Lockheed Martin has crafted a new, reduced cost plan to “optionally man” its U-2.

Flying far is more important than flying fast, Japanese fighter technologists have found in studies aimed at defining their country’s next combat aircraft. Researchers are also emphasizing that Japan’s next fighter should share targeting data and carry a big internal load of large, high-performance missiles.

The inevitable has happened in the U.S. attempt to move the economy off the planet. That it happened twice in a week is driving a needed element of reality into the endeavor.

It has been decades since anyone reengined an in-service jetliner. Can engine retrofits make a comeback?

A wireless sensor technology can detect damage, measure fuel levels and even potentially redirect lightning strikes to safe areas on an aircraft's exterior.

One is powered, the other is a glider, otherwise French and U.S. concepts for affordably air-launching small satellites look pretty similar.

AFRL’s $3 million combat aircraft; Darpa’s UAV aircraft carrier; Google’s Hangar One plans; NASA flies flexible flaps; man-insect teaming

Aviation Week editors discuss the F-35C and its ongoing carrier trials.