Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Joe Anselmo
Embraer CEO aims to grow MRO to a quarter of the company’s business as it targets Asia with the E2.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Turkey is developing the Hurkus into an advanced trainer and a battlefield warrior.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Predix drone swarms; Islamic State group UAVs; laser attack-logging app; Alphabet X ends Titan stratospheric internet project.
Aerospace

By Jens Flottau
The manufacturer believes it can get through the order downturn because its backlog is so large and it has increased production only slowly in the past.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
South Korea’s missile-defense system, Chunggung PIP, will go into production in 2017, a year early. Deployment of the predecessor Chunggung anti-aircraft system near the North Korean border is complete
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s Washington Outlook, Mattis pledges to defend NATO, the continued scrutiny of F-35 costs and the FAA proposes a new way to navigate the East Coast.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

U.S. companies will draw on their experience building scientific and commercial communications spacecraft to develop probes that will explore remnants of the early Solar System.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Safran is hoping changes will help its factories design production lines of the future.
Connected Aerospace

Aviation Week Avionics and Safety Editor John Croft samples an Airbus vision system designed to provide helicopter pilots with cues needed to fly more safely at night and in degraded visual environments, including brownout and whiteout.
Connected Aerospace

By William Garvey
Where you can order up turbulence on cue and barf bags are at the ready for however many takes are needed?
Business Aviation

By Jen DiMascio
In this week’s roundup, Pentagon allows Raytheon to sell SM-6 abroad, Malaysia to receive light scout attack helicopters, U.S. Air Force’s missile-warning satellite prepared for launch and Morocco to add electronic warfare system to its F-16s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Airbus buys an electron-beam additive manufacturing machine to 3-D-print titanium airframe structural components for production aircraft.
Aerospace

By Richard Aboulafia
Airbus and Boeing guidance, until recently, indicated that they expect a 17-year supercycle, but the end came after 12 as the world economy slows.
Air Transport

Tom and Jerry are more than an old-school cartoon, they are now an important cubesat experiment.
Commercial Space

By Rupa Haria, Graham Warwick, Guy Norris
AIAA’s SciTech conference is happening this week in Grapevine, Texas. Listen in as our editors discuss the new developments, highlights and big questions facing the aerospace community.
Aerospace

As the Pentagon postpones a final decision on the fate of the aging Warthog, the aircraft’s maintainers are challenged to keep up with demand from the field.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
DARPA sees government and private-sector agreement on standards for rendezvous and proximity operations as essential to development of a successful commercial on-orbit robotic satellite repair service.
Commercial Space

The rugged terrain north of Tucson, Arizona, is an appropriate environment to sample the special sensor-driven symbology in this Airbus company’s 3-D vision prototype.
Connected Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Jen DiMascio
CEO of Brazilian company plans to structure its defense unit with international sales of KC-390 in mind.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
High fuel prices drove interest in electric taxiing. With oil prices low, pushback time savings is also a driver.
Aerospace

The FAA’s new enhanced-flight-vision rule paves the way for airlines to install technology to fly as if in clear weather all the time, but will they buy it?
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
The minimal change in design is expected to be cheaper and faster to develop and still compete aggressively against Airbus’s A321neo.
Air Transport

The T-X and J-Stars competitions are finally underway, but who will respond and who is all talk?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Vanilla sets record; Latitude advances VTOL; Singapore drone traffic management; EHang air taxi progress; more unmanned news.
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Jen DiMascio
Raytheon CEO Tom Kennedy talks to Aviation Week’s editors about its cyberbusiness and transformational technologies.
Defense and Space