Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Hybrid engines and augmented reality cockpits shape Bell’s vision for the helicopter of the future.
Aerospace

Militants in Iraq and Syria are adapting consumer drones and micro-UAVs for surveillance missions and deadly strikes.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Leonardo tests Gurney flap; Robinson eyes diesel helo; UK extends unmanned helo trials; ArcticShark flies in Oregon.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Clean Sky Tiltrotor will feature tilt wing to boost payload capability, eliminate complexity involved in tilting engines.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

Tracy’s career crossed space, defense and commercial applications, and he was an early proponent of composites.

By Graham Warwick
Shin led efforts to revive NASA’s culture of flight research, embracing risk and learning from doing to address the biggest challenges facing civil aviation.
Aerospace

The companies jointly reintroduced the intuitiveness of flight controls by integrating electronically coupled sidesticks on the G500 and G600 business jets.

By Tony Osborne, Graham Warwick
Leonardo and European researchers have big plans for civil tiltrotors. And new helicopters are coming in the next few years. Listen in as our editors discuss the state of the market and what’s coming next.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Startup LeoLabs to use a global network of ground radars to track orbital debris and provide collision prevention services to operators of LEO satellite constellations.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Human-rated and sensor-carrying stratospheric balloon flight development picks up pace.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Sponsored by Thales
The future of aviation operations lies in the ability to leverage all available data sources in real-time to maximize efficiency and safety, enhancing the industry’s bottom line while improving the passenger experience.
Knowledge Center

By Graham Warwick
Rapid growth in the Ka-band high-throughput satellite market is putting pressure on spectrum. Moving to higher frequencies could unlock more capacity.
Commercial Space

By Kevin Michaels
An import tax could imperil large U.S. aerospace surpluses with China and Mexico.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin broadens HWB possibilities as design focuses on bid for NASA X-plane demonstrator
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Loon surprises Google; biofuels advance; a COW flies; long-distance delivery; and more UAS news
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
Gen. Goldfein says the lack of a fiscal 2017 budget could do more damage than any enemy.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
UPS and delivery-vehicle maker Workhorse demonstrate how truck-launched unmanned aircraft could make package delivery in rural areas more efficient and sustainable.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
A new financing round brings strategic investors, including Airbus and Microsoft, on board a startup that wants to enable safe and efficient large-scale operations for small UAS in low-altitude airspace.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick
Airbus helps yacht race; flying cars on sale; Dubai plans air taxis; Singapore counters drones; Insitu flies Redkite WAMI.
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo
In 1917 Aviation Week’s founding editors issued an urgent warning about the lack of preparedness of the U.S. to fight an air war. Such concerns prompted President Woodrow to take action, resulting in the establishment of NASA Langley.
Defense

NASA, Boeing, United, Honeywell live-test new algorithms that optimize spacing between aircraft, boosting capacity at airports.
Connected Aerospace

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Aviation Week, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and universities recognize these 20 accomplished students in aerospace fields.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Graham Warwick, Michael Bruno
Oxford Performance Materials is making carbon-fiber-reinforced 3-D-printed thermoplastic parts for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner manned spacecraft.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Despite much experimentation over the years, U.S. efforts at hypersonics weaponry have failed to produce an operational system.
Aerospace

By Richard Aboulafia
For the Lockheed/Korea Aerospace Industries team, the advantage is in not having to bury any serious development costs in the bid price.
Aircraft & Propulsion