Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Michael Bruno
A slew of new-space companies are unveiling strategic changes or acknowledging setbacks. Is it the end or the beginning?
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force and Boeing have a mounting challenge: How to fix the KC-46 at the same time it is needed for operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jens Flottau
Franke has built a profitable empire in the airline industry. One of the reasons: he knows when to stop.
Airlines & Lessors

A.J. Piplica
Startups need small business funds, reprogrammed government dollars and skillful lobbying. Nothing can go wrong.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Aviation Week editors are skeptical of CEO Dave Calhoun’s new commercial airliner timeline.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Airbus opts for an open architecture production system to allow for incremental changes, but integration is delayed at new subsidiaries.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
After buying Rafale fighters, A400Ms and C-130s, the defense minister eyes the purchase of F-15ID fighters and refurbished F-16s.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By William Garvey
How the TFE731 helped launch the business jet era—quietly.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
HyImpulse, Isar Aerospace, Latitude, Maia Space, Orbex, PLD Space, RFA and Skyrora are forming a new ecosystem in space launchers.
Commercial Space

By Ben Goldstein
Shifting marketplace dynamics and a shortage of pilots have rendered proposed contracts obsolete in a matter of months.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jen DiMascio
China’s Pterodactyl; Spirit’s secret production shop to open; U.S. GBSD under pressure; and Pacific military exercises pick up.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The long-awaited wave of European airline consolidation could finally be arriving.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
Sweden’s plans for a rationalization of its helicopter fleet calls for phasing out the NH90 after a troubled career.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Design is beginning on large-scale airframe modification programs that will convert two A380s into flying technology testbeds.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Electric R44 milestone; Hamburg sustainability drive; Autonomous flight progress; eVTOLs for medical delivery; European detect-and-avoid.
Emerging Technologies

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Carole Rickard Hedden, Byron Callan
The industry is looking to digitalization to offset higher prices and workforce challenges.
Defense

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Recreational flights in New York may pave the way for public acceptance of the new technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

Readers write about the AW&ST Aug. 8-28 cover, program management, the AT-802U, Eviation’s Alice and robotic systems to boost Hubble.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Does Boeing risk becoming a value trap, a promising public company suffering stormy days, yet never able to get through them?
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Irene Klotz
Last month Ed Stone retired as Voyager project scientist. The mission still needed a successor.
Space

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
Europe’s aerospace supply chain may have to deal with a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis other regions if energy prices stay elevated.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
TA-0 flight data matched predictions, sets up initial drop test before high-speed flight with first reusable Talon in early 2023.
Missile Defense & Weapons