Pressure is growing for an aircraft to show that sonic booms can be quiet.

Jet engine researchers study mysterious phenomenon behind more than 150 incidents.

The Volga-Dnepr Group has long been known primarily for its Antonov An-124-based outsize cargo charter business. But its scheduled operations are growing fast and strategic partnerships are serving to make the Russian logistics group a more serious international competitor.

While the airline world watches the seemingly unstoppable rise of the three big Persian Gulf carriers—Etihad Airways, Emirates and Qatar Airways—smaller airlines in the region are hurting like those elsewhere.

Corporate raider Paul Bilzerian may have ended up in prison after his takeover and break-up of diversified manufacturer Singer in the late 1980s, but he set in motion a chain of events that shaped and reshaped the flight-simulation market—and which may only now reaching their conclusion. Always technology-driven and highly competitive, the simulation industry has been wracked by waves of consolidation that have seen the some players change hands several times.

The plan had been new engines and minimal airframe changes, but it is not turning out that way.

Kazuo Inamori had no previous airline experience when he took the helm of struggling Japan Airlines in 2010. But the carrier's dramatic turnaround proves once again that good business practices can cross industry boundaries. Inamori, one of Japan's most successful and well-known entrepreneurs, was asked by the Japanese government to step in to help with JAL's restructuring. As Inamori (pictured) tells Aviation Week, his management techniques have worked just as well in the airline world as in other sectors.

LightSquared, a company that sought to build an advanced 4G telecommunications network, is considering bankruptcy, and several lawmakers are wondering why the Obama administration paid for testing of its system and gave it a waiver to operate in the first place. The tests on LightSquared's network resulted in the determination that it could interfere with GPS receivers.