Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg sat down with Aviation Week before the Farnborough Airshow to discuss the 737 MAX family, KC-46A tanker, supplier issues and much more.
Both civil and defense companies will have to renew focus on profitable delivery of existing orders and accelerate innovation in products and business models, leading to greater pressure on suppliers.
After years of massive cost overruns and schedule delays, Raytheon’s next-generation GPS ground-control segment is now facing a new round of trouble – a Pentagon review about whether the program should continue.
The British government needs to be “relatively bold” in order to attract investment from business and stabilize the uncertainty caused by the country’s “Brexit” decision to leave the European Union, according to U.K. aerospace trade organization ADS.
Airbus Group and Safran say they will conclude a merger of their space business units June 30 under the new Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) joint venture.
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON—U.S. Navy Lt. Christopher Montague was way off the mark for a safe and solid nominal aircraft carrier landing as he approached—high and right of the seesawing carrier deck.
India has successfully test launched a new medium range surface-to-air missile in a latest effort to secure the country’s skies from enemy fighter aircraft and neutralize aerial attacks.
Materials and special manufacturing giant Alcoa will be the sole supplier of proprietary wing skins and fuselage sheet to Embraer for its E2 family of jet airliners under a multiyear $470 million contract unveiled June 30.
The U.S. Marine Corps is increasingly relying on aircraft, missile systems and “expeditionary” command and control systems to extend its reach, especially in the remote distances of the Asia-Pacific, says Lt. Gen. John Wissler, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command.
The British people have spoken, and their decision has caused reverberations around the world. The U.K.'s aerospace sector is the largest in Europe and second largest in the world. What does the Brexit vote mean for the future of the sector?
Never an agency to be deterred by past failure, DARPA las launched another attempt to demonstrate a turbine-based combined-cycle engine capable of powering an aircraft from zero airspeed to Mach 6 and back.
BrahMos flies from a Sukhoi fighter; Russia to receive modernized Buk missile system; Indonesia, Malaysia ground Super Puma helos; U.S. Navy tests new radar with manned/unmanned teaming.
A trio of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has touched down on British soil, two years after a fleet-wide grounding prompted by an engine fire foiled plans for the aircraft’s international debut in the U.K.
Higher-than-anticipated concentrations of manganese oxides in rock veins studied by NASA’s Curiosity rover in the more than 3.5-billion-year-old Gale Crater on Mars point to an ancient Red Planet environment with higher concentrations of atmospheric oxygen.
Citing advances in modeling and manufacturing, Darpa is to try again to demonstrate a turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC) engine that can operate from zero airspeed to beyond Mach 5, to power future air-breathing reusable hypersonic vehicles.
