Aviation Week & Space Technology

Upcoming flight test is shaping Orion design, Moon mission date

Europe will consider alternate designs for affordable Ariane 5 successor

X-56 flight tests aim to take the fear factor out of aeroelastic instability

South Korea’s air force is unwilling to wait forever for the KF-X

Saab claims lead in gallium-nitride use

Breaking barriers between flight control, aero­elastic design could enable new aircraft concepts

Tempest brews over proposed carrier cuts

Gripped by procurement changes, Germany seeks to fill sigint capability gap

T he level of tension between the unmanned- aircraft community and the FAA over its ban on civil UAS was clear when the agency announced it will consider using special legislation to authorize limited commercial operations.

Swiss populace votes ‘no’ on Gripen, forcing the government to look at new ideas

Like many of its regional peers, Royal Jordanian faces structural and political hurdles

IATA’s legacy members meeting in Qatar see how their fiercest rivals continue to grow

U.S. Navy says it can thwart Chinese ASBM threat

As IATA meets in Qatar, some fundamental disagreements among members are not resolved

2014 is pivotal for Pratt & Whitney’s commercial engine revival

Chadwick's strategy for succeeding in the future hinges on breaking from the pack to create what he calls “true differentiation”.

Turkish Airlines is becoming a real nuisance for Gulf carriers in their own backyard

"We are likely to see increasing numbers of remote operations, away from congested main airports,” says Mario Formica.

“Market Squeeze” ( AW&ST April 28/14, p. 38) gave me an idea for air transport that could save money for both the airlines and aircraft manufacturers

“The Empire Strikes Back” ( AW&ST May 19, p. 32) induces ire. I do not remember the RD-180—or any Russian rocket element—being a part of the U.S.’s Moon effort. Wernher von Braun and the NASA team created impressive motors. The plans still exist at NASA and the Library of Congress. The production lines can be recreated. All it would take is a willing Congress, money and a competent manufacturer.

Regarding Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders’s recent Viewpoint—“The Sad State of Defense in Europe”—we must cynically recognize that his speech was

I have read in several issues that regional pilots in the U.S. make about $19,000 per year. This seems unsustainable. My combined pension following

I agree with reader Gerald F. Howard ( AW&ST May 19, p. 8). Instead of mothballing the venerable A-10s in Arizona, why don’t we pay the Ukrainian air

“Tiger by the Tail” ( AW&ST May 12, p. 28), about regulating small unmanned aircraft, leads me to point out that as a private pilot there are very

I share Deborah Hersman’s belief that children “are just as valuable in the airplane as they are in the car” ( AW&ST April 28, p. 20). The former NTSB chairman noted that one of her regrets as she exited her 10-year run as head of that safety agency was her inability to enact rules governing safe transport of young children, specifically parents being forced to hold very young kids in their laps.