Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Michael Bruno
While lawmakers always declare the president’s request dead on arrival on Capitol Hill, this year there was more than the usual dismissal by a rival branch of government.
Defense

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

By Steve Trimble
Twelve years after the requirement emerged, the U.S. military finally appears serious about acquiring a light-attack aircraft fleet
Defense

Bombardier’s retreat shows why governments should seed technology development and let industry carry the risk of creating new products.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Stratospheric test flights to come as PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite makes first flight in Australia.
Aerospace

Readers write about the hypersonics race, electromechanical catapult systems, Bombardier management and a conversion correction.

By Guy Norris
Long-running blended wing body studies have so far come to nothing, but Airbus may have the technology to bring it to reality.
Aerospace

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.

By Thierry Dubois
In a breakthrough use of computer vision, Airbus makes swift progress in its autonomous takeoff-and-landing project.
Program Management

By Michael Bruno
Undoing Boeing’s stockpile of roughly 900 grounded, parked and partially built MAXs and recoordinating its supply chain could take years.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Russian Naval aircraft’s first flight; Space Force to integrate MILsatcom; F/A-18s tested in Finland; and Turkey’s armed drone.
Defense

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

By Irene Klotz
The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.
Defense

By Michael Bruno, Jen DiMascio, Graham Warwick
Its decision to shed commercial aviation and rail divisions may not be enough, given the crowded business aviation market.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
A radically modified demonstrator made its first flight in May 2019, but it has come to light only now after video was posted on social media.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Hopes for a sale to Saudi Arabia are out of reach with German arms embargo on Riyadh.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
DARPA fiscal 2019 budget request targets new weapons and communications concepts for contested environments.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force decides to trade-off current capabilities in the near-term to finance next-generation projects.
Defense

By Byron Callan
The GDP and interest rate assumptions on which the budget is predicated are questionable.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
How lawmakers and the administration are responding to the most surprising proposals in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2021 budget request.
Defense

By Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau, Molly McMillin
Widely expected deals to sell train unit and the last of Bombardier’s commercial aero business, still leaves OEM in fragile bizav market.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters CEO says AW609 is on right path, as certification nears.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX tests space tourism waters by signing up with experienced flight services company.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
The Chinese agency has long been vexed by the multiplicity of airlines. The industry crisis has prompted it to propose consolidation.
Air Transport

By Jen DiMascio
Next-Generation Interceptors could be emplaced in the ground by the end of the decade.
Missile Defense & Weapons