Defense and Space

The historic B-29 Superfortress known as “Doc” has received FAA approval of a new airworthiness certificate and will soon be able to tour.

Availability of Australia’s Airbus attack helicopters is improving—but maybe not quickly enough to stave off early disposal.

Lt. Col. David Berke, the only U.S. Marine Corps pilot to have flown an F-22 and the first operational F-35B pilot, explains how fifth-generation fighters will revolutionize air warfare.

The Pentagon has delivered its supplemental budget request for fiscal 2017 to the White House for review, more than a week after the March 1 target. &

The price of the U.S. Marine Corps’ new CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter has grown by 22% over initial estimates.

The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy announced two major nuclear weapons milestones this week.

Airbus and the Royal Australian Air Force have agreed to research possible improvements to the A330 MRTT tanker, focusing initially on automatic operation of the refueling boom.

Ground tests are being conducted at different ISRO facilities in anticipation of India's first soft touchdown on the lunar surface.

Austrian Red Cross emergency response teams are to test a UAV-equipped communications vehicle developed by Jaguar Land Rover under Project Hero.

Paying up front will cut Lightning costs, says the program office. So will a steady production ramp-up—and multiyear orders.

Shoreham Airshow crash investigation shines spotlight on regulatory and organizational failings of air display events.

In this week's Washington Outlook, European satellite manufacturers stand to benefit if Trump’s trade policies alienate U.S. export customers; cruise missiles assessed; security tradeoffs crop up.

U.S. government regulators are being overwhelmed by a flood of license requests from entrepreneurial space companies featuring technologies and applications that are new to the commercial world, industry and government officials said.

NASA’s Kepler mission has archived for the science community new raw data from a sustained and just-concluded Trappist-1 observing campaign using the exoplanet-seeking space telescope.

Lawmakers have given the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System program until March 2018 to wrap up pre-development studies and technology maturation work.

Leading consumer UAV manufacturer DJI is pushing for a higher weight limit of 2.2 kg (4.8 lb.) below which small unmanned aircraft systems are considered relatively harmless and do not require registration and are only lightly regulated.

The HASC's proposed $640 billion military base budget for fiscal 2018 includes $11 billion for more Lockheed Martin F-35s and Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets.

Leonardo has begun studies into a radically updated version of its best-selling AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter.

ILS has uncovered a problem with a component in a second-stage engine that delayed the launch of the Echostar XXI satellite on the Proton Breeze M rocket in December, company President Kirk Pysher says.

Hybrid Air Vehicles has made design changes to the Airlander 10, including the ability to recover the mooring line after release, following the heavy landing at the end of the hybrid airship’s second flight in August 2016.

A top U.S. Air Force general says the so-called OCX program is still on rocky ground.

Despite the visit, Indonesian officials played down expectations that an order for the airlifter was imminent.

Leonardo looks to bolster its existing core business of electro-optical and infrared sensors and systems with the acquisition, and ride business growth in new U.S. military aircraft survivability systems.

The U.S. Navy is finishing up testing of a 100% biofuel aimed a certifying the alternative to petroleum-based JP-5 jet fuel for use across all its fleets of turbine-powered aircraft.

Sikorsky, Metro Aviation and Petroleum Helicopters have developed a way of streaming health and usage monitoring system data off a helicopter so it can be used for urgent analysis.