Latest Commercial Aviation Content by Aviation Week & Space Technology
Nov 27, 2017
The aerospace industry lacks adequate policy to manage risks. Efforts show that strides are being made, however.
Nov 27, 2017
Aircraft lighting influences birdstrikes, Facebook and Airbus team to advance stratospheric UAVs, Boeing backs new MIT wind tunnel, NASA supercomputers unlock flow secrets, and TsAGI’s air-cushion amphibian for the Arctic.
Nov 24, 2017
Boeing subsidiary Insitu says that working proactively with regulators is key to enabling routine commercial beyond-visual-line-of-sight UAS operations.
Nov 24, 2017
An optimally located Chinese freight airport should open in 2020 and move 2.45 million metric tons of cargo by 2025. SF Express will be the anchor tenant.
Nov 23, 2017
Manchester cements its place as the UK's third busiest airport, behind London's Heathrow and Gatwick. Once seen as a regional airport, it now offers many long-haul destinations as well as its well-established domestic and regional routes.
Nov 23, 2017
Hawaiian CEO Mark Dunkerley is retiring after 15 years in leadership roles, although his successor Peter Ingram stresses there will be no change in direction.
Nov 23, 2017
U.S. startup’s plans to certify a nine-seat battery-powered regional aircraft by 2020 are based on modifying an already certified turboprop.
Nov 23, 2017
Conglomerates are prime targets because they have disparate business units—some with unrealized value—as well as redundant cost structures and excess fat.