Aviation Week & Space Technology

Airborne Wireless Networks’ “Infinitus Super Highway” replaces LEO satellites with aircraft in a mesh communications network to deliver broadband data.

In this week’s roundup: Saudi Arabia on the verge of getting highly advanced F-15s, Russia’s land forces take delivery of an upgraded Buk SAM, Chile buys six S-70i Black Hawks and Russia prepares to export its Alligator helicopter.

Tom Kennedy outlines why he thinks the U.S. Air Force will want the kind of low-risk T-X trainer Raytheon is offering.

Following a two-year application process and a heated debate, NAI’s foreign air carrier permit is finally approved by the U.S. Transportation Department.

Whether hand-launched or high-altitude, unmanned aircraft are turning to solar power to extend endurance for missions such as agricultural surveys and pipeline monitoring, as well as communications and surveillance, which need longer ranges and flight times.

Clean Sky is wrapping up wind-tunnel and full-scale ground tests of a noise-shielding U-tail configuration for future business jets.

A top NASA administrator discusses the U.S. space program at what may be an ‘inflection point’ between the old and the new ways of doing things.

Ambitious efforts to boost Tokyo airports’ capacity will be spur for long-term airline expansion.

A one-time flying boat terminal at LaGuardia Airport will be the U.S. base for a new shared charter service between New York and London.

With its new Global Services unit, Boeing aims to triple its aftermarket revenue to $50 billion within the next decade.

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is hearing that life-support technology remains a question mark in NASA’s exploration plans.

Counter-rotating open-rotor interest falters as replacement aircraft for single-aisle aircraft has been postponed.

Virgin Galactic has begun glide flights of the second—and significantly improved—SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle after completing a fourth and final captive carriage flight under the WhiteKnightTwo mothership.

Elaine Chao, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for Transportation secretary, is the ultimate Beltway veteran, but her positions on current aviation issues are largely a mystery.

GE is also completing key endurance tests of lightweight, heat-resistant ceramic matrix composites that are pivotal to the GE9X meeting performance goals.

UTC Aerospace Systems is expanding its MS-177 "family" to include two hyperspectral configurations with embedded autonomy.

Mods to increase C-17 efficiency; German center funds "virtual aircraft" research; Deutsche Telekom enters drone defense; Gulfstream patents in supersonic work.

Fiscal 2017 U.S. defense budget includes plans to replace Afghan fleet of Mi-17 helicopters.

The latest Chinese air-to-air missile is comparable with a long-range surface-to-air weapon in size and appearance, so its range is probably well over 200 km.

Maintaining U.S. aeronautical leadership—and the high-wage jobs that come with it—will depend on investments made today by Congress and the Trump administration.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, outsourcing business seems suddenly unpopular, lawmakers ask for a flyoff between the F-35 and the A-10 and the head of Trump’s NASA transition team is named.

You don't have to work in aerospace to be a winner of Aviation Week's Photo Contest, but it helps.

Vintage aircraft flying above the clouds, a record-setting skydiving jump and a historic space launch are among this year's Aviation Week Photo Contest winners.

With more outreach to commercial industry and international partners, the U.S. is expanding the ways it approaches defense.

If the German legacy carrier’s pilots don’t compromise on wages or other issues, they may be putting the Lufthansa Group in danger.