Aviation Week & Space Technology

CAE uses Grob G 120TPs and simulator motherships for an innovative Army training program.

Britain’s NATS expects 2008’s air travel record highs to be exceeded as demand for airspace increases.

United’s CEO “made a horrific situation worse,” when he sent an email praising employees following Sunday’s incident. Listen in as our editors discuss the broader damage the incident has done to the U.S. airline industry.

United Airlines’ response to a social media backlash from forcefully removing a passenger from an overbooked flight was weak.

Industry is seeing a dramatic shift in launch hardware as the spacefaring nations of the world prepare new rockets for peaceful and not-so-peaceful access to orbit and beyond.

The package of cabin updates should free up enough cabin floor space to increase seating from the average of 497 on A380s now in operation to 575 in four classes, substantially growing airline revenues.

Although Rolls-Royce continues to dominate the high-thrust engine market for large-cabin, long-range business jets, the company’s position is under attack.

A requirement to double the South Korean maritime patroller force is regarded as urgent as North Korea works on a submarine-launched ballistic missile.

Malaysia’s military and government have been talking about obtaining new maritime patrol aircraft for a decade.

There may be an explanation for the thin atmosphere that seems to come and go from Ceres, the largest of the Solar System’s main belt asteroids.

China’s first international hypersonics conference, held in Xiamen, amounted to a coming-out party for the nation’s swift progress in high speed flight research.

Could China’s hypersonic combined-cycle engine be the first to fly?

Wealthy and well-armed Singapore tends to not to shirk at paying for expensive military equipment. That factor could help the Poseidon as it assesses patroller options.

With the Trump administration still finding its way in space, NASA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are proposing concepts for Mars exploration.

Hauling helium by airship, making the Airlander safer, Swiss drone delivers samples, E-volo unveils air taxi, Airbus going Voom in Brazil, NASA flies Prandtl wing.

General Electric CEO sees a future with an ascendant China, big data, additive manufacturing and electric propulsion.

A panoply of distinctive aircraft grace the labels of various wines from Sonoma, California, family-owned vineyard now poised to shutter its decades-old business.

The United Launch Alliance is close to choosing an engine for its Vulcan rocket between Blue Origin’s BE-4 and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s AR-1. Meanwhile Orbital ATK is pitching a solid rocket motor for the Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle launch system. Aviation Week editors have the details.

The complexity of integrated systems and cross-border involvement have made certification costs higher than development costs for aerospace equipment.

In this week's Washington Outlook: Jeff Immelt urges business leaders not to count on government help, ATC reform may not tax GA operators, the NRO seeks more willingness to accept risk and the Air Force and FAA to start space traffic management pilot program.

The story line behind the aerospace industry’s grand consolidation.

Early signs are promising as Alaska Air Group plots course for Virgin America integration, although some key decisions are still pending.

Air Force not committing to F-15C EW upgrade; Chile to receive Black Hawks; Intel chief watching for new ASAT weapons, and Boeing to deliver C-17 to India.

Germany’s battle of the heavy-lift helicopters, India to buy 100 Barak-1 missiles while it looks to replace the type, Malaysia not ready to commit to Dassault Rafale fighters, and Aero Vodochody gets back into the light fighter game.

Static tests showed that the MC-21, the first Russian airliner with a composite wing, will need that wing reinforced.