Aviation Week & Space Technology

As digital technologies prove their worth, remote and hybrid towers gradually gain ground in Europe.

Three U.S. eVTOL vehicle developers sought for UAM Grand Challenge developmental test event in 2020.

The target market is freighter or passenger aircraft of the 2030s, and the engine is big enough for a 100-seater.

An agreement between Iridium and OneWeb is called a LEO industry first.

Polish aerospace cluster looking to attract more startups and R&D.

Backing for battery pack developer; Italian Eurofighters to launch satellites? France tests smallsat air launch; Drone Remote ID; Wing picks delivery partners.

Senate appropriators demand Air Force transition plan for adaptive engine technology.

The defense ministry has sought funding to modify one ship in fiscal 2020. It will need to be ready when F-35Bs arrive, probably in fiscal 2024.

Airbus has mostly ignored the new-built cargo aircraft market and instead slowly entered the conversion market, with rival Boeing in a much stronger position.

Poland has designed and produced thousands of indigenous-developed aircraft, could it do the same again?

Airborne Wireless Network and Aeronet Global once sought to be first to provide airliner-based broadband backbone services. What happened?

The U.S. Air Force’s premier fighter development program calls for disrupting the aerospace business models.

Aero closing in on closing L-39NG contracts for Senegal and LOM Praha.

Evaluation flights have been completed on an electric forward-facing window that will allow the pilot to fly the supersonic X-59 safely.

In an exclusive interview, Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper lays out a plan for a new way to make a “century series” of aircraft. Aviation Week editors Steve Trimble, Lee Hudson and Jen DiMascio process what that might mean for the military and current manufacturing base.

Infrastructure spending is a hot-button issue ahead of next year’s presidential election. The president may win the issue, for reasons important to A&D.

Increased Haneda access will play a key role in plans by the major Japanese airlines to accelerate international expansion in 2020.

From advanced turbofans to UAM avionics, Honeywell’s flying testbeds are gearing up for expansion.

The potential for the eVTOL ecosystem is likely to be $10-20 billion by 2030.

Honeywell’s Convair CV-580 flying testbed has had a career that included a key role in the evolution of industry’s most important safety avionics developments.

Pioneering space habitat developer cancels launch contracts for ISS, low Earth orbit passenger flights.

Earthquake damage at test range delays plans to demonstrate airborne launch and recovery of unmanned aircraft that would cooperate with manned platforms.

Flirtey reveals plans to begin commercial drone deliveries.

Embraer delivers the second, larger version of the E2 family to its first operator. Executives hope the low unit costs will allow it to break into new markets.

Netherlands to buy nine more F-35s; U.S. Marine’s UH/AH-1 replacement effort; Boeing assembling Japanese tanker; India tests first indigenous missile.