Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Jens Flottau
The Sharjah-based low-cost carrier is moving aircraft to its best-performing bases and has seen better results than most competitors.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Washington has glimpsed life after the legacy defense industry, and the potential for change is enormous.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Astroscale’s docking port; Synthetic avgas; Kinetic launch; Next-gen gyroplane; Blood delivery by UAS.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Lakenheath’s first F-35s are slated to arrive in mid-December.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Ben Goldstein
Staffing shortages and chronic delays look likely to extend into 2022.
Airlines & Lessors

By Steve Trimble
Historic partners at odds as Brazilian Air Force seeks to slash Embraer order by 46%.
Dubai Airshow

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

By Steve Trimble
The Dubai Airshow showed how the UAE’s powerful military has attracted intense courting from Russia and the U.S.
Dubai Airshow

By Brian Everstine, Irene Klotz
Test adds more than 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris.
Space

Readers write about satellite technology experiments and engines for unleaded avgas, plus a behind-the-scenes look at the Dubai Airshow.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Airbus and Boeing unveil new freighter product development moves as cargo market continues to surge.
Dubai Airshow

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

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
As the industry manages through diverging near-term trends and challenges, these lessors and other players are positioning for growth.
Dubai Airshow

By Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau
It is almost certain that some years from now, a new A&D behemoth will be born from GE Aviation. But when and how?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Data from five parameters will verify improved MAX AOA sensor system.
Dubai Airshow

By Tony Osborne
The emergence of a UAE-developed air-launched cruise missile provides some insight into the ambitions of the UAE’s weapon’s developers.
Dubai Airshow

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The big hurdle for IAG’s planned purchase of Air Europa is a European competition investigation, but does the deal still make sense?
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Archer, Joby and Lilium together spent almost $132 million in the third quarter on development of their electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick
Flight Safety Foundation also issues 100 risk-reduction recommendations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
To see back to the universe’s first galaxies, engineers had to develop 10 new technologies for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Why the aerospace industry is being affected by supply chain issues but is unlikely to be crippled by them.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been more severe in the Middle East than anywhere else.
Airlines & Lessors

By Brian Everstine
Technologies, data-sharing experiments in Project Convergence 21 to shape U.S. Army’s modernization priorities.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Airbus flies formation; Pipistrel powers Airflow; New Zealand tie-up on debris; Zipline to deliver in U.S.; and green hydrogen supply.
Aircraft & Propulsion