Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Steve Trimble
A company known for bombers has set its sights on future air dominance technology, displaying new UAS concepts that hint at larger goals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Joe Anselmo, Steve Trimble, Michael Lavitt
Aviation Week editors witnessed terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and flew on missions guarding the capital. Listen to their stories.
Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
After several cancellations over decades, the Navy’s revived interest in the Joint Air-to-Surface Missile family also reveals pursuit of more capabilities for it.
Missile Defense & Weapons

There are ways to safely restore transatlantic air traffic.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The cargo market proves tempting to eVTOL developers targeting urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

The White House either had bad intelligence about the staying power of the Afghan Armed Forces or ignored it. Either was a colossal mistake.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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

By Guy Norris
Shrinking the high-pressure heart of an engine will make smaller turbofans more efficient than current commercial powerplants.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The booster flew for more than 2 min. despite losing one of four engines.
Commercial Space

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

Readers write about nuclear power in space, Boeing’s Organization Delegation Authorization and unidentified aerial phenomena.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Europe's recommended tighter restrictions for U.S. travelers is a blow to airlines hoping for a long-haul recovery.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

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

By Adrian Schofield
The carrier will emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a plan to reduce widebody aircraft and long-haul routes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Beta’s cockpit philosophy carefully contains the unfamiliar within the familiar.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Beta’s Alia eVTOL hews as close to a conventional fixed-wing aircraft as possible.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
With no ground forces to guide airstrikes, the Pentagon will rely on long-range drones to keep terrorist groups at bay in Afghanistan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Company developing conversion package and will do the modifications in its own facility.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Many technology options and business models vying for early dominance in an emerging market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
Sikorsky, Boeing deliver helo proposal; GE’s second XA100 test; Satellite servicing venture gains steam and South Korean missile test.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
“The question isn’t if but who and at what price?” one industry expert says.
Connected Aerospace

By Steve Trimble
Ten years after heated KC-X competition, the "bridge tanker" renews the bitter rivalry between Airbus and Boeing under eerily familiar conditions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A three-year-old concept for a fully autonomous aircraft is approaching a critical 12-month series of experiments.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kevin Michaels
An effective global COVID-19 vaccine rollout, improved coordination of government travel policies and luck with variants will be needed.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Stratospheric connectivity; Electric in the round ; Australian space expands; Securing green hydrogen; and eBeaver makes progress.
Aerospace