Aviation Week & Space Technology

The president has asked Congress to spent about $700 billion on the U.S. military in fiscal 2019, providing a cash infusion for fighter aircraft, the nuclear arsenal, missile defense, navy lasers and more.

At this point, the Outer Space Treaty legally applies only to countries, not commercial companies.

The new defense budget request is not a complete return to Cold War heydays for industry, but it is close enough for a marketplace that never truly left it.

Closer study of Bauhaus Luftfahrt’s PFC confirms projected fuel savings from BLI, with wind-tunnel testing, higher-fidelity analysis and optimization next.

Data-driven strategy set to go beyond engine support and production, to design and closer integration between future propulsion systems and airframes.

The White House budget directs the space agency to wean from the International Space Station by 2025 and use commercial outposts instead.

With the damage and costs of wildfires soaring, Sikorsky has booked orders for up to 15 Firehawk firefighting helicopters in just a few months.

Japan-based low-cost carriers are planning to grow their fleets and expand to new international markets.

The stakes are high for Boeing as the Navy looks to make a series of F/A-18 design changes in response to a surge in hypoxia-like episodes.

A reduced production rate could help the A400M find export orders.

A navigation system developed by MIT models a drone’s situational uncertainty to help it fly fast in dense, cluttered environments.

Testing has shown that drag of the airframe and the thrust-specific fuel consumption of the PW1200G engine are matching targets. There is time for improvement.

Once the new constellation of 66 Iridium Next satellites is in place, Aireon plans to begin providing oceanic surveillance service.

Engineers are focusing on the data’s update rate, availability, stability, coverage, latency and position accuracy.

The two-year agreement includes overriding budget caps to bring defense and nondefense spending to new highs.

Winners in the boosted Pentagon budget are likely to include space, cyber and nuclear weapons.

Airbus begins Skyways flights; Singapore creates urban drone zone; Marine squads get quadcopters; BAE tests weapons bays; V-Bat VTOL UAV shows endurance.

Boeing unveils details of novel new landing gear design as 737-10 reaches firm configuration point.

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

Company plans ‘hopper’ tech development program for interplanetary spaceship.

The good news for aircraft manufacturers: high demand; the bad news: supply chain lags.

Boeing seems to have a popular concept in the NMA, but offers few clues on if it is any nearer to closing the business case for a widebody at narrowbody prices.

This week, all comments relate to a recent Viewpoint—"The U.S.'s Dangerous New Nuclear Policy"—which elicited a large number of responses.

First unveiled two years ago, the Ehang 184 electric VTOL air taxi is flying passengers in tests of both single- and two-seat versions.

Both Boeing and Embraer have enough reason to believe they will benefit from getting together.