Aviation Week & Space Technology

Readers react to F-35 articles, including Pentagon balking about repaired parts, its lack of moving-target capability and Trump's approach to drumming up sales. Also, reactions to a proposal for privatizing ATC.

Space is the only domain where platforms cannot be routinely serviced, repaired and upgraded to keep them operating and up to date with technology advances. Two planned demos, one by NASA and one by DARPA, could change that.

Using mass-production, York Space Systems plans to lower the barrier of entry to space.

A Chinese airport construction plan is weighted to the south and west of the country. Three airport clusters are planned.

Japan’s next strategy review to look at ability to strike North Korea; UK and France team up on long-range missile program; Finland pursues F-18 replacement, and the U.S. Navy’s plan to buy more Boeing P-8s.

The failure of the freighter crew to perform a go-around after a flawed instrument approach in Kyrgyzstan in January was not all that uncommon, based on the forensics of approach and landing accidents.

Industry picks up the tab to complete key technology demonstrations begun under Europe’s Clean Sky 1 research program after delays pushed them beyond the end of the public-private partnership begun in 2008.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Signs point to a coming price and supply chain squeeze for the defense industry.

Aviation Week talks with the outgoing FAA Associate Administration for Aviation Safety, Peggy Gilligan, about the most pressing safety challenges and opportunities facing the FAA and the aviation industry.

As the nation’s space mission grows, does the service have enough clout to manage it all?

Seatback inflight entertainment is critical to the cabin experience, but content streaming to personal devices is on the rise.

The transformative V-22 is driving requirements for the Marine Corps’ next-generation rotorcraft fleet.

The probe’s mission will finish with a spectacular plunge into Saturn’s clouds, after a wistful look back at our “pale blue dot.”

Dynetics and General Atomics move to the next phase of a DARPA program to validate air launch and recovery of multiple small unmanned aircraft called Gremlins.

Capability and cost will be important factors in the tiny nation’s decision to replace 54 F-16s with 34 new fighters.

Aerojet Rocketdyne says there is enough manufacturing work in the ground-bases strategic deterrent missile project for two rocket motor suppliers.

The drumbeat for a new Boeing midsize jetliner is growing louder. But beyond the idea of a new aircraft, things get complicated. The 797’s twin-aisle configuration is the big issue.

The UK’s aviation industry had hoped for special priority in EC-UK negotiations around Brexit, but that’s not happening.

Supersonic startup scores funds; Light shines on solar fuels; No end yet for Endless Runway; Bending control for stratospheric UAV . . . and more UAS news

VR could transform airline passengers' experiences, taking them to a new inflight world.

Operators are impressed by the fuel savings achieved a year after entering service. But the PW1100G engine is still causing problems, and fixes are pending.

Women have made great inroads in aerospace finance and management, but they remain woefully underrepresented on the technical side of the industry.

By requiring laptops and other devices with lithium-ion batteries to be put in cargo holds, the Homeland Security Department may be setting up a “perfect storm” of conditions that could lead to an uncontrollable fire.

The two countries will tell each other what they want from a future fighter and what technology they have. Then they will consider studying a joint program.

The Lrwbca is supposed to be a 50:50 split, but the headquarters and engineering team will be in Shanghai, the project leader and possibly the engine Chinese.