Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
German researchers show compressed air can reduce annoying rotor-stator noise in an advanced turbofan engine.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio, Graham Warwick, Guy Norris, Tony Osborne
Aviation Week editors discuss the news from HeliExpo this week including Bristow's tiltrotor bet, Airbus Helicopters's H160 unveiling and more.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
This year is shaping up to be another period of major change for Air New Zealand as its fleet update gathers momentum.
Air Transport

Production is not keeping pace with record-breaking aircraft orders and somewhere soon down the line, wants and needs are going to collide.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
NoFlyZone.org gives subscribers the means to restrict or prohibit UAS access to private property
Aerospace

By William Garvey
The NextGen Fund maintains that the money and equipment are available to make the general aviation fleet ADS-B compliant, but the time to do so is running out.
Business Aviation

By Jens Flottau
New leadership is in place at Air Berlin, where hopes are high that CEO Stefan Pichler will be able to guide the airline back to profitability after years of decline.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
With a first fight of almost 5 hr., Bombardier’s larger CSeries makes a confident debut in the program that has accelerated in pace after early difficulties.

By Tony Osborne
Bristow and AgustaWestland aim to transform offshore flying operations.
Air Transport

An alert from top United Airlines safety officials is raising concerns about safety culture at the third-largest airline in the U.S. and beyond.
Air Transport

Pilot shortages continue to attract a lot of interest, especially from mainline pilots; Reimpowering local airports to offer affordable pilot training is suggested; Leave it to the law of supply and demand to smooth out the looming pilot shortage, says one reader; Stress levels for pilots of remotely piloted aircraft is weighed; Recommendations to make dual-flight recorders, especially on overwater flights, mandatory; Setting the record straight about the first lifting body sent to space.

Robert Stangarone
CEOs are often unprepared for their myriad challenges. Pressure to consolidate across borders could ratchet up the pressure.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Lawmakers consider removing ATC and modernization from FAA’s list of duties; Pentagon to guard nuclear weapons dollars; and an incoming chairman vows to continue blocking Chinese space cooperation.

U.S. Air Force Space Command took nearly a month to openly acknowledge to the press that one of the country’s oldest satellites fragmented into 43 pieces in orbit last month, creating a debris field.

The winners of Aviation Week's annual Laureate Awards, honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena, were announced at a gala dinner in Washington DC on March 5, 2015.

Aerospace

It’s hard to get a better look at a runway incident than having dozens of steerable electro-optical cameras and millimeter-wave radars trained on the impending action.
Business Aviation

By Richard Aboulafia
Investors loved Boeing’s fourth-quarter 2014 financials, but scratch a little deeper and there’s a serious problem.

By Graham Warwick
Intriguing ideas, some of which could have an eventual impact on the aerospace sector, have emerged from universities worldwide where student teams are competing in Airbus’s “Fly Your Ideas” contest.
Aerospace

Despite recent test failures, Israel hopes to achieve initial operational capability for Arrow anti-missile system in 2016.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
South Korean fighter program progresses with Korean Air Lines/Airbus teaming to bid for KF-X fighter contract.
Defense

R odney A. Makoske has been named senior vice president-corporate engineering, technology and operations, and Dana “Keoki” Jackson vice president/chief technology officer of the Lockheed Martin Corp. , Bethesda, Maryland.

By Guy Norris
Three spacecraft, with a fourth to follow, are exploring frozen worlds that may explain the origin of life on Earth.
Space

Kremlin bloviating notwithstanding, both the U.S. and Russia understand that human-spaceflight cooperation is a buffer against hostility.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Watch Mark Carreau interview NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Terry Virts aboard the International Space Station.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The X4, now called the H160, is Airbus Helicopters’ €1 billion gamble to retake a market long monopolized by AgustaWestland.
Business Aviation