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U.K.-based Intoware has developed a speech-recognition software called WorkfloPlus that guides techs through performance and reporting of aircraft maintenance tasks in a hand-free manner.

Light-weight, high-performance is king in aerospace and aviation applications. And just as composites and metals like titanium are replacing heavier materials in structures, aerogels may increasingly replace foam and fiber for insulation, according to Shejal Jamdade, senior research analyst for Transparency Market Research (TMR). TMR projects that total aerogel use will grow 15% annually to reach more than $1 billion by 2023, and transportation, including aircraft, will be the fastest-growing market.

Gavin Goudie, operational director at Blue Bear Systems, says that drones will soon assist in automatic damage assessment in his interview with Lee Ann Shay, at MRO Americas in Dallas.

A smaller, lighter vertical stabilizer design using active flow control would reduce weight and drag, saving fuel and lowering emissions.

Automated production and next-generation fiber will improve fiber metal laminate performance and reduce cost.

Many maintenance software companies are adding mobile capabilities to their offerings.

Over the next 20-30 years, when engines will burn at core temperatures of as much as 100 to 200F above what they are today.

High-performance capable oils can cut maintenance costs by reducing coking and component failure.

Boeing has closed out C-17 deliveries and seven decades of aircraft production in Long Beach, California.

What was the purpose of Vanity Fair’s December issue article blasting outsourced maintenance? Is it a propaganda tool?

Revenue-generating numbers touted by OEMs for airliner cabin modifications are not necessarily produced in reality, a senior executive at Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Tigerair cautioned.

Being a low-cost carrier does not mean getting low-cost maintenance, a group of executives with Singapore-based LCCs agreed.

A 1926 letter from the magazine's founder describes the ‘aeronautical celebrities’ who played an important part in the founding of Aviation Week in 1916.

Despite some successes, the A380 faces an uncertain future, and the decision about moving forward with an A380neo will be a difficult one for Airbus.

As Sikorsky looks forward to the pending merger with Lockheed Martin, two advanced rotorcraft programs are progressing at pace.

Before his keynote speech at MRO Europe, Bruce Dickinson discussed what lessons have Dickinson has learned from Iron Maiden Tour and how it applies to MRO.

NASA is moving forward in the real world with studies of concepts for an ascent vehicle to lift humans from the surface of the red planet.

The world’s largest fly-in should be a fun, peacetime party. There’s no need for it to involve the chaos of air combat.

Chapman says he was less constrained by airspace boundaries than he was at the Paris Air Show because there is no nearby airport to Oshkosh that could create a traffic conflict.

This writer, working for Reuters news agency 35 years ago, had bagged a rare flight in an operational B-52. We would “bomb” a bridge, then return home.

On Monday, July 20, Icon Aircraft founder and CEO Kirk Hawkins presented keys to the first production A5 light-sport amphibian aircraft to EAA Young Eagles Chairman Sean D. Tucker and EAA Chairman Jack Pelton at AirVenture.

Quest Kodiak 100 creator Tom Hamilton clearly recalls the summit meeting he attended at Mission Aviation Fellowship’s headquarters in the late 1990s.

Speaking with ATW on the eve of the IATA AGM in Miami, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Director General Andrew Herdman said that 2014 had been “very tough” for the region, with the majors and low-cost carriers struggling alike.

Müller told Aviation Week at the International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting (IATA AGM) in Miami that he expects major progress in that regard within the next five years, as countries continue to liberalize their air service agreements and allow their national carriers to combine forces.

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr suggests that the airline industry should take a close look at how WTO has been dealing with trade disputes in other industries and try to learn from those mechanisms.