Aviation Week & Space Technology

Space Development Agency answers critics and questions in industry day event.

A multinational European industry and academic team is in the final preparations for test runs of the first fully superconducting motor prototype.

Pacific island airlines prepare for growth phase as new aircraft types allow them to extend their range and target new tourist sources.

Boeing 737 MAX operators are betting on late-2019 return-to-service approvals.

Leveraging Europe’s long-running Lapcat program, Stratofly is taking sustainable hypersonic commercial transport research to the next level.

Still wanting 20 more fighters, the air force’s interest has drifted away from a repeat order for F-35As.

Equipment development, acquisition and maintenance—which traditionally has taken about a third of Chinese defense spending—has shot above 40%.

Feeling mounting threats against its space assets, French government launches dedicated defense effort.

XTI picks Catalyst; Continental joins VerdeGo; Vision-assisted autoland; Archinaut makes in space; Sunlight powers LightSail 2

As electric technology advances, carriers partner with industry to explore its viability and likely effects on the airline business.

At the Royal International Air Tattoo, the magnitude of the UK’s Royal Air Force modernization – from space to hypersonics and fighter jets, comes into sharp focus.

The annual Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture focuses on innovation and battery powered aircraft. Listen as Fred George and Molly McMillin report live from Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

The future took the captain’s seat at the world’s largest aviation gathering, the annual Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Collaboration, commercial metrics and more accountability can ensure the military’s critical weapons are available when needed.

Are “HACM” and “HCCW” the missing links in the U.S. hypersonic weapons portfolio?

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

Mosquito aims to bolster air combat mass with a UCAV one-tenth the cost of a manned fighter.

Tempest technology research is generating firsts for Europe and the world.

Upcoming aviation and aerospace industry events and Aviation Week Network events.

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

Greece has signed up to China’s infrastructure-development program. Juneyao wants to fly to Athens.

Readers discuss parachute roles for urban air mobility, reasons for DC-10 program's demise, deep space exploration and CRJ sales. Also Moon relic map credits.

Hemisphere termination puts hold on Safran’s business jet market ambitions, despite positive results from recent tests of upgraded Silvercrest compressor.

After the test of its Ground-based Midcourse Defense System, components of the upgraded Redesigned Kill Vehicle may be slowing upgrades to new interceptors.

Chris Kraft wrote the book on human spaceflight operations; few were better students than Bill Gerstenmaier.