Flyback boosters and a reusable, scramjet-powered second stage to feature in Australian subscale launch demonstration

Boeing has not won a single international KC-46 order thus far; the Airbus KC-30 now has 48 orders.

It is back to the future for Lockheed Martin with its planned purchase of helicopter maker Sikorsky. In the 1960s, Lockheed had a rotorcraft business and its focus was on developing a high-speed helicopter - a key technology that will come with the Sikorsky acquisition.

Russia’s supersonic ambitions; Swiss test UAV deliveries; fuel cell keeps multirotor aloft; ATR “green regional” demo flies; 3-D-printed missile incoming.

New technologies for an advanced turboprop are under review by Turbomeca in readiness for start of the next Clean Sky demonstrator program.

The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft has its origins in tuna-spotting from boats. Now its designers return to the same unmet market with a different, more flexible design.

Solar Impulse crosses the Pacific and suffers some damage; Airbus E-Fan crosses the Channel and takes some heat.

With a cross-channel flight under its belt, Airbus begins to tackle serializing electric light aircraft.