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The company shocked competitors and impressed the Air Force with a $9.2 billion bid for the next-generation trainer contract, but will it work?

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury and his management colleagues have taken over little over a month ago. Now, weeks before the Paris Air Show, the new leadership team has given first indications on strategy and priorities. What are the key takes? Aviation Week Network editors discuss.

With unprecedented connectivity, airlines are challenged to prioritize the available bandwidth.

Family-owned Maule Aircraft is now supported by its fourth generation.

The service launches a prize challenge in search of payload technologies for a shipboard unmanned aircraft before nailing down an air vehicle design.

Hermeus Mach 5 concept plans to leverage existing high-speed materials and propulsion technology.

Advances in waveform-shifting and digital radars push the Navy to invest in EA-18G modernization.

Air traffic management concepts are being floated for drones, spaceships and UAM vehicles.

Autonomy in an F-16; urban air traffic management; eVTOLs in Paris; Perlan aims for 90,000 ft.; personnel-rescue eVTOLs.

It is time to deliver on the promises made to investors and customers.

KAI hopes to be a “super Tier 1” supplier, acting as a strategic partner to Airbus or Boeing, an integrator of aircraft sections.

An FAA-hosted gathering of regulators helped clarify the agency’s stance on Boeing 737 MAX changes but did not result in a timeline for return to service.

In Europe, manufacturers of business aircraft have to be creative to thrive in an often uncertain market.

Onex’s purchase of WestJet is the biggest private equity deal ever in the airline industry, and part of a potential dramatic turnaround for the once-shunned airline industry.

CHC, PHI and now Bristow’s bankruptcies have led to questions about the sustainability of the industry in its current form.

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

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

In mid-May 1969, only one hurdle remained before NASA would attempt to land astronauts on the Moon: a flight test.

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As Boeing nears finalization of its proposed fix to the 737 MAX since the fleet-wide grounding in March, our editors discuss the ramifications for pilot proficiency, automation and other civil aircraft programs.

The FAA is seeking to restore inter-agency collaboration.

Perhaps the aerospace industry should reconsider banking on Chinese growth—it might have to, and sooner than it thinks.

Korean Air wants its carbon-fiber products cured without autoclaves and integrated in form. The company also wants more automation in assembly.

In 2008, Korea Aerospace Industries studied a T-tail 60-seat regional jet. It is looking at the same size again, but not necessarily a jet.

The billionaire's Blue Origin space company wants to sell human-class lunar landing services to NASA.