Aerospace

Changing threat prompting aggressive time lines for British-led sixth-generation combat aircraft.

Subscale testing suggests folding an aircraft’s outer wing sections in flight will improve lateral stability and control and reduce drag.

For 20 years, the Q400 aircraft has helped develop new markets, connect underserved cities, and make safe, reliable air-travel possible even in the world's most remote locations.

Electric motor startup MagniX locates global headquarters and a second engineering center in aviation’s biggest industrial cluster.

Aviation Week Network editors discuss highlights and lowlights at the Farnborough Airshow, including Britain’s future fighter vision: is it a storm in a teacup, or will it really happen?

Reaction Engines is at the Farnborough Airshow with a big push to commercialize the game-changing pre-cooler technology at the heart of its air-breathing Sabre engine.

Boeing NeXt brings together the aerospace giant’s research investments to develop new markets such as on-demand cargo drones, urban air taxis and even hypersonic airliners.

NASA and JAXA flight tests show significant cuts in approach noise through treatments to reduce airframe acoustic emissions.

Environmental group says new supersonic transports will have higher emissions, noise and fuel burn than subsonic airliners—requiring either new engines or new standards.

BlackFly Fixed-Wing eVTOL; Loon and Wing Graduate; Airbus, Singapore Team on Drones; XQ-58A nears flights; Raytheon’s 100-kW laser.

HorizonX enables Boeing to explore the risks and rewards of disruption and avoid the fate of older companies brought down by technology advances.

The hot subject at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propulsion & Energy conference was electrification—of aircraft, spacecraft and even the surface of the Moon.

Many of the innovations changing the aerospace industry are underway right here in Ontario, Canada. Ontario is home a vibrant aerospace industries, supplying parts and components to OEMs and Tier One suppliers worldwide.

Gear-driven compressor concept could enable path to hybrid “eco” upgrade of current-generation turbofan-powered single-aisle airliners.

Can Europe justify two new fighter aircraft? It may have to.

Rethinking the approach to defense mobilization in light of today’s landscape could work to the U.S.’s advantage.

Supersonic airliner developer Boom Technologies has narrowed the choice of candidate powerplants to derivatives of existing low-bypass-ratio turbofans.

Japan’s electric-aircraft consortium; AeroVironment on NASA’s Mars Helicopter; Japan’s private rocket fails; Hypersonic booster contract for Lockheed.

As the 2018 Farnborough Airshow showcases the latest and greatest in aviation and aerospace, we look at some of the technologies shaping the industry’s future.

British expertise in solar-powered HAPS is a direct result of small-satellite sector success.

Airbus helps transform ideas into new companies or new business lines through coaching, a workplace and conditional funding.

Generation Orbit Launch Services has completed the first hot-fire test of a full-scale prototype of its GOLauncher1 (GO1) hypersonic flight-test booster.

Low-boom demo becomes X-59; Facebook grounds high-altitude UAV; Hypersonic testbed fires up; Ultra-endurance UAV advances; Boeing backs Matternet drone deliveries.

The U.S. Army has briefed industry on its plan to conduct a competitive fly-off in 2023 between prototype armed scout rotorcraft.

Aviation Week’s Guy Norris and Graham Warwick have been in Atlanta, Georgia, for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Aviation 2018 conference. They talk about insights from the many panels and presentations and some hidden gems in the exhibition hall.