Latest Commercial Aviation Content by Aviation Week & Space Technology
May 04, 2016
Longtime C Series critic Richard Aboulafia says he might have been wrong about the Canadian jetliner after all.
May 03, 2016
B&CA's Editor-in-Chief William Garvey talks with Rhett Ross, President and CEO of Continental Motors Group
May 03, 2016
Aviation Week pilots documented the progression of jet-powered aircraft in commercial transport with reports appearing as early as a two-part evaluation of the Boeing 707 in 1958. The pilots flew both new aircraft types and derivatives of existing transports, explaining the growth of automation and use of new materials.
May 03, 2016
Just as the horse and buggy as a mode of travel now seems quaint to us, it can be assumed that our progeny will one day regard today’s modes of transportation as antiquated.
May 03, 2016
Emirates President Tim Clark sees government interference as the biggest obstacle to continued growth for the world’s airlines.
May 03, 2016
Chief technology officers from Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon discuss what lies ahead for the industry from multirobotic additive manufacturing, behavioral analytics and distributed propulsion to widespread commercial supersonic flight and fusion power.
May 02, 2016
As part of Aviation Week & Space Technology's special centennial issue, we asked Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan to share his thoughts on the next 100 years of aerospace, and the ingredients required for technological breakthroughs.
May 02, 2016
NASA’s proposed Prandtl-D3 instrumented aerodynamic testbed is attempting to prove the viability of a potentially paradigm-shifting low-drag aerodynamic configuration.