Latest Commercial Aviation Content by Aviation Week & Space Technology
Jul 10, 2018
Responding to a court order, the FAA reiterates that its sees no evidence that airline seat dimensions affect safe evacuations.
Jul 09, 2018
PARIS—The mandate of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been widened to include drones and urban air mobility under a new regulation due to come into force in the coming weeks.
Jul 09, 2018
The commercial jet engine in a league of its own. Powered by an industry-first geared architecture — and more than 40 other groundbreaking innovations — the Pratt & Whitney GTF is unlike any engine that’s come before it. Explore the future of flight.
Jul 09, 2018
As Airbus heads to Farnborough Airshow, it faces potentially devastating fallout of a hard Brexit and the challenges of many changes in top leadership.
Jul 09, 2018
The Farnborough Airshow will be buzzing around the digitalization of the aerospace and defense industries. Forget composite materials and Sharklets; think blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Jul 06, 2018
As the 2018 Farnborough Airshow showcases the latest and greatest in aviation and aerospace, we look at some of the technologies shaping the industry’s future.
Jul 06, 2018
The A350-1000 is Airbus' latest widebody and the manufacturer has high hopes the aircraft will be a big sales success. Aviation Week & Space Technology evaluation pilot Tim Wuerfel was given the opportunity to test-fly the aircraft from the company's Toulouse base.
Jul 06, 2018
The aircraft proves easy to fly manually and brings a new level of safety-enhancing automation to the airliner cockpit.