Aerospace

Advanced Turboprop rebranding and certification test phase mark key milestones in GE’s strategic push into growing turboprop market.

Containerized cargo aircraft, swarm threat growing, 5G could track drones, triple-hybrid propulsion, and VTOL UAS hunt for fires.

Owned by Google co-founder Larry Page, Kitty Hawk has taken a leading position in the emerging eVTOLl air taxi market by flying full-scale prototypes. Photo: Kitty Hawk

BAE Systems is developing software to enable teams of manned and unmanned aircraft to share a common mission picture and exchange vital information despite jamming.

Helicopter manufacturers believe tail-rotor-electrification technology is better used on new-build models.

The FAA is close to releasing proposed rulemaking for remote identification and tracking of unmanned aircraft as a crucial next step in airspace integration.

Advanced turbulence detection, collision avoidance and precision landing systems among 35 technologies to be tested in fifth Boeing EcoDemonstrator program.

The process of exiting the EU is destabilizing the struggling industry and exacerbating budgetary uncertainties.

Adaptive flight control progresses, Audi joins eVTOL study, Swiss team advances electric propulsion, Marines test resupply hive, and Ford researches UAS.

Chairman and CEO of Aurora Flight Sciences, Dr. John S. Langford, was awarded the Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award at Aviation Week's 61st annual Laureate Awards at the National Building Museum in Washington on March 1, 2018.

Air navigation service providers increasingly are becoming involved in drone traffic management and remote-tower operations.

Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.

The Aerospace & Defense industry consists of a complex web of buyers and suppliers. The days are long gone when low-tech, manual processes could keep track of all orders, inventory, compliance certificates, invoices, delays, and supplier performance data.

Rivals’ progress makes it clear that, 60 years on, DARPA should not ease off on its task of preventing technological surprise, and creating its own.

A growing number of systems is available to counter small unmanned aircraft, but few if any are designed to repel an attack by a swarm of drones.

The General Dynamics’ purchase of CRSA confirms that larger scale matters in federal IT services.

DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.

As new eVTOL concepts continue to emerge and others enter flight test, the mainstream helicopter industry is coming to terms with the prospects of an urban air mobility revolution.

Portable jamming devices and fixed-site systems that avoid jamming to prevent collateral interference with radio signals are among counterdrone products of interest to early buyers.

As government builds regulations to protect aviation infrastructure, it should work with industry, which is already developing technologies to enhance safety.

Suburban drone delivery, turbine power for UAVs, automating track inspection, wind-resistant quadrotors and rolling composite parts.

Israeli startup Eviation has selected Kokam to supply batteries to power a nine-passenger, all-electric regional aircraft, to fly by early 2019.

Large commercial unmanned aircraft for cargo and passengers are closer than people believe, argues new report from U.S. trade body the AIA, and regulators need to start getting ready.

Funding requests on multiple budget lines for fiscal 2019 show how the U.S. Defense Department is moving to boost investment in hypersonic weapons and defenses.

Voom on-demand helicopter service becomes a subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters as CityAirbus eVTOL urban air taxi takes shape.