Aviation Week & Space Technology

While world attention is focused on Ukraine and Iraq, the nations surrounding the Arctic Circle have been quietly flexing their polar muscle.

Intra-nation tensions related to Ukraine situation and other matters have left space partnerships relatively unscathed

The airline is adding capacity on routes with the most financial upswing

Blue Origin, the startup space company endowed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has generated a fair amount of smoke and fire at its West Texas test site, but very little publicity.

U.S. training schools offer distinctly different approaches to upset training

The nuclear establishment is returning from a long procurement holiday

Following the ISS model, civil space agencies are tapping private partners for spaceflight developments

Oct. 7-9—MRO Europe, Madrid. Nov. 4-6—MRO Asia, Singapore. Nov. 19-20—A&D Programs, Litchfield Park, Arizona. Jan. 13-14—MRO Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Feb. 2-3—MRO Middle East, Dubai. March 5—Laureate Awards, Washington. April 14-16—MRO Americas, Miami. A version of this article appears in the September 29 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.

Oct. 7-9—MRO Europe, Madrid. Nov. 4-6—MRO Asia, Singapore. Nov. 19-20—A&D Programs, Litchfield Park, Arizona. Jan. 13-14—MRO Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Feb. 2-3—MRO Middle East, Dubai. March 5—Laureate Awards, Washington. April 14-16—MRO Americas, Miami. A version of this article appears in the September 29 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.

The Chinese space station is offering a range of opportunities for international coooperation

For Canada’s space sector, a new government, especially one led by the Liberals, would boost the program.

In the wake of MH370, designers work toward securing avionics systems

Kansas plant produces its 10,000th single-engine aircraft.

Airbus is sending military-aircraft engineers to help Aerion with development and certification of its supersonic business jet

The FAA’s new “best practices” manual draws on its 100 years of aviation safety lessons learned

After $79 billion dollars of work and nearly 10 years of operational use without a kill, the stealthy, twin-engine F-22 has finally destroyed its first target in a conflict.

Many industry executives expect some kind of downward correction to demand with a corresponding rise in aircraft cancellations or postponements.

Goal is to form an overarching network of data, each platform a node contributing information to the cloud and downloading from it, even in the heat of battle.

Pilot unions’ demands in Europe could spell the demise of Air France-KLM

U.S. Army ponders whether to develop an all-new advanced rotorcraft or put its workhorse Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk through yet another major upgrade

Through the ups and downs of its 30-year history, Virgin Atlantic Airways has been “amazingly successful” at establishing its brand, Chief Executive Craig Kreeger recently pointed out, although less successful at making money. The carrier’s highest profit was a pretax gain of £99 million ($162 million, at today’s rate) in 1999, Kreeger told The Wall Street Journal this month.

Aviation Week Senior Editor for Avionics and Safety John Croft samples the upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) techniques and aircraft used by the two main global providers, APS and Flight Research.

Aviation Week looks at the laser technology that the European Data Relay System (EDRS) will use to transmit data via geostationary satellites. EDRS aims to provide nearly uninterrupted data links to low-Earth-orbiting spacecraft and allow ground stations that need it most to receive information in near-real time.

We discuss the Pratt & Whitney-powered A320neo first flight this week and what it means for the industry.

Can applique technologies reduce fuel burn across the U.S. Air Force transport fleet?