Aviation Week & Space Technology

The U.S. Air Force wants to lease commercial bandwidth to build an agile, resilient communications network for the modern battlefield.

As new eVTOL concepts continue to emerge and others enter flight test, the mainstream helicopter industry is coming to terms with the prospects of an urban air mobility revolution.

The large U.S. helicopter concern Era Group intends to take two AW609s in 2020.

Avic will probably not begin deliveries of its new turboprop before 2022. Fabrication of the first prototype has begun.

DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.

Aiming to build a force of 180 fighters by 2024, Indonesia has ordered Su-35s and is looking for a possible Western combat aircraft contract.

Kopter Group bags biggest order tally at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas, and the market is finally looking up.

Italian carrier Meridiana is rebranding as Air Italy, aiming to compete with growing LCCs and insolvent Alitalia, whose ongoing woes highlight the challenge.

The Falcon 6X retains most of the Falcon 5X’s systems, and Its PW812D engines are new and lighter-weight versions of the PW814GA and PW815GA turbofans.

Bombardier exec talks about C Series plans with Airbus and his take on a potential Boeing-Embraer tie-up.

Portable jamming devices and fixed-site systems that avoid jamming to prevent collateral interference with radio signals are among counterdrone products of interest to early buyers.

Michigan-based Orbion is aiming to fly Hall effect thruster on smallsat in 2019.

Upon merging with American Medical Response, Air Medical Group Holdings will become the largest patient transport operation in the world.

India’s indigenous UAS; L-39NG airframe assembly begins; Italian Air Force’s new Predator training system, and Kratos to upgrade C2 system for Boeing satellites.

The first batch of F-35As will replace Japan’s 51 remaining F-4EJ Kai Phantoms. More could replace some F-15s.

Uber's Director of Aviation Engineering and eVTOL leading light Mark Moore talks with Aviation Week’s Tony Osborne and Guy Norris about the coming revolution in urban air mobility—a key talking point at this year's HAI Helo-Expo convention in Las Vegas.

Boeing has designed a prayer space concept that provides a private zone for religious passengers to practice their beliefs without the need to remove rows of seats.

Megaconstellations of broadband satellites are expected to join flocks of cubesats in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.

TESS expected to find targets for future exoplanet atmospheric studies by James Webb Space Telescope.

HNA’s airlines will become more closely integrated into the Chinese state and be better placed to receive further support in the future, especially subsidies.

Commercial companies are importing dozens of F1s, F-5s and F-16s to meet the Pentagon’s growing demand for aerial combat training services.

As government builds regulations to protect aviation infrastructure, it should work with industry, which is already developing technologies to enhance safety.

The service is readying for a great-power conflict by accelerating development of a next-generation fighter family and redefining battle management.

After a good 2017, major European airlines are planning capacity increases­—but are they biting off more than they can chew?

After fitting a railgun to the bow of a ship, the People’s Liberation Army is pointing to an apparent slowdown in development by the U.S.