Just as the horse and buggy as a mode of travel now seems quaint to us, it can be assumed that our progeny will one day regard today’s modes of transportation as antiquated.
As part of our 100 years of Aviation Week celebration, we asked former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin what he would say to our next president about advancing U.S. science and technology in the next 100 years.
As part of Aviation Week & Space Technology's special centennial issue, we asked Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan to share his thoughts on the next 100 years of aerospace, and the ingredients required for technological breakthroughs.
NASA’s proposed Prandtl-D3 instrumented aerodynamic testbed is attempting to prove the viability of a potentially paradigm-shifting low-drag aerodynamic configuration.
New technique for producing printed circuit boards may help overcome the physical limitations that conventional manufacturing is running into as more components are crammed onto a small space.
On May 2, engineers will begin occupying the Boeing’s enormous new 777X composite wing center, marking a key milestone toward the start of assembly of the company’s new flagship large twinjet.
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Reasons for the decline in pilot numbers include retirement age and dismally low salaries, but organizations such as AOPA and GAMA are offering some solutions to help boost private pilot numbers.
Thales Alenia Space is leading development of Stratobus, a high-altitude platform that could perform many of the same functions of telecommunications and remote-sensing satellites, but closer to Earth.
There’s a renaissance in spaceflight innovation, but a leap is needed for it to reach the financial tipping point and close the business case for the off-planet economy.
Brussels Airlines CEO Bernard Gustin: “We are more than ever assuming the role of Belgium’s national carrier, but we’re not government owned and we are not a legacy, old-style airline. We’re a successful hybrid.”
California Polytechnic—and a Florida high school—are working together to test a cubesat specifically designed as part of an experiment to wirelessly transmit payload data from launch to deployment.
