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With its latest short-term extension of FAA reauthorization, lawmakers on Capitol Hill gave themselves more time to mull major changes to U.S. aviation policy, such as whether to outsource air traffic management. But too much time also could make things harder.

With shareholders disagreeing over the future of ATR, management opts for incremental aircraft improvements.

Support from the French government and China’s Avic is reinforcing Flying Whales’ confidence that its project will not be another failure in the airship segment.

Airbus A380 doors, cargo airships, communications satellites­ –all are early applications of ultracapacitor energy storage. Next step, more-electric aircraft and directed-energy weapons?

Flying-wing rover for Titan; Airbus inspects by drone; tethered drones get bigger; Thales unveils Fulmar X; small helos to deliver packages?

Adding larger Airbus A321neos represents a slight shift for AirAsia, but underlines confidence in its business model.

New CEOs at top Tier 1 aerospace suppliers Spirit AeroSystems and Triumph Group tackle the competing pressures of meeting high production-rate demands while reducing supply-chain costs.