Aviation Week & Space Technology

The new Fujian carrier substantially upgrades its naval aviation and naval warfare tactics.

Using virtual reality to fly a helicopter has money-saving potential.

MQ-1 Gray Eagles can be transferred to Ukrainian forces to help defeat Russia’s Black Sea blockade.

Airbus is struggling with implementing big production increases, as is Boeing, which also faces uncertainty over 737 certifications.

Though not designed for in-space servicing, the James Webb Space Telescope is somewhat fixable from afar.

With commencement of flight tests, Airbus is moving closer to new territory: true long-haul narrowbody services.

Astronomers hope to find the universe’s first lights.

Space remains popular. But everything moves faster in a vacuum, including cash burn.

Trials will measure ability to handle applications such as a long-range artillery shell and a Mach 4 air-launched missile.

From sustainable materials to improved wheelchair access, cabins must be a part of aviation’s reassessment.

GKN’s hydrogen hopes; Dutch zero-emission regional plan; Sceye stratospheric airship; and Amazon Prime delivery drone.

The concept of a winner-take-all battle between the FAA and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for the title of global aviation safety’s “gold standard” regulator is amusing at best, and absurd at worst.

Like many of AOPA’s “Rusty Pilots,” Ted Malone set aside life’s interruptions to return to the wild blue yonder.

Pilot labor is unabashedly leveraging a very real pilot demand/supply imbalance for its benefit.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association offers seminars, a refresher course and services to address needs or concerns of participants.

For new space and advanced air mobility startups, the past two years have been a heady experience of investment, mergers with special purpose acquisition companies and high-risk plays into segments of the aerospace and defense industry that were mere dreams a decade ago. As the economy changes, Aviation Week editors discuss what comes next.

Soaring fuel and fares will test the strength of the recovery—and the consumer.

Swedish startup Heart Aerospace is switching to European CS-25 large-airplane certification of its ES-19 electric regional aircraft, from the CS-23 commuter category, to reduce regulatory risk and expand the potential market.

Norway has canceled its NH90 program and is demanding a refund after struggling with availability of the naval variant.

An interim software fix for the Pegasus is delayed due to errors in the first modified aircraft.

The FAA’s amended type certification process is successful, but agency needs more flexibility to put less focus on cost justifications.

Modeling and 3D-printing advances combine to enable development of high-temperature alloy with lower cost and greater performance.

The pinnacle of aviation manufacturing could be located in the Blue Ridge Mountains and see everything under one roof.

NASA takes on UAP study; Three-way weapon competition; Gray Wolf development slows; AFRL building “virtual range” for directed energy

A trend that was already underway before the pandemic has been given a boost by COVID-19.