The latest Greek financial crisis may seriously affect Aegean Airlines, which has grown in the past few years despite continuous national fiscal problems.
Japan’s big two airlines are following different courses on international growth, but both are adding to what are already the world’s largest Boeing 787 fleets.
It may be difficult to prove, but the Justice Department is looking into how the big four U.S. airlines may have publicly signaled each other about capacity discipline.
Remote towers and security concerns; the Moon's limited assets; gravity of loss of Falcon 9 noted; Gulf carriers, some good and bad points; FAA partly to blame for high-fare situation
Strategy for government and industry R&D investment aims to build the U.K.’s position as a supplier of key components and systems for civil aircraft as new architectures and configurations emerge.
Will McCain’s proposal to bring service chiefs into weapons-buying process stand? Will Obama side with airlines or airframe makers? And the space economy grows.
With Seoul’s selection of the A330 MRTT, the Airbus tanker has now beaten the Boeing KC-46 in nine non-U.S. competitions. Launch customer Australia, meanwhile, has set Airbus’s airliner-to-tanker conversion program in motion.
How to get to Mars is only part of the question. NASA calls for ideas on the best places to actually land, optimal also for living, mining resources and conducting scientific exploration.
Russia’s Progress 60 resupply vehicle delivered supplies to ISS crew, along with a sense of relief to space handlers worldwide in the aftermath of a spate of resupply mission launch failures.
The Chinese government has ordered A330s in bulk and will encourage—if necessary, direct—Chinese airlines to take them. Hainan Airlines has the best reason to comply.
The U.K. Airports Commission’s unanimous decision to select the £15 billion northwest runway option proposed by Heathrow’s owners was hardly a surprise, but it will likely provoke protests.
U.K. government investment in civil aerospace R&D is now channeled through the Aerospace Technology Institute, and the organization releases its first strategy to guide where the money will be spent.
Clinic deliveries by UAS; new turbine superalloys in the mix; airline backs biofuel from waste; Embraer to fly ecoDemonstrator; better carbon-fiber repairs.
Lapse in Ex-Im bank assistance could hurt Boeing in the long term, and the general aviation community sooner; Former NASA chief provides another perspective on SpaceX’s commercial viability.
DEFENSE A Lockheed Martin F-35B dropped the U.K.’s Raytheon Paveway IV precision-guided bomb for the first time on June 12, two inert 500-lb. munitions being released from the aircraft’s weapons bay. On June 23, the first F-35B ski-jump launch was conducted at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. U.K. Queen Elizabeth-class carriers will be equipped with ski-jump ramps.
