Aviation Week & Space Technology

The FAA may not plan to certify the airworthiness of small UAS, but manufacturers need to pay attention to crashworthiness.

Joint program with University of North Dakota is intended to provide more realistic testing of a command-and-control link for civil unmanned aircraft developed by Rockwell Collins and NASA.

Japan’s next-gen turbofan research; cubesats use GPS to forecast weather; Predator UAV sees, and avoids; nano-layering makes better metals; UAS to search for Amazon archaeology

Aviation Week editors talk about what’s ailing Bombardier in commercial and business aviation and its move to bring in aerospace veteran Alain Bellemare to fix things.

From hedging strategies to equipment choices to routes and capacity, the implications of current fuel prices are not as straightforward as one might think.

Delta CEO Richard Anderson’s recent comments about airline subsidies and 9/11 offended his counterparts in the Gulf.

Mark Buongiorno has been appointed head of the F135 military jet engine program at Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut. He succeeds Chris Flynn, who has been named head of quality oversight. Buongiorno was director of domestic and aftermarket business development for the military engines business.

New CEO to focus on program execution and margin improvement as Bombardier moves to increase liquidity and position itself for an uncertain future.

In the future, most astronauts will select themselves, largely on the basis of their ability to buy a ticket.

New program starts are going to be extremely hard-fought and without increased budgets, and extensions of mature lines also may be more difficult.

Seeing an end to its monopoly, ULA turns toward a commercial model.

Obama administration announces long-awaited new export guidelines for military UAVs.

Annual aircraft shipment counts suggest the general aviation market is recovering, but challenges remain.

The U.S. Air Force is having difficulty explaining how a request for $220.5 million for a “red-air” aggressor aircraft got into the fiscal 2016 budget plan for the T-X sent to Congress.

To grow and improve their financial results, LCCs in Japan must expand into competitors’ hub airports and add international services.

An in-depth study underscores the worsening work conditions for LCC crewmembers, especially pilots, in Europe.

The two major airlines in Continental Europe face an uphill battle as they struggle to regain profitability. First up will be persuading employees to agree to more concessions.

Even if India does not meet its requirement for 1,000 new helicopters by 2020, its military will be ordering a vast number of new rotorcraft.

The Southern U.S., with many favorable attributes, continues to attract business aviation manufacturers from Europe and Japan.

ESA’s final ATV mission means Russia’s Progress freighter is the only vehicle left to reboost and ultimately de-orbit the ISS.

NASA’s human-spaceflight chief urges the private sector to start preparing to replace the ISS with a commercial space station.

Because the platform is vulnerable to extreme conditions, SpaceX intends to equip the vessel with additional station-keeping capability.

More than six years in the making, the FAA’s proposed rules for small unmanned aircraft cannot be finalized fast enough for those on either side of the argument over UAS in civil airspace.

Despite interest from a few carriers and lessors, Boeing is still skeptical that launching a new version of the 757 would be justified by market demand.

Hard-won data from 30 years of space shuttle missions can shape the design of next-generation human spacecraft in areas ranging from vehicle reuse to helping crewmembers survive an accident.