Toughening up GPS; bottle-to-throttle biofuel ready; robot repairs in GEO; autonomous Loyal Wingman wanted; Champ microwave missile puts gloves back on.

Supersonic travel attracts venture capital interest, but is it enough to enable a startup to break into commercial-aircraft manufacturing?

If the MRJ can be sold at 10 a month and prices close to those in the original business plan, the economy of running production facilities at twice the planned rate and at their limit should go far to offset the program’s development overruns.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker says the plan is not to change technology or direction, but to assure steady, long-term financing and move forward with NextGen quickly and decisively.

OEMs are out front now, but several factors indicate their advantages could be short-lived.

British company plans to support remote oil and gas and mining installations with fleet of hybrid airships.

Peter Ireland’s company, Edge Aerodynamix, is about to receive FAA approval for a new type of drag reduction device that seems too good to be true. His job now is to make believers of the airlines.

After years of shunning aerospace as too slow and too expensive, venture capitalists are suddenly interested—and investing. Meanwhile, big aerospace corporations and the U.S. Defense Department are looking to bring “disruptive” commercial thinking in house. Executive Editor Jim Asker, Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno and Graham Warwick, the managing editor for technology, discuss whether the two cultures can ever mix.