Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jens Flottau
Signing more open skies agreements such as the one with the UK won’t open more strategic options for U.S. airlines.
Air Transport

By Lee Hudson, Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
The move marks the next battle in the long-running tanker aircraft competition, as three of the biggest aerospace companies fight for a key market.
Defense and Space

By Jens Flottau
Aside from external factors, Airbus generated many of its own problems. Significant changes to its in-house production system created far more issues than anticipated.
Air Transport

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

By Bradley Perrett
The sensor is part of an effort to accumulate technology for the Future Fighter. It is sized for demonstration in an F-2.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
The F-15 upgrade looks extensive, judging from a budget request of ¥43.9 billion ($387 million) for development in this fiscal year.
Defense and Space

By Jens Flottau, Kerry Reals
WOW has been expanding aggressively the past few years in competition with Icelandair, connecting destinations in Europe and North America.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Defense contractors’ work for Saudi Arabia seems to fall in a Goldilocks position. It sounds like a recipe for the status quo, like it or not.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble, Michael Bruno
The higher demand comes from U.S. allies and the Pentagon, as it seeks to regrow missile stocks after years of sequestration budget caps.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
After winning the T-X contract, Boeing expects to prepare generations of Air Force pilots to fly fourth- and fifth-generation aircraft.
Connected Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Devised with Palantir Technologies, Airbus’ Skywise data-sharing and analysis platform enables connecting information that used to be found in silos.
Connected Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
Terrain relative navigation is opening a wider window for Mars exploration.
Space

By Guy Norris
The first Boeing 777X moves to final assembly position after a trouble-free run through the low-rate initial-production line.
Air Transport

Anthony L. Velocci, Jr., and R. Byron Pipes
Software providers and OEMs have a joint responsibility to ensure that small and medium-size suppliers gain access to the simulation and modeling tools.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Pop.Up fly/drive demo; ADAC eyes Volocopter; UK integrates drones; Stratobus airship progresses; Germany tests MUM-T; eVTOL prototype flies.
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Jen DiMascio
Why Ellen Stofan is confident humans will follow robots to Mars in less than 20 years and how she plans to bring the 42-year-old institution back to the future.
Space

By Steven Grundman
Report to Congress warns of “dangerous” erosion of U.S. military superiority that risks “grave and lasting” consequences for the nation.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
A pair of briefcase-size satellites prove a “bring your own” communications relay option for deep-space missions.
Connected Aerospace

By Sean Broderick, Adrian Schofield
Mechanics failed to fix reported faults following several previous flights of the accident aircraft.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
The European airframer is trying to shrink the potential market for Boeing’s new midmarket airplane.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Russia’s newest light transport aircraft; Egypt may buy $1 billion in Apache helos; the impact of Elbit’s IMI acquisition and Malaysia’s drone squadron.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno, Joe Anselmo
Executives assert the new UTC, unveiled in late November, is positioned for the long-haul in A&D, not just against any one OEM or aircraft.
Defense and Space

By William Garvey
The draw by the airlines offering high compensation and predictable schedules is being countered with salary boosts for veteran crewmembers
Business Aviation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Moves toward consolidation may not be enough.
Air Transport

By Irene Klotz
Experimental cubesats relayed the probe’s entry, descent and touchdown data in near real time.
Space