Flybe some breathing space but the regional carrier must use it wisely.

Many features of the West’s futuristic vision for a distributed command and control network is already in service by the IDF.

Could it be the end of Bombardier Aviation?

Toyota buoys Joby; EHang outlines UAM thinking; HAV refines airship design; France studies Stratobus; CityAirbus flies untethered.

When airliners fail to communicate, fighters are launched—at a significant cost.

After entering administration in 2015, ATC Lasham’s aging MRO facility was taken over by 2Excel Engineering, which sought to re-energize the UK-based site. 2Excel Engineering co-founder and accountable manager Chris Norton talks to James Pozzi about the turnaround of its fortunes.

In observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the U.S., Aviation Daily will not publish an issue dated Jan. 21. The next issue will be dated

Horizon’s focus is on safety and simplicity to allow licensed private pilots to fly the Auto-Copter.