Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Israeli UAS certified; hybrid-electric Brazilian; Seastar’s “Mini Me”; Boeing’s big SAF buy; hydrogen aviation in South Korea
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Combat aircraft could be in the cards for Ireland if it decides on defense capabilities comparable with similar-size European nations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Joe Anselmo, Sash Tusa, Jens Flottau, Daniel Williams
Boeing will have to pay a big price if it wants to bring the duopoly back to parity—and suppliers should be worried if it doesn’t.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Looking beyond the omicron wave, European LCCs are anticipating strong summer demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Sikorsky’s S-70A optionally piloted vehicle completes 30-min. mission with no one aboard.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Platform and space tug planned for Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
Royal Air Force picks Falcon 900LX for VIPs; South Korea’s first P-8; F-15J cost estimate; and the U.S. Air Force’s new acquisition boss.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sash Tusa
The European OEM’s backlog is 50% greater than Boeing’s, and its delivery rate is likely to be 50% bigger for at least five years, too.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Among the many challenges facing A&D companies, add this to the list: tidal waves of sick workers.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Piotr Butowski
Ukraine sits inside a ring of Russian fighters, bombers and special mission aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen powertrain iron bird; sea-skimming electric seagliders; UK space sustainability projects; ski resort eSTOL; SAF from microalgae.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Preexisting staffing issues are coming back quickly during a recovery that is faster than anticipated.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
A new 70-page report on the oft-ignored topic of hypersonic defense opens with a first line that neither sugarcoats the scale of the challenge nor wishes it away.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Suppliers will sit between a rock and hard place, as list prices fall and manufacturing costs rise.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Satellite programs are taking the lion’s share of a £1.4 billion investment in the defense space domain.
Space

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Jens Flottau, Michael Bruno
Amid ugly write downs and program woes, Boeing launches a new freighter, cashes in on an Airbus dispute and places a half-billion-dollar bet on the future.
Air Transport

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army is flexing a new high-altitude sensor platform in the skies over Eastern Europe.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Readers write in about curbing contrails and propulsion elements for space launch systems.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
Billionaire investor Eytan Stibbe’s privately funded flight to the ISS is intended to spark Israeli space startups.
Commercial Space

Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

A roundup of upcoming conferences, exhibitions and summits.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jens Flottau
The OEM may sell parts of Premium Aerotec but must convince union IG Metall that the company has better perspectives with new ownership.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
Revised 777X -family plan leverages air cargo boom and seeks to expand 777-8 interest with marginal capacity increase.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein, Lori Ranson
With the worst of the pandemic hopefully behind them, U.S. carriers are resuming their stalled fleet transformation plans.
Airlines & Lessors