Aviation Week & Space Technology

Successful wind tunnel tests could potentially clear the concept for further test and development as a full-scale X-plane.

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

Newly released documents reveal the timing, depth and risks posed by the Pentagon’s broad hypersonic weapons plan.

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

After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship

Greater demands on engine performance have ranked high among the challenges for China’s Chang’e 4 lunar mission.

Readers suggest ways to alleviate pilot shortage, note the F-15 Eagle would work well for Canada and discuss ways to end crew confusion in the cockpit.

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

Thirty-four new pieces of debris were recently added to the growing junk heap in Earth orbit.

Compared with a coronagraph, a starshade has a wider field of view and can allow the telescope to see planets closer to their star.

Russia’s new ground-based satellite-zapping system; Indonesia buys Bell, Airbus helos; India’s Tejas edges closer to full operations; Staff changes at Pentagon.

The commander-in-chief’s attacks put the USS Gerald R. Ford’s subsystem in the spotlight.

Skepticism in the supply chain lingers over going beyond new production targets for making airliners already outlined for 2019.

A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.

Need workers? Got workers but they don’t have the right skills? After decades of shedding employees, A&D finds itself in a race to staff-up ahead of everything. What should companies do?

Rolls-Royce-led team wants to beat 210-mph record set by Siemens-modified Extra 330 in 2017.

The former Southwest CEO was a master of employee relations and an important innovator.

If the U.S. is to retain leadership in hypersonics, a sustained increase in university research programs is critical.

UK will strengthen drone laws later this year with new register and online safety test.

More automation does not necessarily lead to more safety; the role of pilots needs to be reconsidered.

With more than five decades of ducted fan and tiltrotor experience, Bell is combining new technology with old concepts to take on emerging air taxi revolution.

Electric speed bid; electrification road map; Boom builds funds; UAM market forecast; other technology news.

Airbus is making the most of new communications technologies to help carriers share safety information.

General Atomics accelerates MQ-9B flight-test progress as UK issues airworthiness requirements for Protector RG1 variant.

The Avangard test highlights the looming threat facing NATO from Russian hypersonic weaponry.