Aviation Week & Space Technology

After a tour of Boeing in Seattle and talks with leaders, analysts maintain confidence in OEM despite 737 glider growth.

KaiserAir, an Oakland, California-based charter outfit, airline, FBO and management firm—and once part of an industrial colossus—is expanding further, very much on its own.

Defense plans outlines modernization through to the 2030s.

Once the workhorse of the U.S. launch fleet, United Launch Alliance’s Delta II heads into the history books.

With completion of development flight-testing, the Lockheed Martin-led team provides a deep dive into the engineering effort behind developing the F-35.

The F-35B exists because of its commonality with the F-35A and F-35C, but all three variants are better aircraft because of the STOVL version challenges.

Crossover narrowbodies—whose capacity falls between regionals and single-aisles—are almost all clean-sheet designs and have maintainability “designed in.”

Rather than landing back on Earth, ULA Vulcan rockets will parachute just its engines for refurbishment and reflight.

Having already felt the bite of U.S. competition, Arianespace counting on new rocket to keep it in the commercial space launch game

Lockheed and Tata potentially to make F-16 wings in India; Russia to reengine Su-30SMs; India, Israel to make high-altitude UAV; Sierra Nevada bags A-29 pact.

Pentagon leaders want 3-5% budget growth after inflation. The next White House budget probably won’t give them that.

Nuclear mission is likely to be a critical element in Brussels’ future fighter thinking.

Borrowing best practices, technologies from heritage Atlas and Delta programs, ULA pivots to compete in new space environment.

Northrop designed the Vanguard architecture to support a shift to a modular approach that reuses the same software and hardware on a range of products spanning airborne, ground and surface platforms.

Fit checks for first electric motor conducted on X-57 Maxwell as composite cruise optimized wing comes stogether for follow-on test phase.

In a bid to improve visitor experience, France is pushing the use of airport automated passport control gates, despite organizational challenges.

Aeronautical researcher and engineering test pilot Robert Harper, co-developer of the Cooper-Harper pilot rating scale, died on Aug. 23.

How a Tier 1 provider plans to go from being an old-school manufacturer to a digital powerhouse.

The U.S. Navy has picked a winner for its hotly contested, unmanned, carrier-based aircraft, but will the losers go away quietly?

The efforts of employees since 1958 have helped the FAA deliver the world’s best aviation safety record, the agency says.

The history of aviation has largely been about improving performance, and a thread running through that narrative has been industry efforts to reduce the cost of its expensive products.

Since the first flight of the fifth-generation stealth fighter, the defense ministry has scaled back plans for its purchase.

Sensor upgrades and propulsion advances set to boost IAI space-based intelligence-gathering.

Vacuum-chamber test results drive design improvements to NASA Mars Helicopter.

While Jet Airways is forced to undertake a cost-cutting program, other Indian carriers also are under increased financial pressure.