Aviation Week & Space Technology

Northrop Grumman Corp. promoted Stan Crow to chief executive for Japan. Robert J. LaBelle has been hired as CEO of XTI Aircraft Co.

Clean Sky Tiltrotor will feature tilt wing to boost payload capability, eliminate complexity involved in tilting engines.

The 2017 Philip J. Kass Laureate for Heroism goes to the rescue crew of Kenn Borek Air for their South Pole flight to rescue sick workers.

The Condition Analytics platform combines condition monitoring with predictive maintenance to make component maintenance, repair and overhaul more efficient.

Bombardier’s Rob Dewar is the winner of the 2017 Civil Aviation Laureate, for his work on the C Series.

The market for light single- and twin-engine models remains buoyant, while the defense market benefits as military spending rises in many countries.

Airbus Clean Sky 2 twin demonstrator designed to cruise on one engine.

Bell is turning the more than 400 letters of intent received for the Safran Arrius 2R-powered Model 505 JetRanger X into orders.

Marenco Swisshelicopter investing heavily to be ready for production of single-engine, 2.6-metric-ton SKYe SH09 light helicopter in 2018.

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In this week’s Washington Outlook, a jaundiced view of this year’s budget debate, NASA plans to buy more Russian rocket rides and a surge in attempts to carry weapons on to passenger aircraft.

Eutelsat, Viasat explain how manufacturers should provide cheaper and more flexible capacity on commercial satellites.

Leonardo and European researchers have big plans for civil tiltrotors. And new helicopters are coming in the next few years. Listen in as our editors discuss the state of the market and what’s coming next.

War crimes in Syria; Australia to buy new Jetwave communications system for transport aircraft; France chooses Leonardo radar for aircraft bound for North Africa; and Raytheon wins massive early-warning radar contract.

Apps can be an important revenue producer for carriers, so many in Europe are choosing to bring their development and management in-house.

Despite having two aircraft carriers until 1997, the French navy will now have none during an extended renovation and testing period of its only one.

Virgin is forming a dedicated new company, Virgin Orbit, to spearhead the development, testing and operation of its LauncherOne low-cost smallsat launch vehicle.

Startup LeoLabs to use a global network of ground radars to track orbital debris and provide collision prevention services to operators of LEO satellite constellations.

Human-rated and sensor-carrying stratospheric balloon flight development picks up pace.

Can the U.S. Air Force’s air refueling fleet keep up with the warfighter?

Modification of an ex-Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 airliner to carry and launch Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is well underway in Waco, Texas.

NASA is fully immersed in a five-year program to bring scheduling efficiency into the departure queues of the National Airspace System, in other words, getting rid of the “conga line.”

Rapid growth in the Ka-band high-throughput satellite market is putting pressure on spectrum. Moving to higher frequencies could unlock more capacity.

The Trump administration’s space agency transition team, NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are all working on various approaches to a crewed Moon flyaround.

The supply-chain changes are the result of a rigorous category-by-category parts review process.