Aviation Week & Space Technology

Leduc won Aviation Week’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 but had to wait a year to accept it because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Multidisciplinary design optimization lets engineers spend less time on detailed design and more time considering system requirements.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein, Lori Ranson
Cost pressures could complicate airlines’ COVID recovery.
Airlines & Lessors

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Richard Aboulafia
Why the world’s largest passenger airplane never gained market lift — and what it means for the widebody segment.
Aerospace

By Adrian Schofield
Airlines are readjusting their fleet strategies to prepare for the recovery of international networks.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jen DiMascio
F-35 Engine Shortage Easing; Operational test for F-15EX; Rivet Joint’s new life extension; Japan joins flight training school in Italy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By P. Barry Butler
Universities, in partnership with industry and government, must ensure a highly trained commercial space workforce is ready for blastoff.
Commercial Space

Alex Krutz
Forget offshoring or reshoring—the new trend in the U.S. defense is intershoring.
Supply Chain

By Sean Broderick
Issues extend to everyday business practices, such as using repairs instead of new parts.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Europe’s airlines are calling for updated travel rules to fit the new recovery phase.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Ankara is using drone diplomacy to improve its relations in the Middle East as interest grows in its unmanned aircraft systems.
Dubai Airshow

By Graham Warwick
Fuel-cell cargo drone; Electric air racers; LeoLabs down under; Hydrogen box wing; 100% SAF flights.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
A breakthrough agreement fast-tracked approvals for F-35As and MQ-9Bs to the UAE, but finalizing those deals could still take years.
Dubai Airshow

By Guy Norris
New NASA green airliner study to go beyond agency’s sustainable X-plane to include technology for broader reduced environmental impacts.
Emerging Technologies

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

By Sean Broderick, Brian Bostick
Long-term retirement totals expected to stay the same, but revised timing could create supply chain issues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Readers write about the turboprop age, satellite constellations, electric propulsion, UAP, U.S. military diversity and F-35 reengining.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

By Jen DiMascio
South Korea’s stealth plans; U.S. steps toward the E-7; Assembling Safran engines in Texas; and Army signs deal for SAR data integration.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio, Michael Bruno
The consensus from the Aviation Week DefenseChain Conference was that defense primes and suppliers are about to see their world turned on their heads.
Defense and Space

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

By Brian Everstine
After years of flying, one potential Black Hawk replacement will stay in the air as the other is broken down to inspect wear and tear.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey, Joe Anselmo, Molly McMillin, Guy Norris, Lee Ann Shay
After NBAA-BACE was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the business aviation community reconvened in Las Vegas.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Actor returns from spaceflight deeply touched by experience.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Science fiction becomes science fact as iconic Star Trek actor flies in space.
Commercial Space