Aviation Week & Space Technology

Boom Technology intends to develop 40-seat, Mach 2.2 airliner that will be competitive on ticket prices with international business-class airfares.

The first Airbus assembled in the U.S., an A321 for JetBlue Airways, made its first flight from the Mobile, Alabama, plant on March 21. The aircraft is scheduled for delivery after a few more weeks in final production.

Fully securing public spaces through additional security checks would be unrealistic, inefficient and costly, argues ACI Europe.

Curtiss-Wright’s commercial off-the-shelf hardware has made today’s bounty of space missions and research affordable.

Report on 2015 Germanwings crash from French safety investigator BEA makes important points and avoids overreaction.

The extremely thin wing of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing 4.5%-scale model meant the test team had to use pressure-sensitive paint, which can acquire data in areas inaccessible to conventional pressure measurements.

Phase 1, completed in 2010, indicated a TTBW design could reduce fuel consumption by 5-10% over a conventional cantilevered wing. Now Phase 3 tackles transonic capabilities.

U.S. Navy pilots are increasingly reporting headaches, confusion and other symptoms of oxygen deprivation, or hypoxia. We talk about how the Navy is responding to the problem and the complicated nature of pinpointing the cause of such physiological problems, which the Air Force has grappled with on the F-16 and F-22.

After several false starts, exports look more realistic for Britain’s Brimstone.

The U.S. Defense and State Departments scrap over speed of foreign weapons sales; tests of the PAC-3 MSE and Trident II D5; a new joint venture in India.

Russia received 96 new fixed-wing aircraft and 81 helicopters in 2015, a drop from 2014, the apparent peak in orders placed over the last decade.

U.S. Navy, Marine Corps engineers are focusing on oxygen and environmental systems in their search for solutions to ongoing F-18 hypoxia problems.

The new space plan provides 1.4 trillion rubles ($20.5 billion) through 2025—but largely guts earlier proposals to send humans to the Moon in the next decade and leaves in doubt timing of a joint mission to Mars with the European Space Agency.

As it completes assembly of three Radarsats for Canada, Winnipeg-based Magellan looks to enter the commercial satellite market.

Engineering trumps throughput as seat-makers’ biggest obstacle in the years ahead.

Airlines have attempted ultra-long-haul flying in the past, but more capable aircraft coupled with a reduction in fuel prices make this go-round seem more achievable.

Airlines explore ways to fit in more seats without squeezing passengers too much.

Would Lockheed’s C-130J equipped with retracting floats provide the U.S. military with an amphibian answer to China’s Avic TA600 long-range flying boat?

Production technology has advanced over the 15 years the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been in development. Now those advances are helping reduce the fighter’s cost.

Icephobic rubber; nanopowder lasers; sonic-boom data probe; Congress advances delivery UAS; industry wants FVL insight.

JPL Director Charles Elachi has spent “a lifetime dedicated to gaining a better understanding of the Solar System."

Swarz rushed to aid victims of an F-16 crash at an air base in Spain, saving two airmen from an accident that killed 11 others.

The mental health of pilots and the privacy of their records and consultations with doctors is back in the news following the report by French air safety investigators on the crash of a Germanwings A320 in the Alps last year. Jim Asker, Jens Flottau and John Croft discuss the issues and what might be done to prevent such tragedies.

There may be some hints of intent as the presidential campaign heads into the home stretch in September-October.

Offshore industry and OEMs have taken new approaches to safety procedures since the Shetlands Super Puma crash.