Aviation Week & Space Technology

The country’s space agency is partnering with Google Lunar X-Prize contender Astrobotic for payload delivery.
Space

By Jay Menon
India’s experimental space plane aims to reduce the cost of access to space.
Space

After reinventing the Ariane launcher program to compete with the SpaceX Falcon 9, Airbus tackles rocket reusability plan to compete with recoverable Falcon 9 core stage.
Space

By Jens Flottau
Airbus Group CEO talks with Aviation Week about his company’s future and revisits some triumphs and travails of the past.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Months into his job as Bombardier CEO, Alain Bellemare is focused on meeting current challenges.
Air Transport

Remote towers are a reality in Europe, but it could possibly be years more before they are accepted in the U.S.
Air Transport

Industry weighs benefits of satellite-based landing systems against cost, logistical realities.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Twin-aisle performance at single-aisle costs—that’s the tough task airlines have given Boeing as it studies a next-generation “middle of the market” 757 successor.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Even with massive damage inflicted deliberately, advanced stitched carbon-fiber structure passes NASA tests with flying colors.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
From the triumph of Dassault's Rafale to a renewed U.S. presence, here is what is in store for defense at Le Bourget.
Paris Air Show

By Guy Norris
As the 757 ecoDemonstrator program ends, Boeing studies options for what comes next.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Russia’s low-drag, low-noise airliner; Google undeterred by solar UAV crash; Europe to take down space debris; university research: modeling vortices, deterring birds, quieter honeycomb, sound-wave inspections.
Aerospace

Boeing CEO talks with Aviation Week editors about the state of his company and his legacy.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick, Jens Flottau
Ahead of the Paris air show, our editors interviewed the CEOs of four big aerospace companies: Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer. In the latest
Paris Air Show

Add loiter time to CAS debate; keep Viewpoint exchanges civil; questioning tanker requirement facts; decrying costs of U.S. bombers

By Jens Flottau
Based on enormous backlogs, Airbus and Boeing are ramping up production of key programs. But some analysts begin to warn about overcapacity in major markets that could affect future deliveries.
Paris Air Show

By Adrian Schofield
Transpacific expansion and an extensive airport lounge renovation project are in play at Air New Zealand.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Heathrow managers use simulation to increase airport capacity.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Demand for Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon aircraft grows with orders from the U.S. Navy, India, Australia and, possibly, the Royal Navy.
Defense

Before the RFP was even issued, USAF incurred a possible Procurement Integrity Act violation in the EELV competition.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Investigation finds that software glitch caused three engines of the stricken A400M to idle on takeoff.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
2016 aerospace legislation faces White House hurdle, the ongoing war over Gulf airline subsidies, U.S.-India draw closer on defense and AIA chooses Melcher as new CEO.

COMMERCIAL AVIATION Sierra Nevada Corp. has teamed with Turkish engineering firm STM to restart production of Dornier 328 turboprop and 328Jet regional airliners. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ankara government to build the aircraft in Turkey and develop the 60-70-passenger turboprop TR628 and turbofan-powered TRJ628.

A&D should use production windfall to invest in innovative processes.
Defense

Other countries’ efforts led to more financial stability, technological nimbleness and responsiveness to airspace users.
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