Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus is gathering clearer ideas on airport needs, but funding has yet to grow.
Emerging Technologies

By P. Barry Butler
Programs are adapting to prepare students to work the advanced air mobility industry as engineers, air traffic controllers, pilots and more.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
U.S.-led training highlights how air operations must change to prepare for a potential conflict in the region.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Piotr Butowski
Arkhip Lyulka Design Bureau is also working on a three-stream sixth-generation fighter engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Tunnel test for Nexus; FAA revamps light sport rules; hybrid-electric for eVTOLs; and SMA power for VerdeGo’s hybrid.
Emerging Technologies

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
The Boeing 777X looks poised to hit the market at the perfect time, but its long-range variant has been a tough sell with airlines.
Check 6

By Christine Boynton
Agreements with pilots at American carriers have made great progress this year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Garrett Reim
Swarming paths could be useful for deep-space scientific missions.
Space

By Angus Batey
The UK Defense Ministry signs an RTX contract extension for 1,000 Landshield anti-jamming antennas.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By William Garvey
Air Tractor’s AT-802F, which can be fitted with scooper floats, has proven to be robust and cost-effective at suppressing wildfires.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory space camera is inspired by a hunting dragonfly.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Characterized as a serious incident, the near collision between a business jet and a commercial aircraft resulted in a minimal vertical separation of 665 ft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Matthew Fulco, Chen Chuanren
Thailand treads a delicate balance between an old alliance with the U.S. and recent closer ties to China.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The service seeks shift from one-for-one replacement of KC-135s and C-17s to a series of aircraft, from the basic to the exquisite.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois, Christine Boynton
As a warmer climate means more energy in the atmosphere, turbulence can be expected to grow.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
NATO’s largest exercise took over European skies ahead of a new funding pledge at the leaders’ summit.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
The two are in harmony on development of a communications network based on a multiorbit, multiband architecture.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Solar UAV flies stratospheric; HAPS motor test; electric regional ground demo; and agile eVTOL.
Emerging Technologies

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

David Hughes
The author of our January 1990 article about the December 1989 invasion of Panama corrects one error just found by a paratrooper participant in the operation.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Moratorium on space passenger safety regulations is poised to end Oct. 1.
Commercial Space

Readers write about politics and free speech in Feedback, aspiring aerospace industry employees, the U.S. F-22 successor and engine dust problems.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jens Flottau
Airline consolidation is gaining traction in Europe: Air Europa and TAP Air Portugal are next in line to be acquired.
Airlines & Lessors