Aviation Week & Space Technology

Stephen D. Van Beek, Ph.D.
Political and aviation leaders are expressing support for changing the way we organize, fund and deliver the services and infrastructure so vital to our aviation system.
Air Transport

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s April visit to Airbus’s French facilities, the company said it is prepared to boost co-production of civil and military equipment in India.
Defense

By Steven Grundman
Robert Work: Impetus for new “offset strategy” is an urgent concern about “a steady erosion of our technological superiority that we have relied upon for so long in all our defense strategies.”
Defense

By Jay Menon
Less than two days after India agreed to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets in flyaway condition, India’s defense minister signals plan to abandon larger deal.
Defense

Despite tensions, U.S. and Russia are still cooperating in civil space. Now it’s time to bring China into the fold.
Space

The company is striving to keep average cost of a new Vulcan rocket under $100 million as it preps for competition against SpaceX.
Space

Asteroid-mission development will shape human/machine teaming for exploration.
Space

Star Wars lasers were intended to hit things that missiles could not touch. The new generation exploits different characteristics.
Defense

Health-monitoring and ‘big data’ could transform maintenance. Airlines are expecting big savings, so MROs better be ready.
MRO

By Guy Norris
Preparations are underway to begin testing a small-sat launcher dubbed Electron that would use the turbomachinery and other innovations to hold the cost per mission below $5 million.
Space

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay Pacific is well-positioned for rebounding cargo markets, using its Hong Kong hub and new fleet types to improve connectivity and efficiency.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
New Hong Kong cargo terminal gives Cathy Pacific greater capacity and improved competitive position in the Asian cargo market
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay Pacific is relying on a broad array of strategic advantages to defend itself against LCCs and other competitive threats.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
There have been a handful of events that can be linked to pilots intentionally crashing aircraft. But that’s in hundreds of millions of flights since the late 1990s.
Air Transport

The U.S. Air Force claims the new LISC deal could save up to $1.8 billion over 10 years, although skeptics question how.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
France takes aim at drones over nuclear plants; turbine engine promise more reliable UAVs; how to make software systems last 100 years; Google’s kite captures wind energy; FAA’s commercial UAS approvals accelerate
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Unlike GE, Pratt & Whitney using ceramic matrix composites for rotating engine elements rather than static parts
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
Chinese business jet orders appear to be tracing out the beginnings of a curve that looks like a bathtub.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Suppliers join cost-sharing effort on an advanced-rotorcraft demonstration program that is critical to the future health of the U.S. rotary-wing industry.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Ahead of next week's Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, our editors discuss the latest on an American-built engine to send U.S. national security assets to space, competition between ULA and Space X, the state of U.S.-Russian relations and more.
Space

May 4—Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Unmanned Systems 2015. Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. See www.auvsi.org/events1/eventdescription/?CalendarEventKey=4b6a54a9-2072-… May 6—American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala. Washington. See www.aiaa.org/gala2015

May 5-6—MRO Baltics, Budapest, Hungary. June 17—Commercial Aerospace Manufacturing Briefing, Paris. Oct. 13-15—MRO Europe, London. Nov. 3-5—MRO Asia, Singapore. Nov. 3-5—Aerospace Defense Chain, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Reader requests cost-comparison chart of A-10 vs. other platforms; Germanwings disaster prompts many security suggestions—two different ways to secure cockpit doors are discussed.

By Tony Osborne
FedEx latest acquisition—TNT Expresss expands U.S. freight company’s European footprint
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Airpower from across the Middle East deploys to Saudi Arabia to support operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Defense