Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
NASA shows off Orion crew survival suit, prototype for lunar spacewalks.
Commercial Space

By P. Barry Butler
Equal representation is more than a goal: for the vitality and innovation of the industry, it's essential.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey, Helen Massy-Beresford, Adrian Schofield, Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
While commercial airlines, in general, are facing a pilot shortage worldwide, the situation varies greatly across regions.
Air Transport

By Antoine Gelain
We must question the norms we have become accustomed to and ultimately refine our individual behavior to spring back to a collectively sustainable state.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
A new type of miniature munition aims to change the way fighters protect themselves from incoming missiles
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris, Adrian Schofield, Jens Flottau
Qantas completes the first trial flight of its proposed “Project Sunrise” ultra-long-haul services, but is yet to decide to officially launch such routes.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
The AC312E is close to certification, AC332 detail design is almost done, and the AHL should soon be submitted for launch approval.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
With investments and joint studies, the automotive industry is dipping its toes in the emerging urban air mobility market.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
MBDA’s Anglo-French missile programs are benefitting from joint industry, academic technology research.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
Successfully run at Mach 5 temperatures, validating for the first time the capability of the novel heat exchanger design to operate at hypersonic flight conditions for atmospheric and space access applications.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The company is keeping the competitive wraps on the innards of its new micro power unit for smaller jets and turboprops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
UK eVTOL flies; Pop.Up no more; Leadership change at Aurora; Radar tracks LEO traffic; Boeing/Virgin hypersonic spaceplane.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
To send astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a lunar landing system needs to be ready in less than half the time it has taken to develop Commercial Crew vehicles.
Space

By Michael Bruno, Bill Carey
Honeywell Aerospace sees new leadership as its parent company looks to bring the unit’s business results and digital transformation to Honeywell International.
Air Transport

What aerospace companies can learn from the MAX crisis.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Four contenders are each offering different configurations for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program. A fifth remains under wraps.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
New long-range weapons in development by the Army overtake roles now assumed by the U.S. Air Force combat fleet.
Air Dominance

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Army expands next tactical missile’s range; what an FVL program may cost; KAI begins building KF-X prototype; France and Germany to sign FCAS deal.
Defense and Space

By Guy Norris
If battery power can be kept to a minimum, parallel hybrid-electric propulsion could provide significant fuel savings over short airline flights.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Off-the-shelf contenders emerge as rivals to a nearly decade-old centerline engine development program for the Army’s high-speed replacement for the UH-60.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
With Muilenburg’s demotion from chairman due to the MAX, a whole host of issues at Boeing now face a different cast of decision-makers and new conditions.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Certification testing specialist promotes the concept of commercially operated civil supersonic corridor for overland flight testing.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau
Orders for narrowbodies that can fly long-haul routes have recently been promising, but there are differing views on the potential impact for low-cost carriers.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
The four proposed types, of successively larger size, would have payloads of 0.3-100 metric tons. A fifth is intended to carry a rocket for space launch.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett, Tony Osborne
A naval version has appeared for the Avic Harbin helicopter, which appears to be longer than Sikorsky’s H-60.
Aircraft & Propulsion