Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
AutoFlight plans to develop and certify its electric urban air taxi in Europe, manufacture the vehicle in China and market it globally.
Advanced Air Mobility

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Steve Trimble
The transformation of the Army’s fixed-wing intelligence fleet is about to transition from the experimental to the acquisition phase.
AUSA

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick, Jens Flottau
Lilium’s new CEO Klaus Roewe is confident the eVTOL manufacturer can freeze the production design next year and fly the Pegasus in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
TruWeather sees a need to build microweather sensor networks to support urban air mobility operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jens Flottau
Incoming MTU CEO Lars Wagner hopes to break CFM International’s Boeing 737 monopoly to power possible narrowbody successor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy’s first carrier-based, autonomous refueling aircraft has had “growing pains,” a Boeing executive says, as the production phase begins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Boeing has long owned the freighter market, but Airbus has launched the A350F and is looking at additional cargo versions.
Airlines & Lessors

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army and defense industry is eagerly awaiting the outcome of an extended bidding war for a long-range, high-speed rotorcraft.
AUSA

By Jen DiMascio, Joe Anselmo
On Oct. 14, eight renovated galleries of the museum in Washington, D.C., will reopen to the public. Chris Browne, the museum’s John and Adrienne Mars director,
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
SLS debut launch is scuttled by an approaching hurricane.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Axiom aims to include two Saudis during next private mission to the ISS.
Commercial Space

By Angus Batey
Volocopter is looking ahead not only to where its urban air taxis will fly but to the airspace and vertiports they will need to operate.
Business Aviation

By Thierry Dubois
As the European Commission and ESA rally to support reusability concepts, research and technology projects slip to the right.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A Mars architecture concept review is expected to be completed in January.
Space

By Michael Bruno
A web of challenges is holding back aerospace and defense from exceeding expectations, especially labor and supply chain issues.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
Startup believes it can automate air taxis but will face FAA certification challenges.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A program aimed at identifying cost savings inadvertently led to a major performance improvement for the Lockheed Martin stealth fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
SAF from carbon dioxide; Climate research HAPS; Vertical flies VX4; Rheagal cargo eVTOL; and UAM flight trials.
Emerging Technologies

By Kevin Michaels
Slowing long-term projections are due to multiple factors well beyond COVID and supply chain woes, such as China’s shrinking population
Airlines & Lessors

By Brian Everstine
The sailing of the long-delayed aircraft carrier is a trial run ahead of its 2023 operational deployment.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Hopeful that practical obstacles will be overcome, European Commission official says UAM will be a reality in Europe in 3-5 years.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Matthew Orloff
Operators of business aircraft can provide a personal touch to lure pilots, unlike the airlines whose size works against them.
NBAA