Aviation Week & Space Technology

Technology needs to be proven carefully, but the service should not risk losing funds budgeted for a multidomain command-and-control system of networks.

Boeing’s Leonardo-designed aircraft eclipses Sikorsky to win $2 billion Huey replacement contract.

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

In tests in Australia, using a Cessna Caravan iron bird, startup MagniX runs its electric motor with a propeller for the first time.

Some industry watchers are concerned that a provision of a bill clearing the way for the FAA to regulate minimum seat sizes could allow Congress to overstep its bounds.

Transcend Air defines an approach to intercity air travel that combines schedule services with tiltwing VTOL aircraft.

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

U.S. Air Force’s contract for trainers comes on the heels of Huey replacement and carrier-based UAV wins.

The four-year competition to supply U.S. engine for new Vulcan rocket ends with Jeff Bezos-backed BE-4 toppling traditional supplier.

Spaceplane drives design of world’s largest additively made liquid rocket engine for Stratolaunch family of vehicles.

PGA-powered high-speed vehicle could double-up as stepping stone to Black Ice spaceplane as well as hypersonic flying testbed.

On paper and under the right conditions a merger would make perfect sense, but those conditions are unlikely anytime soon.

Thai Airways and Garuda Indonesia have appointed new CEOs to steer the airlines through the next phase of their recovery plans.

The mood at the AIAA Spaceplanes and Hypersonics conference was bullish amid growing investment in space infrastructure and hypersonic development. Listen in as our editors discuss their findings.

Japan is one of the world’s most important supplier nations, but events this year show that its position faces major challenges.

Politics ensnares India’s Rafale purchase; Israel’s "special tactics" in Syria; Pilatus PC-21 reports to French Air Force; U.S. Marines to buy shipboard UAVs.

The FAA-led Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar program would modernize surveillance and weather radar systems.

The Japanese defense ministry hopes to get funding to Subaru to begin production of UH-Xs in the fiscal year beginning in April 2019.

It could come down to a matter of timing, as the U.S. Army balances its requirements for new armed reconnaissance and long-range assault rotorcraft.

Looking ahead to a future where drone fleets and air taxis share urban airspace, Mitre Corp. proposes a dedicated drone-to-drone surveillance system.

The surprise move brings together two former archrivals with differing satellite strategies—Inmarsat and Panasonic Avionics.

Small drone businesses face hurdles with the regulatory process that the FAA needs to remedy.

While analysts like the idea of adding to the force to fight high-end threats, budget realities are likely to get in the way.

U.S. airlines and air traffic controllers are realizing benefits from using text-based messages to supplement radio communications.

GE’s fluidic propulsion tie-up; Astro eVTOL flies in Canada; SureFly buyer sought; XTI advances TriFan; TsAGI’s superconducting eVTOL.