Aerospace

Low-speed wind-tunnel tests confirm handling qualities and powered-lift benefits of unconventional Hybrid Wing Body transport configuration.

Singapore’s submersible UAV; DLR’s unmanned repairman; lightweight allows get a LIFT; AT&T, Intel to connect UAVs; Solar Impulse flying again.

A pilot facility opens in Abu Dhabi to produce biofuel from plants that will clean the effluent from fish and shrimp farms and help make the growth of aquaculture more environmentally and economically viable.

Republicans who served President George W. Bush list some of Trump's scariest national security flaws.

Another attempt to combine high speed with hover agility produces a unique solution combining tandem tiling wings, hybrid turbine-electric power and distributed electric propulsion.

NASA’s X-plane will create the shaped shockwave signature of a 100-120-seat supersonic airliner to enable community testing to determine the public acceptance of low-boom designs

To thrive in high-wage Australia, Boeing’s Melbourne plant must fabricate using advanced processes, such as the resin-infusion, oven-curing technology it applies to 787 work.

Forget your slow-moving DJI Phantom and check out the 80-mph-plus racing drones—they could be a harbinger of a faster unmanned future.

Able to fit on a fingertip, a microchip developed by Singapore’s NTU could revolutionize all-weather radar imaging for small unmanned aircraft and satellites.

Elbit Skylens for tight spaces; Snecma CROR for Europe’s Clean Sky; 3-D UAS Prints On-Demand

New aircraft have come with the fix to the door latches since early 2015; EASA encourages retrofits.

Both plans appear to be extremely bullish for defense, but rapid spending increases may prove difficult for some parts of industry to digest.

Increasing weapons exports; Canada may consider F-35 after all; F-35A operational tests; Minuteman III flies.

GE readies for test runs of its new GE9X, which will be the largest turbofan engine ever produced in terms of physical dimensions.

Pipistrel tests hybrid electric; Russia flies tiltrotor UAV; coatings for smoother flying; Airbus in Singapore delivery-UAV trial; structure says where it hurts.

From battery weight and cost to motor cooling and electric arcing, a long list of issues must be tackled to make electric propulsion a reality for large aircraft.

Rolls-Royce Liberty Works and United Technologies Research Center are assessing whether parallel hybrid turbine-electric propulsion could provide fuel and emissions savings in otherwise conventional single-aisle airliners.

NATS is using historical data to drive out bottlenecks and increase capacity at British airports.

California-based nonprofit R&D organization Aerospace Corp. sees it role as becoming fluent in counter-UAS technologies so it can advise its government clients on their effectiveness.

The radar for the GlobalEye is already running, in rooftop tests at Saab’s Gothenburg site, and the first Global 6000 platform for the UAE is due to arrive in Linkoping soon for modifications.

Saab is proposing a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that it regards as a competitor to Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon, at perhaps two-thirds the price.

The new president faces the critical challenge of steering Pratt’s production system through the largest ramp-up in its peacetime history.

“To be honest, we have got a set of partners on [the geared turbofan] already,” says Pratt President Bob Leduc.

Orders, backlogs and airline results are the building blocks of the current wall of worry for equity investors.

Triton nears production; Spain to buy Reapers; KC-46A refuels F/A-18; and the U.S. is to sell F-16s to Pakistan.