Aviation Week & Space Technology

With the F-35 development program 60% complete and two years to go, the test program is operating at a high pace.

Mix Formula One technology into an aviation turbo-diesel and you get a fuel-efficient, low-emission helicopter engine.

The Scout motto, “Be Prepared,” came in handy for the pilots of a Boeing 757 flying scientists from Christchurch to Pegasus Field in Antarctica when fog forced a landing at well below instrument minimums.

Dassault Aviation, long noted for both its civil and military aircraft offerings, may eventually have to opt for a purely civil product line due to diverse market and political influences.

South Korea’s LCH-LAH is supposed to become the leading 5-ton helicopter. But the base type chosen by Korean Aerospace Industries, the Airbus H155, has not been a strong seller. And there is not a lot of time to make big improvements before the targeted 2020 entry into service.

European governments ponder new antisubsidy initiatives against Gulf carriers as Emirates and Etihad Airways lobby their cases in Washington.

Seeing a potentially major new market, rocket and spacecraft builders are positioning themselves to appeal to designers of small satellite constellations.

Despite political headwinds, the U.S. Army is pushing ahead with a restructuring designed to protect investment in future rotorcraft.

Sikorsky has a full plate of helicopter programs, but they are just not profitable enough for parent United Technologies.

Reader disagrees with earlier reader’s assessment of the space shuttle’s worth; U.S. aerospace coalition takes issue with recent editorial on airline subsidies; pilot shortage solutions cited; another pilot shortage suggestion offered; a call for A-10 replacement and mission reassignment

European safety agency proposes three-tier framework for regulation of civil unmanned aircraft operations based on the risk they pose.

Lawmaker considers tweaking last year’s congressional restrictions on RD-180 engine purchases; NASA reschedules big-ticket design reviews after inspector general report; and the FAA is in for a change.

Reasons for the surge in mergers and acquisitions vary with the motivations of the involved companises.

Sun Flyer just might brighten the outlook of flight school operators while giving a lift to their bottom lines.

Junta Fukunaga has been appointed general manager of the Corporate Administration Div. of the Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. He was vice president of the General Affairs Department. Other recent job transfers at Mitsubishi are: Toshihiro Kawachi to deputy head from vice president of sales and marketing; Yugo Fukuhara to vice president-sales and marketing from group sales director; Kazuhide Shinoda to deputy head of the Engineering Div.

The U.S. has little to show for the millions of dollars it has invested over nearly a decade for training and equipping Yemeni counterterror forces.

AgustaWestland and Boeing battle it out to upgrade the U.K.’s Apache fleet.

Budget realities and better software may be thawing the U.S. government’s resistance to “non-traditional” space sensors to augment the high-priced systems it has developed and fielded over the years.

Technology for the James Webb Space Telescope may be applied to follow-on observatories with almost twice the aperture.

Governments in Singapore and Hong Kong are throwing their weight behind major airport expansions.

With more than 6,200 receivers in place around the populated portions of the world, Flightradar24 will now turn to the oceans to give the nascent surveillance provider more visibility of long-haul routes.

For almost 20 years, WestJet Airlines had a simple business model. But now it is expanding into turboprops and widebodies. Will it work?

JAXA tries again with quiet-supersonic D-Send; Lockheed adds UAS information to FAA flight services; U.K. extends X-ray inspection to large composites; Russia’s air-cushion UAS; Kickstarter crowdfunding bid for collision-avoidance system.

There used to be stealth aircraft and non-stealth aircraft, but new detection technology is making that distinction more complicated.

Helicopter manufacturers may be closing in on a long-sought goal: eliminating rotor-blade vibration.