GE tries new tooling concepts and designs for CMC components, specifically for aircraft engines.

Paris and Cairo recently finalized new defense cooperation accords, including a deal for development and construction of a military communications satellite.

The history of UAVs is a cycle of enthusiasm and indifference, success and failure, a journey from urgent requirement to frontline action to neglected storage. But that cycle has been broken, and unmanned aircraft are here to stay, in military and civil aviation.

Solid structural health monitoring for composites is the next goal of the MRO industry, and advances are being made on many fronts.

The demand for low-cost, rapidly available off-the-shelf countermeasures against small unmanned aircraft systems from both government and commercial customers seems to be growing.

Airlander airship approved to fly; NASA to validate RTCA’s UAS standards; Darpa tests drop-in sense-and-avoid; Armadillo’s Stig returns as Sarge; Rocket Lab moves closer to launch.

National Research of Canada says two new ice-particle detection technologies are ready for transition to industry to tackle the threat of high-altitude ice crystals causing engine rollback or flameout.

Germany’s E-Volo begins manned flight tests of its all-electric, 18-rotor Volocopter VC200 two-seat aircraft. Is it the vanguard of future personal aviation?