Aerospace

The aircraft’s future will be determined by Emirates, not Airbus.

Materials science helps make storing and handling missiles and other rocket-powered munitions safer.

Cubesat-building robot contest, Lockheeds SHiELD laser demo, Uber air taxi trial adds L.A. and Horsefly electric van/drone deliveries.

Lockheed Martin’s radar experts in Syracuse are introducing new air surveillance technologies to counter emerging threats from quadcopters to reentry vehicles.

With the complexity of aerospace systems threatening to overtake the ability of human engineers to optimize designs, bio-inspired algorithms and machine learning are being drafted in to help.

Cadence is applying the latest advances in commercial electronics system design automation to reduce the time and cost involved in replacing obsolete avionics.

NASA’s Advanced Composites program finally comes to grips with the complexities of designing and certifying carbon-fiber aircraft structures.

Industrial augmented-reality startup Upskill launches new platform aimed at enabling large-scale use of smart glasses in manufacturing and maintenance.

Aviation Week flies next step in combat aircraft collision avoidance safety. Photo: Christoper Higgins/U.S. Air Force

Manufacturing technology that places carbon fiber more precisely where there are loads within a structure could enable more slender, flexible wings that are lighter and have less drag.

Trump’s executive order to shore up the defense industrial base and supply chain is a good start but needs to encompass outlets and allies beyond U.S. borders.

Bolt-on helo autonomy; Boeing invests in materials; Israeli cargo UAV uprated; fly/drive truck turns air taxi; looking deep inside engines.

Mutlirotors, tiltwings, tiltrotor, ducted fans—there is no shortage of designs for electric VTOL air taxis, but which are practical and which will dominate the market?

John Griffin, the chief engineer on the B-2 bomber program, discusses the origins and significance of stealth aircraft.

A recent surge in physiological cockpit episodes has led the U.S. military to take a closer look at oxygen systems in combat aircraft.

Lockheed Martin’s X-56A is finally ready to show that potentially destructive flutter of a flexible wing can be actively suppressed, enabling design of more slender, lower-drag airliner wings.

NASA’s Gulfstream III testbeds gather data on landing-gear treatments and trailing-edge flap designs that promise to reduce aircraft noise.

Turboelectric airliner gets closer look; battery test for X-57; Airlander airship eyed for tourism; evolving local drone rules; tacking drone ID; other UAS news

Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 breaks new ground for conventionally powered unmanned aircraft by staying aloft for just over five days.

The service’s new trainer will feature a next-generation ejection seat designed to improve safety for student pilots.

Boeing’s “MAX sandwich,” Comac’s lost opportunity, a boost for bizav and Airbus’s big market gain.

Hoping to have stopped infrastructural degradation, Onera engineers turn to improving wind tunnel.

New generations of fuels can drastically reduce carbon emissions without harming the food supply or the environment.

What the metaphor of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can tell us about the industry’s future.

Lockheed Martin’s long-range cruise missile is being installed on the F-15E, F-16, B-2 and B-52 combat aircraft.