Aviation Week & Space Technology

Ten years in the making, Cobalt’s five-seat Co50 emerges first as an experimental aircraft with a plan for certification by 2017.

The sight of the MRJ flying past Mount Fuji will gladden the many Japanese who have long been frustrated by the mismatch between the country’s advanced aerospace technology, notably in manufacturing, and its failure to make its own complete airliner since the 1970s.

If you believe LRS-B cost numbers or that Congress will buy 100 of them, you’re ignoring history.

With 9,900 aircraft forecast to retire in the next decade, nontraditional players are chasing the disassembly market.

Airbus makes clear at the Dubai Airshow that it plans to build the new A380 version and possibly a larger A350 variant.

Google X executive sets 2017 as the target date to begin commercial deliveries by unmanned aircraft, but will the technology and the airspace be ready by then?

Commercial space bill nears final passage; Middle East nations seek precision weapons; DHS pledges new security enhancements; and Ex-Im Bank reauthorization takes another step forward.

Although it will be years before Boeing officially commits to a new midsize airplane, clues about its potential design abound.

Boeing, Lockheed’s LRS-B protest could be aimed more at Congress than the GAO

Works in the Atlantic Council’s War Stories From the Future depict “how emerging antagonists, disruptive technologies, and novel warfighting concepts may animate tomorrow’s conflicts.”

UAE invests in tiltrotor and sends new light attack helos to Yemen.

Bombardier says its Global 7000 will now enter service in 2018, but seems awfully quiet about the 8000’s schedule.

Avic reveals details about China’s answer to the F-35; Boeing and Tata pursue ‘Make in India’ manufacturing center of excellence; Textron readies small precision weapons for purchase in 2016; Lebanon’s low-cost UAV.

After the failure of the E-10, Saab re-imagines the multi-sensor, single platform surveillance capability.

U.S. industry, banking on worldwide sales, worries that the glacial government approval process could affect pending export deals.

Delivering a staggering 1 terabits per second of throughput, ViaSat-3 will also comprise the first spacecraft in a three-satellite constellation designed to provide global broadband from geostationary orbit, feeding mobile demand from the U.S. government and commercial aeronautical markets.

Ideas abound as NASA takes a deeper look at how it will use the big new Saturn V-class Space Launch System in the 2020s and beyond.

NASA evaluators appear to have winnowed the field for future ISS cargo contractors to the commercial-cargo capsules already operated by CRS-1 contractors Orbital ATK and SpaceX and an unmanned cargo version of the Sierra Nevada Corp. Dream Chaser reusable lifting body.

Airbus gives Emirates some hope for the A380neo, while the airline considers ordering more A350s but keeps options open for the 787. Neither is acting quickly.

The last Dubai Airshow saw record-breaking orders for commercial airliners. Not so this year, but our onsite editors say that’s not necessarily something to worry about. They explain why in this report from the show.

Pipistrel pioneers cloud-based CFD; navigation by pulsar; NASA’s Ptera UAV is a flying lab; aviation fuel from gas tested; Aeryon gets equity boost for small UAVs.

China boasts a first in flying a regeneratively cooled, kerosene-fueled scramjet engine, but this feat seemingly repeats what the U.S. achieved in 2010-13 with the hypersonic X-51A.

Mathematically proving software that does only what it is supposed to provides a route to eliminating cybervulnerabilities in airborne systems, Darpa’s Hacms program demonstrates.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin claim the U.S. Air Force’s Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) competition was flawed, leading to an unfair award to Northrop Grumman.

Avionics and Safety Editor John Croft, Managing Editor for Transport Jens Flottau and Executive Editor Jim Asker discuss the safety and security implications of the crash of the Russian charter carrier’s A321.