Aviation Week & Space Technology

The stakes are high for Boeing as the Navy looks to make a series of F/A-18 design changes in response to a surge in hypoxia-like episodes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
With the damage and costs of wildfires soaring, Sikorsky has booked orders for up to 15 Firehawk firefighting helicopters in just a few months.
Business Aviation

A navigation system developed by MIT models a drone’s situational uncertainty to help it fly fast in dense, cluttered environments.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
A reduced production rate could help the A400M find export orders.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Testing has shown that drag of the airframe and the thrust-specific fuel consumption of the PW1200G engine are matching targets. There is time for improvement.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Once the new constellation of 66 Iridium Next satellites is in place, Aireon plans to begin providing oceanic surveillance service.
Connected Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Engineers are focusing on the data’s update rate, availability, stability, coverage, latency and position accuracy.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Airbus begins Skyways flights; Singapore creates urban drone zone; Marine squads get quadcopters; BAE tests weapons bays; V-Bat VTOL UAV shows endurance.
Aerospace

By Robert Stallard
Winners in the boosted Pentagon budget are likely to include space, cyber and nuclear weapons.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

The two-year agreement includes overriding budget caps to bring defense and nondefense spending to new highs.
Defense

By Guy Norris
Boeing unveils details of novel new landing gear design as 737-10 reaches firm configuration point.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Company plans ‘hopper’ tech development program for interplanetary spaceship.
Commercial Space

By Jens Flottau
The good news for aircraft manufacturers: high demand; the bad news: supply chain lags.
Air Transport

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

By Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Boeing seems to have a popular concept in the NMA, but offers few clues on if it is any nearer to closing the business case for a widebody at narrowbody prices.
Air Transport

This week, all comments relate to a recent Viewpoint—"The U.S.'s Dangerous New Nuclear Policy"—which elicited a large number of responses.
Feedback

By Jen DiMascio
Boeing foresees Super Hornet sale to India; Switzerland grounds F/A-18s; U.S. green-lights naval weapons sale to Finland, and Turkey’s new Anka-S UAS.
Defense

By Guy Norris
The F-35 is expanding internationally, particularly in the Asia-Pacific where Australia, Japan and South Korea are setting up their first local bases.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
The Low-Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability allows drone operators to fly in pre-approved airspace near airports.
Aerospace

Thomas McCabe
The nation should prepare for an unlikely but not unthinkable possibility—a surprise attack by a modernized Chinese military.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Delivery of a sports car into space is a light touch, but the low-cost, privately developed rocket signals changing times for industry. Photo: John Kraus
Commercial Space

By Bradley Perrett
The C919 delivery objective has slipped again by one year, but Comac is at least publicly disclosing it, which probably indicates a higher level of confidence.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
With tax cuts and market growth fattening balance sheets, industry is busy trying to right the wrongs of its past.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
First unveiled two years ago, the Ehang 184 electric VTOL air taxi is flying passengers in tests of both single- and two-seat versions.
Aerospace

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